Moment Timini Knelt for 'Box Office Queen' Funke Akindele to Bless Him, What She Said (VIDEO)

Nigerian actor and now producer Timini Egbuson is currently hard at work promoting his movie Reel Love which will be opening in cinemas nationwide starting on the 14th of February. In anticipation of the movie's release, Timini has been hard at work doing promotional content and this week attended the movie premiere of the movie where other stars like Bimbo Ademoye, his sister Dakore Akande, Funke Akindele, and more were in attendance.

In one of the event's highlight moments, Timini got on his knees and begged reigning box office queen Funke Akindele to pray for him and bless him, especially after her latest movie Everybody Loves Jenifa just shattered box office records. Here is the moment, and what Funke Akindele said during the event.

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After Timini Egbuson got on his knees and said to Funke Akindele "Box office queen, box office queen ha! In fact, please let me kneel down for you. I want the prayer, I want the prayer. Give me the prayer please!" Funke laughed and responded to Timini saying:

FUNKE AKINDELE: Timini stop it! Get up. It's a sold out already.

She then turned to the audience and said:

FUNKE AKINDELE: Good evening, everyone. I must say this is a proud moment for me. Watching this film, smiling, clapping, shouting all through. For my son, my brother, my friend, Timini Egbuson, it's truly a proud moment for me. I wanna say something quickly. Go and write it down. Kayode Kasum is the best director. Go and write it down, Kayode Kasum is the best director. Go and write it. Check out the lighting in this film. Check out the shots, the angles. The art director. Well done! Well done, well done, well done. Please go out to watch Reel Love. Support my boo, my friend, my brother that left his home to support Everybody Loves Jenifa. This film must sold out oh!

Here is the moment as captured on video:

Reacting to the moment, somebody said "Aunty funky name should be changed to GRACE I swear" while another said "Sold out by his grace" What do you think of this moment?

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