Actress and socialite, Rosemond Brown, often referred to as Akuapem Poloo, has disclosed that in the early days of her career, she used to pay people to insult her on social media just to get attention.
In an interview on Joy Prime TV on July 23, 2025, Poloo explained that when she first ventured into the showbiz scene, there was very little media interest in her.
According to her, nobody was talking about her or inviting her for interviews, so she decided to take matters into her own hands and create a buzz around herself.
Poloo said that after she managed to create a buzz around herself, her popularity grew, and she started receiving attention from the media and offers from musicians.
She stated that musicians then started to pay her to twerk to their songs on social media, and that helped her financially.
She mentioned Ghanaian musician Fameye as one of the artistes who paid her GH¢5,000 to twerk in social media videos to promote his song.
At first when I started, I was paying for people to insult me for about a year. Ive been in the game and no one calls me and I was not getting anything but after that people were calling me for interviews, skin care deals. Stars would call me to dance or twerk on their songs and they would pay me. Even Fameye was giving me GH¢5000 to twerk on his song, she said.
Speaking about her early acting days, Akuapem Poloo said the money was very little.
She recalled being paid as low as GH¢20 for roles, except for her work with GBCs Obra series where she was treated better, thanks to veteran actress Maame Dokono.
As for the acting, GH¢20, with GBC they were giving me something better because of legendary Maame Dokono, so she was taking good care of us but with the others it was GH¢20, she said.