Guiness World Records Chef for the longest cooking hours ever opens up on long, rough road to fame
Celebrated Nigerian record-breaking chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, otherwise known as Hilda Baci, has revealed the rough roads she walked before finally achieving fame, including auditioning and failing to appear in BBNaija reality TV show.
“I actually tried to get on Big Brother Naija for a while. I think I auditioned about four or five times,” she declared in an interview monitored by Platforms Africa.
The Guinness World Record (GWR) holder for the longest cooking hours had the interview on Cool FM’s ‘The Big Friday Show,’ hosted by reality TV star Tacha.p
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“The plan for the cook-a-thorn was still in the pipeline, so my goal was to go to Big Brother and then come out and do the cook-a-thorn,” she declared.
It was also a day the Nigerian sensation, who clocked 100-hours of cooking in one instance, though with officially-recorded 93 hours 11 minutes, by the owners of the award, revealed her sentiments over the attempt made by another Nigerian in the name of Chef Dammy to surpass her by achieving 120 hours.
Shortly after her feat, which was celebrated by Nigerians across the world including then President Muhammadu Buhari, the student of Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), real name Damilola Adeparusi, launched her own campaign in June setting a 120-hour even when the GWR, was yet to recognise the new record.
Even against the debates that ensued on the propriety of the fresh attempt, the 26-year-old, said: “At the time she was attempting the record, we were still trying to submit evidence so in truth, the major focus was what was happening on social media. A few days before, we had received a mail from Guinness requesting evidence, and my focus then was gathering the evidence and submitting it to Guinness World Records. I wasn’t thinking too much about Dammy. Social media brought it to my consciousness.”
