Linda Nanuwil Denies Relationship With Datuk Masidi Manjum

July 28th 2006 09:32 pm

Linda Nanuwil continues to be an elusive butterfly but the Akaedmi Fantasia star has made a plea to fans through her fan club website not to believe any rumour that she has married a Sabah minister.

“Please, please, please (I am begging here) do not believe what you have heard unless you had witnessed it with your own eyes.

“What you heard did not come from me or my family, so please ignore the stories,” she said in a message posted on www.luvs-linda.com.

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Linda Nanuwil with bad makeup

The Internet may be the easiest way to relay a message but it certainly isn’t the most effective. Until Linda Nanuwil comes out in public to deny everything, the rumours are going to get wilder and wilder.

The third-placed winner of the Akademi’s second season admitted that she had heard all sorts of stories about her – the good ones as well as the gossips about her marrying a Datuk, that she was pregnant and hiding in Brunei – just because she had been out of the music scene for a while.

On Wednesday, state Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Masidi Manjum came out publicly to deny that he had married her.

The 56-year-old father of five said he received a lot of calls from friends asking about the rumours, which he flatly denied.

Masidi, who hails from the same Kadazandusun district of Ranau, at the foothills of Mount Kinabalu, is chief of the Ranau Umno division, of which Linda is a Puteri Umno member.

Well, if she’s not pregnant or anything then why is she hiding? It’s only fair to explain to her fans in public. Instead she is ducking questions, embroilling herself with denials and still hasn’t tendered a believable explanation.

Yesterday, her father, Nanuwil Galida, invited The Star to their home to talk to Linda while he was at a nearby fishpond.

However, when The Star turned up at their modest brick house at Kampung Tundangan, Linda was not home. Nanuwil apologised, saying she had gone out with some cousins.

“I’m sorry I cannot contact her now and I’m not sure when she will be back,” he said, explaining that Linda had been staying with him for several days after she came back from Kuala Lumpur.

He said the gossips had made her cry, adding that she was also in tears when she read in the papers about Masidi’s denial.

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So she shed tears over Masidi’s denial? Now doesn’t that sum everything up pretty much? I love Malaysian newspapers.

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