Host Of 'Inside Out', Agatha Amata Is Set To Retire As Talk Show Clocks 20

Founder and presenter of 'Inside Out', Agatha Nwakalor Amata is set to step aside as host of her popular TV show, ' Inside-Out with Agatha', Nigeria’s longest running independent television talk show as it clocks 20 this year. 


Launched in 1997, ‘Inside Out With Agatha’ became a success with the help of Nollywood legends like Kingsley Ogoro, Tade Ogidan, Chico Ejiro and Fred Amata who oversaw the first edition of the show.

Agatha, who was then married to Fred Amata, revealed that in the beginning, she worked without a script, simply told stories of people who wanted to share them on national TV, and soon, the show became a household name.

But the icon is set to step aside for a new face, and to achieve this, she has kicked off 'The Search', calling for interested people to come audition for the spot.

 She said, “I felt it was time to step down for the younger generation, and I didn’t want to be in their way, 20 years is a long time, its time to retire for a younger one with passion to taking over, trust me when I say inside out is not about Agatha, but about passion and the people.”

The selection for a new face is being handled like a proper reality TV show and will see the top 20 candidates out of the 500 who applied, stay in a house for 6 weeks.

They will be assigned tasks, evictions will be made, before a winner finally emerges.

 Agatha will wrap the productions on 4th of August, 2017, and then she will spend the next 2 years, grooming the winner of 'The Search', before eventually stepping away from the scree