Betty Kyalo opens up about not coming back to the small screen anytime soon.
Media personality Betty Kyalo has opened up about the reason why she may not return to television anytime soon. The former KTN news anchor revealed in a recent interview that she currently wants to focus on her business.
“I feel like the break I took after I resigned was very important. It has really helped me to hustle hard and I don’t take anything for granted. That move taught me how to be self-reliant and being able to handle myself,” said Betty. She went on to add that, “Most of us love to be employed and be under the cushion of a salary. But when the salary is removed then it becomes difficult to survive. I won’t be back on screen now maybe later, I love being on air and it’s my first love. For now, I’m seeing what I will do if I go back, I just don’t want to go back and do the same thing, I feel there is so much I want to do other than reading news.”
The sassy former news anchor also explained how intimidating it was working for KTN for she felt as though she wasn’t good enough. “A lot of time I felt like I wasn’t good enough especially the first years when I was on TV, I was a colleague to people who were doing so well, the likes of Cynthia Nyamai and Beatrice Marshall in the newsroom, I always felt
intimidated. Sometimes I would go on air and shrub and not ask the right questions to politicians, many times I would go home feeling so bad. It used to be really hard but somehow it happened and now we are here, I am happy I gave myself a chance.”
Just a few months ago, Betty was riding high on television, bringing news to people’s living rooms in her signature fashion, and wowing her fans and haters. Betty Kyalo, described by some as the drama queen of TV industry, was slowly becoming the real queen of TV in Kenya by blending flamboyance and a simple personality while at KTN and her latest engagement on K24 television.
Kyalo’s exit was somehow expected considering the TV station’s parent company MediaMax Network Limited had been struggling financially and was set to lay off staff for the second time in six months. Kyalo’s exit also came at a time a group of employees at the company moved to court following a payment row with the management over a planned 50 percent
pay-cut as a way of mitigating the coronavirus pandemic.
This article was wrtten by Josephine Njoroge.
