{"id":7324,"date":"2017-07-03T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2017-07-03T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:46:46","slug":"5-things-larry-madowo-revealed-friday-night-left-trend-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/5-things-larry-madowo-revealed-friday-night-left-trend-good\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things Larry Madowo revealed on Friday night before he left the Trend for good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Madowo held his last show on the Trend on Friday June 30th<\/sup> 2017. It was the longest show ever as it aired until 1.32am, July 1st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Larry\u2019s \u2018goodbye\u2019 show on the Trend was a show like no other, he hosted the likes of Jidenna, Janet Mbugua, Sauti Sol, Bebe Cool, Nameless, Edith Kimani, Boniface Mwangi, Willy Paul, Muthoni Drummer Queen etc on\u00a0 a single night.<\/p>\n

In his parting shot, Larry revealed 5 things about Trend and himself:<\/p>\n

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  1. He joined the Trend by accident<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cAfter James Smart left, Smriti Vidyarthi was doing the show and when I rejoined NTV in December 2012 \u2013 what I like to call my second coming, Smriti was away one week and I was as yet anchoring the news, I was not on a regular schedule. So I offered to do the show that one time and she never took the show back because she didn\u2019t doing it because at the time the Trend was a political and current affairs show,\u201d Larry said.<\/p>\n

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    1. The Trend was shaped by Larry\u2019s personality and the audience\u2019s feedback<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u201cIt (the Trend) was shaped by my personality and interest of the team as it was influenced by so many of you who watched and reached out to us with your comments, ideas and criticisms \u2013 they made the show better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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      1. Larry\u2019s bosses don\u2019t watch the Trend<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \u201cWe never took ourselves seriously obviously\u2026 and I have always said that we are only on air because our bosses don\u2019t watch, none of them are watching the show because they are all asleep at this time. And because of that we failed upwards and gave us an extra hour at 8pm to showcase more of our nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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        1. Larry was totally shocked when the Trend became most watched entertainment show in Kenya<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \u201cI only moved to Nairobi permanently in 2004, so it was a total shock to me that I occupied this place in the culture where I could be a taste maker and super fan of all the guest we\u2019ve welcomed here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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          1. The Trend is the greatest success for Larry Madowo<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \u201cI used to worry if I was cool enough, if people would ever accept me, if they would learn to pronounce my sir name right and would I ever amount to anything. And yet this is far greater than anything I could have imagined. It was all because of you the viewers who have made this undertaking worthwhile. I assembled possibly the youngest and hungriest team on television and they turned this into magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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