Mona Gucci

Monalisa Abigail Semeha, known as Mona Gucci, is a Ghanaian television presenter and entertainment executive. She hosts Biribi Gyegye Wo on Onua TV and is known for blunt commentary on celebrities, which has brought her both a large audience and several public quarrels.

Background

She was born on 31 January 1988 in Kpando Fesi in the Volta Region, the fourth of five children, and grew up in the military barracks at Burma Camp, Accra. She finished Labone Secondary School in 2002 and studied at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. She later lived in the United States, where in 2015 she set up MonaPhil Entertainment and spent four years in Austin, Texas. She says she holds a law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, a school that is not accredited by the American Bar Association.

Television

Back in Ghana she hosted Link Up on Kantanka TV. She resigned after an on-air exchange with Afia Schwarzenegger that also drew in the station's owners, and joined Media General, where she hosts Biribi Gyegye Wo on Onua TV. In 2021 she won Female Entertainment Show Host of the Year at the Ghana Entertainment Choice Awards.

Court case

In May 2020 she posted a list of female celebrities she labelled "slay queens". The actress Yvonne Nelson sued for defamation, and the court awarded Nelson GH₵500,000 in damages and barred Mona Gucci from further defamatory publications about her. Reports said Mona Gucci did not appear in court.

Family

She is unmarried and has a son, Jaden, who plays basketball.