Considered the state’s star witnesses at the time, the brother’s both delivered in-depth testimonies that laid bare the plot, leading to the actor’s conviction in December 2021\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Considered the state’s star witnesses at the time, the brother’s both delivered in-depth testimonies that laid bare the plot, leading to\u00a0the actor’s conviction in\u00a0December 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smollett, a gay man who alleged his attackers were a pair of MAGA hat-clad white supremacists, has since\u00a0vehemently denied the charges, even after serving six days of an agreed-upon 150 sentence\u00a0in a Chicago jail.<\/span>\u00a0The Illinois Appellate Court ordered a stay on his sentence last March, as he sought an appeal of his conviction.<\/p>\n

The brothers recalled how after carrying out the attack they\u00a0flew to Nigeria – in part to audition for the Nigerian version of Big Brother – and pondered whether they put on a believable performance that Smollett would have approved of.<\/p>\n

‘We were the ones that did it,’ Ambiola, 31, says in one clip, seated next to his brother.<\/p>\n

‘We was in character the whole time,’\u00a0Olabinjo agreed, after being asked by one of the interviewers if the duo had served as ‘believable white supremacists’ – with the obvious elephant in the room being the statuesque brothers’ skin color.<\/p>\n

The pair appears to quickly share a glance before Ambiola, feigning surprise as if the inquiry had called his acting chops into question, proudly asserts: ‘100 percent.’<\/p>\n

The five-part series featured interviews with Chicago detectives who were called to investigate the case, and how they secretly discerned that despite Smollett’s account of the January 29, 2019, the actor’s supposed assailants had been black.<\/p>\n

After just three days of probing the incident, cops began to hone in on the brothers – and subsequently suspected that Smollett’s hate crime claims were, in fact, bogus.<\/p>\n