Faith and Tik Tok

Premier Gospel’s Cassandra Maria spoke to actor, presenter, comedian and social media sensation Coco Sarel about her rise to fame and her faith in God

Cassandra Maria (CM): How did you get into TikTok, and what did you do before?

Coco Sarel (CS): I trained as an actor at university and I was working as a jobbing actor before focusing on social media.

I started making content because of the pandemic. My little sister convinced me to get TikTok, and my friends were also saying: “There’s really funny content on there.” So, I was like: “You know what, I’ll give it a go,” mainly to connect with my sister. She’d come in with all these new TikTok dances. I’d be like: “Let me learn some moves and all that fun stuff.” I had thought I was too old for TikTok, but that quickly changed. It’s like a vacuum; it consumes you. Scrolling through, I saw people talk about stuff that I thought: “Oh, I have an opinion on that.”