Monday, October 16, 2017

Mzansi Magic: Sorry Babes, no reality TV show; pours cold water on Qqom Queen's claims of a reality series.


Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) is pouring cold water over the Qqom Queen’s claim of having a reality show on the channel, telling TVwithThinus it's not doing a reality TV series with Babes Wodumo.

The 23-year old Durbanite who keeps bumbling from the one awkward public embarrassment to the next, told the Sunday Tribune yesterday that she has a reality show on M-Net’s Mzansi Magic channel with cameras that will start rolling next week to catch her all her glam and qqom.

Reality TV show projects from high-profile South African female stars like Bonang Matheba and Minnie Dlamini caught a lot of buzz and headlines the past few months and Babes apparently now wants in on it too.

"Viewers will see that I am not fake," Babes Womdumo told the Sunday Tribune who earlier this year partied while she was supposed to apply for an American visa under her real name of Bongekile Simelane.

Babes Wodumo was supposed to apply for an American visa in person to attend the BET Awards in America in June, but did interviews and attended parties like the sendoff party from the eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede using taxpayers’ money. Babes ended up unable to go.

Recently Babes Wodumo implored the South African public to help her search for her missing USB that according to her carried the link to a new song.

The pay-TV broadcaster dispelled Babes Wodumo's claims of a reality show on Mzansi Magic that’s supposed to start broadcasting in November on the channel that’s carried on MultiChoice’s DStv satellite pay-TV platform.

"We do not have a programme that has been commissioned regarding Babes Wodumo," Nondumiso Mabece, M-Net’s head of publicity for local entertainment channels, told TVwithThinus.

“We have seen a number of reality show proposals centered around various personalities including Babes Wodumo but we do not have a commissioned programme.”

Babes has now been nominated for the MTV European Awards 2017 in the Best Africa act category.

The 24th edition of this awards show will take place in London on 12 November and will be broadcast on MTV (DStv 130). For Babes Wodumo this means travelling to the United Kingdom, a country for which South Africans need a separate visa.

Babes Wodumo said "I will definitely be attending the MTV awards. I have sorted out the visa. I am going".