Insider says SABC3's cheater Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe is not the man he appears to be on TV, allegedly kissed Lay's Chips competition winner in Ukraine that led to hotel sex.

In new revelations a close confidant of Monique Muller says that away from the cheerful morning TV persona that Katlego Maboe presents to the world, there is a whole other side to the man who cheated on the mother of his child and who allegedly gave her a sexually-transmitted disease (STD) last year after he returned from a trip to the Ukraine that was sponsored by Lay's Chips.

To try and limit brand damage Cardova Productions has taken Katlego Maboe off the air from its weekday breakfast show Expresso on SABC3 this past week while Outsurance rushed to re-edit and scrub all traces of him from all of the insurer's TV commercials.

It follows after the shocking fallout from the video on social media that has gone viral, in which Katlego Maboe is confronted by his former lover and mother of his 2-year old son, Monique Muller. 

In the video, Katlego, dressed in a gown, sheepishly admits to having cheated on her with another woman identified as Nikkita Murray who has since locked her social media accounts.

In the video, Monique Muller accuses Katlego Maboe of giving her an STD that damaged her womb, and in another video she claims that Katlego Maboe allegedly physically abused her as well, saying that "When the first physical attack happened I got a protection order against him".

Katlego Maboe has since abruptly disappeared from the public eye, only releasing a terse statement, saying that "I was unfaithful to my partner during a very important time of our lives - an act I regret to this day. We are currently undergoing an unfortunate and painful separation which is being resolved through legal proceedings".

"In light of the comments made against me, I would like to state that I have never abused my partner," Katlego Maboe said.

Monique Muller got a protection order preventing Katlego Maboe from setting foot in the Seapoint flat in Cape Town that they used to share.

In new revelations in the latest 5 November issue of YOU and Huisgenoot magazines, a close confidant of Monique Muller reveals that Katlego Maboe is not the man that viewers see on TV.

In July this year, Monique discovered that Katlego Maboe allegedly gave her an STD. 

Katlego Maboe apparently travelled to Kiev, Ukraine to watch a soccer match while he was a brand ambassador for Lay's Chips where he later admitted to Monique that he kissed one of the women who won the competition on a dancefloor. 

He later allegedly had sex with this woman in a hotel room.

YOU and Huisgenoot obtained another video in which Katlego Maboe tells Monique that his shameful behaviour is because he thought that being on TV enabled him to engage in this type of behaviour and that he feels terrible about it.

In the video, Katlego Maboe says that when he's on people's TV screens he is forced to smile and look cheerful because it's his work - but that when he's off-camera he doesn't have to keep up a happy and friendly persona.

Following his cheating scandal that has damaged his public reputation and trust, Outsurance has rushed to edited Katlego Maboe out of its "Chencha dai deng" TV adverts, now only showing testimonials of customers without Katlego interviewing them.

Expresso publicist El Broide said in a statement that the SABC3 show "condemns any acts of violence and mistreatment, especially against women and children, and therefore take such allegations very seriously".

"Until such time as the matter has been fully investigated, and pending the outcome, Katlego Maboe will not be appearing on Expresso".

Interestingly, a week later GoBinge has not yet published the sit-down interview that the YouTube channel did and teased with Monique Muller since last weekend in which she talks about how Katlego Maboe had allegedly physically attacked her and how the TV presenter cheater on her.

ALSO READ: SABC3's Expresso presenter and Outsurance star Katlego Maboe admits to cheating on partner who allegedly got a sexually-transmitted disease: 'I was unfaithful.'

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 30 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Andisa Ndlovu leaves eNCA (DStv 403)
... while Zoe Brown pops back up at SABC3's Expresso.

■ Outsurance edits SABC3 Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe out of its TV commercials after his cheating.

- Katlego Maboe's "wife abuse storm" story also news across Southern Africa.

■ Season 2 of Star Wars: The Mandalorian starts on Disney+ that is NOT available on South Africa or Africa - a favourite character makes a cameo!

- Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Disney's biggest blockbuster of 2020 returns with a new mission.

- Who is Cobb Vanth?

- A Star Wars lore cheat sheet for season 2.

- Star Wars: The Mandalorian season 2 makes Disney+ the lead streamer.

- But perhaps again the most pirated TV show of 2020  as it was in 2019?

Disney refused to preview or make screeners of the second season available to TV critics.

■ Star Wars: The Mandalorian reviews: 

- "A smorgasbord of action and Easter eggs"

- "A fun return"

- "Creators have started to think bigger"

- The best episode yet? Season 2 premiere was amazing"

- Season 2 kicks off in the best way"

■ CNN International (DStv 401) contributor lied on CNN.

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) Tucker Carlson claims; proof lost in the mail.

■ What happens to Fox News (StarSat 261) if Donald Trump loses the 2020 American election? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.

■ Angry South African artists in potential hostage situation demand answers from the country's incompetent Gauteng Arts and Culture department over Covid-19 relief funds.

■ As expected, Netflix hikes prices in America.

■ Amazon Prime Video: The consumer doesn't own the series and films they buy to watch.

■ How will Disney's experiment making its big-screen Mulan available on its Disney+ streamer affect the VOD business?

■ South Africans are tired of "doing the right thing" when it comes to paying their SABC TV Licence fees and won't stand for being taxed more to fund the SABC simply by watching MultiChoice's DStv or Netflix SA.

- There are a lot of challenges around the SABC and department of communications' idea to have private companies like MultiChoice and Netflix collect and pay SABC TV Licence fees on behalf of their customers.

■ The Masked Singer is getting a spinoff: The Masked Dancer.

■ NBCUniversal is apparently done with creating content and shows for a specific pay-TV channel.

What will happen to American-produced linear pay-TV channels like E!, Universal TV, Studio Universal and others carried on platforms like DStv in Africa?

■ See and hear Gillian Anderson and her stunning transformation into Margaret Thatcher in the trailer for the 4th season of The Crown on Netflix.

■ Sky gives carpentry show The Chop on Sky History channel the chop after Nazi scandal.

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 29 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Some of the responses to the scandal swirling around the cheater SABC3 Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe and Outsurance frontman shows that attitudes over abuse in South Africa need to change. (subscription required)

■ No sign yet of the GoBinge sit-down interview that the YouTube channel teased days ago with Monique Muller claiming that she endured physical abuse from Katlego Maboe.

■ SABC3's Trending SA show finally addresses the issue after days; Frames it as Katlego Maboe's "private life" although it is his private life, hotel sex cheating with another woman and allegations of a STD, that were made part of public life on social media.

- Katlego Maboe fans who are fine with the swirling abuse and cheating claims around the presenter, attack SABC3's Expresso on Facebook.

- Katlego Maboe becomes a meme using his infamous gown-wearing admission that he's a cheater.

■ Sylvia Tladi, SABC TV Licence fees boss, admits that under new plan where people will be forced to pay a licence fee even if they only watch Netflix SA or MultiChoice DStv consumers won't be getting value for money.

■ Zoom: A naked man shows up on Canada's morning TV.

- And another full frontal "wardrobe malfunction" with Joel Dommett on ITV in Britain.

■ The dark, distorted world of Nicole Kidman's new TV murder mystery The Undoing that will be on M-Net (DStv 101).

■ Ellen DeGeneres, seen on VUZU (DStv 116) but getting axed there soon, lost more followers in 2020 than any other celebrity because of her talk show scandal.

- Wendy Williams unmasked as Lips in The Masked Singer.

■ The overstaffed and overburdened SABC with a monstrous wage bill and dreary programming is a broadcaster that is very hard to like.

■ eMedia Investments refuses to talk about it but e.tv has upgraded its Openview decoders that have a WiFi hotspot option and functionality now - very likely in anticipation of the launch of its Openview Plus streaming service.

■ America's TV news and its plans for 2020 election night coverage.

■ The blessing of the Chinese censors? China's state-run CCTV shows a portrait of the Prophet Muhammad in a TV series.

Coronavirus: CBS Studios in America reduces the episode orders of new seasons of several scripted drama series due to Covid-19 production challenges.

by Thinus Ferreira

CBS Studios in the United States has decided to reduce the number of episodes of new seasons of several scripted series because of production challenges given the Covid-19 global pandemic.

Producers and production companies need more time to craft and film episodes given new precautionary measures, including on-set, as well as remote working and social distancing regulations. 

Production costs have also increased because of Covid-19, meaning that fewer episodes can realistically be produced within the same budget constraints.

The upcoming new seasons of NCIS (seen on M-Net, DStv 101 and Universal TV, DStv 117), Blue Bloods (seen on M-Net City, DStv 115), Bull (seen on M-Net, DStv 101), The Neighborhood (seen on 1Magic, DStv 103), SEAL Team (seen on M-Net City, DStv 115) and Magnum P.I (seen on M-Net, DStv 101), that were all renewed for 22 episodes, will now all be reduced to either 16 or 18 episodes for their latest seasons.

The modified number of episodes per CBS Studios show for their new seasons are: Blue Bloods (16), Bull (16), Magnum P.I. (16), The Neighborhood (18), NCIS (16), NCIS: Los Angeles (18), NCIS: New Orleans (16), and SEAL Team (16).

As more American studios ramp up production on new seasons, more of them might very well announce truncated and scaled back episode orders for their latest seasons.

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 28 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Cheating Expresso TV presenter Katlego Maboe: Is infidelity a form of abuse?

- Reputation rehab: Can reality TV rescue people with bad reputations?

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) American election night 2020 coverage plans in chaos over internal Covid-19 cases.

■ The South African Football Association (SAFA) defends its extremely bizarre late-night announcement in an amateurish exclusive broadcast on the SABC.

■ From 17 November the Televiza pay-TV operator in Mexico will offer Disney+ as an additional streaming service to its subscribers - similar to how MultiChoice wants to add Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others to DStv.

"Rather than just seeing it as a competitor, well there are ways that we can all benefit, including Disney and us, from new entrants in the market."

■ For video streaming services like Netflix and Apple TV+ catalogue content size isn't everything.

■ Star Wars: The Mandalorian is once again at the top of digital original series recognition and interest.

Worldwide - including South Africa and across Africa where Disney hasn't launched Disney+ - viewers can't wait for the second season of the  Disney+ that will very likely see another massive spike in pirate viewing.

- Baby Yoda has become a marketing force.

■ Netflix working on a live-action Assassin's Creed TV series.

■ John Stewart returning to TV with a new Apple TV+ current affairs series.

■ Bela Bajaria, the head of Netflix's global TV division restructures dramatically - people fired, international team reorganised.

■ Arrow's Stephen Amell reveals he tested Covid-19 positive.

Discuss his "mental fear" of ruining his new TV series because he's the lead on the call sheet.

■ The real reason(s) Netflix cancelled its science fiction series Away.

■ Demi Lovato is going to be the host of the 2020 E! People's Choice Awards on E! (DStv 124).

■ Bots target and make thousands of votes in Nickelodeon's (DStv 305) Kids Pick the President special of the ViacomCBS TV channel.

■ South Africa's state signal distributor Sentech defends its exorbitantly high prices it charges the SABC and others. (subscription required)

■ In a decade of reality TV, have we learnt anything at all?

■ How do celebrity actors prepare for TV sex scenes?

■ TV actress stabbed in Mumbai after she turned down Indian man's marriage proposal.

■ Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) rejects and is shocked by the fines that the country's corrupt Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) imposed on TV channels like Arise TV, AIT and Channels TV for their coverage of the #EndSARS public protests.

Demands that the sanctions and fines be withdrawn and that the corrupt NBC follow correct legal procedures.

■ The trouble with Netflix.

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 27 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Wendy Williams on the verge of another drug-fuelled implosion?

With her bizarre and highly erratic behaviour once again visible on-air, insiders working behind-the-scenes at The Wendy Williams Show seen on BET (DStv 129) say "it's like coming to work and watching a trainwreck every day".

- Production staff is at a loss over what to do.

- Wendy Williams starts Monday with cryptic: "I'm not perfect."  - "You're a tough crowd."

- Shock that Debmar-Mercury would allow this to air.

- Former show DJ Boof warns: "Everyone there is afraid to speak up because they don't want to lose their jobs.  This is going to play out bad".

■ Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings: "We don't really focus that much on title count."

Video streamer on defence in its Q3 earnings call with investors as Netflix admits that its content catalogue of titles is now smaller than what it used to be.

■ Mindhunter on Netflix most likely cancelled.

■ How Apple TV+ is carving out a niche as video streaming service.

■ Health shock: Legendary SuperSport presenter Neil Andrews undergoing triple bypass surgery.

Hospitalised Saturday after unbearable chest pains started this past weekend.

■ Young YouTube influencers are shamelessly marketing junk food to other kids.

■ SABC3's cheater Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe didn't just throw Monique Muller but also the other woman Nikkita Murray under the bus.

When a child is involved, cheating becomes that much more difficult and destructive.

■ Home Improvement's Zachery Ty Bryan dragged girlfriend out of bed by her hair, beat her and choked her over a cellphone charger.

■ New show of Shepard Smith, now seen on CNBC Africa (DStv 410) is a ratings flop.

■ The room where it happens: Why writer rooms make for great TV.

■ How the TV industry in America is getting back to work.

■ In America TV journalism will remain broken after Donald Trump.

■ Joe Dempsey on his new British series Adult Material: The Game of Thrones actor talks porn, sex and self-pleasure.

■ The TV and film industry got black characters wrong for decades. Meet the black British creatives rewriting the script.

■ Shock and outrage as Nigeria's government and corrupt National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) cracks down on the struggling country's media and TV channels during #EndSARS protests.

"The future of press freedom in Nigeria is under massive attack to muzzle journalists."

■ UPIC TV launches in Botswana as an internet protocol TV service.

Health shock: SuperSport's Neil Andrews set for triple bypass surgery on Tuesday, hospitalised Saturday after unbearable chest pains.

by Thinus Ferreira

Neil Andrews (55) is missing from his sports throne in SuperSport's Studio 6 in Randburg with the legendary presenter who is confronting a health shock and is set to undergo triple bypass surgery on Tuesday after confronting unbearable chest pains since this past weekend.

The Sporting Post reports that Neil Andrews admitted himself to hospital on Saturday after pains in his solar plexus became unbearable.

Known to millions of SuperSport viewers over decades, the well-liked and highly respected Neil Andrews will undergo a triple bypass operation at the Fourways Life Hospital in Fourways, Johannesburg on Tuesday.

The highly respected sports commentator and Tellytrack and SuperSport presenter who was born in England but emigrated with his family to South Africa in 1975, is married to Hlohlo and he's the father of Elijah Gabriel Andrews (10 months), Noah Benjamin (2) and Brighton Nathaniel (7). 

He has a daughter Melissa Jade (23) and son Gregory (19) from a previous relationship.

In June this year Neil Andrews opened up about the stressful impact that the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown has had on his and his family, telling The Sporting Post that "As with every South African, this time has been a real challenge both financially and emotionally".

"But I am mindful that I remain abundantly blessed.  I have a beautiful, healthy young family, and my wife and I have witnessed them growing up literally in front of our eyes for every minute of every day."

SuperSport in response to a media enquiry about Neil Andrews on Monday night told TVwithThinus that "SuperSport can confirm that Neil has been hospitalised and will undergo surgery tomorrow. That said, his spirits are up and he says he's feeling fine."

Nigeria's corrupt National Broadcasting Commission fines TV channels over protest news coverage, threatens to shut them down.

by Thinus Ferreira

In a shocking announcement, Nigeria's corrupt National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Monday announced that it is levelling fines against some of Nigeria's TV channels - including Arise TV, Channels Television and AIT - over their #EndSARS protest news coverage which the country's beleaguered president Muhammadu Buhari doesn't like, and threatened that they may be shut down.

Nigeria's NBC said that it will shut TV channels down if they continue to broadcast news coverage that the NBC and Nigerian government sees as instigating a breakdown of law and order in the West African country, or if they broadcast anything that "threaten the security of the country".

Armstrong Idachaba, NBC acting director-general, on Monday suddenly announced at a press conference in Abuja that Arise TV, Channels Television and AIT are each being fined N3 million (R127 862) for what the NBC unilaterally decided is "unprofessional coverage".

The NBC last week ordered Nigeria's TV channels and radio not to "embarrass" Nigeria as a country with their coverage of the "#EndSars" protests sweeping the struggling country.

Armstrong Idachaba claimed that Arise TV, Channels TV and AIT were guilty of "gross violation of the broadcast code, top of which is the use of unverified online video footage from social media". 

As public protests and civil unrest exploded and spread in Nigeria last week following the indiscriminate killing of protesters by Nigerian special forces, multiple TV news channels in Nigeria had their news crews attacked, their buildings and studios invaded, burnt and destroyed.

Angry and fearful Nigerians have been demonstrating for the past 2 weeks against the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit that Nigerians accuse of gross extortion, harassment, torture, police brutality and murder.

The Channels TV channel meanwhile abruptly stopped broadcasting on Wednesday afternoon soon after TVC News started to burn.

Channels, carried on MultiChoice's DStv and GOtv in Nigeria, simply showed the channel logo and ran an on-air scroll simply saying "Channels Television is temporarily shutting down due to imminent attack on our staff and operations".

Channels later switched to recorded rebroadcasts.

Reporters of African Independent Television (AIT) and Silverbird Television were reportedly harassed while trying to cover the unfolding protests in Nigeria, while Toyin Yusuf, a journalist with Osun State Broadcasting Corporation was attacked. 

Meanwhile Nigerian soldiers prevented a TV news crew from Arise TV from covering the news at the Lekki Tollgate.

ALSO READ: TVC News headquarters and news vans in Lagos burn as channel is forced off air, Channels TV shuttered, LTV attacked; news crews and reporters from AIT, Silverbird, Arise TV and OSBC harassed by soldiers and protesters as Nigeria's protests spread after government curfew and killings by security forces.

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 26 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ SABC3's Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe and that sexually transmitted disease (STD): No place to hide for TV personality.
Allegedly also cheated on Monique Muller while she was pregnant with their son and multiple other times claims her brother Seth Muller.

■ Monique Muller does tell-all sit-down interview over Katlego Maboe and alleged physical abuse:

Alleges that she got a restraining order the first time he hit her: "When the first physical attack happened, I got a protection order against him. He then admitted to sleeping with this woman".

- People called to couple's house late at night after alleged abuse.

- Monique Muller says there was a lot of intimidation against her brother Seth; other woman and her husband lock their social media accounts. (Afrikaans) (subscription required)

- Katlego Maboe "a wrecking ball of a human being".

- e.tv's Durban Gen drama series trolls with a "gown confession".

- Lessons from the Katlego Maboe debacle: Your private life on social media impacts your real professional life.

- The Katlego Maboe blame game saga:

Why are some people making the Katlego Maboe cheating and alleged abuse scandal about the issue that the shocking video should have been kept private, instead of the serious contents of the video?

■ In America, media executives are finally accepting the decline of traditional pay-TV; trying to figure out a new path forward.

- 25 million pay-TV subscribers to cancel over next 5 years; 

- Pay-TV operators no longer care whether customers subscribe or not but just keep increasing prices;

- billions in losses in revenue for Disney, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS, Fox, Discovery Inc., AMC Networks;

- golden goose of bundling TV channels dying;

- Video streaming not the saviour and not superior;

- pay-TV channels like ESPN likely to cut back on programming, that will likely lead to less viewers;

- the total TV channels bundle is going to shrink

■ You think you want it, but why you don't want that happy ending.

■ Niecy Nash doesn't care about losing fans because of her wedding.

■ "Daylight robbery": SABC wants payment for watching Netflix South Africa. (subscription required)

Absurd tax is similar to King William III of England who introduced a daylight tax in 1696, causing people to brick up their windows to block the sunlight.

■ SABC's last resort to try and recover lost SABC TV Licence fees.

- Attorney: Neither MultiChoice nor Netflix SA is obliged to accept the responsibility of collecting SABC TV Licence fees.

■ SABC wanting Netflix SA, MultiChoice and others to collect SABC TV Licence fees would create a highly uncompetitive and uneven playing field in the media space:

The SABC needs to choose whether it is a public broadcaster or a commercial competitor, it cannot be both.

■ Tuning out the SABC:

Advertisers and the public have been given every reason to tune out of the SABC. The SABC doesn't even know who has a TV set.

■ SABC execs confirm it has received the letter of demand from the Bemawu trade union demanding that no members of Bemawu will be fired in South African public broadcaster's retrenchment process.

- Bemawu threatens to go to Labour Court if SABC refuses to continue retrenchment talks.

- The CWU trade union that supported Hlaudi Motsoeneng wants to take the battle to the streets and strike.

■ Netflix subscription plummeted and cancellations increased 800% after the release of controversial film Cuties.

Netflix's growth may already have peaked:

Growing evidence that the video streamer is close to saturating its biggest markets.

■ Black staffers demand that Vogue editor Anna Wintour resign.

"I have made mistakes along the way."

■ New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik on the Donald Trump "season finale" and the media burnout from the White House reality show.

■ TV reporter robbed of his cellphone while preparing for a live broadcast.

Diego Demarco of the TV news channel En Vivo El Nueve mugged in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

■ WATCH: The holodeck The Volume: The technology that's replacing the green screen.

■ Is the global video streaming service market oversaturated? In a crowded space there's going to be casualties.

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) president Jay Wallance and several on-air presenters including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Dana Perino and Juan Williams told to quarantine after they were exposed to someone with Covid-19.

■ CNN (DStv 401) could be forced to face a new era without boss Jeff Zucker.

■ MultiChoice, Somizi Mhlongo and producer Legend Manqele all get lawyer's letters.

Drama continues over disastrous Dinner at Somizi on M-Net's 1Magic (DStv 103) that is allegedly content theft of Hastings Moeng's original idea.

Outsurance: Katlego Maboe is an actor who was fully paid for TV commercials campaign and should resolve his relationship problems in private, other woman hasn't been working for the insurance company for 2 years.

by Thinus Ferreira

The insurance company that is removing all of its TV commercials featuring Katlego Maboe after a growing scandal around the Expresso presenter and his acrimonious marital relationship including allegations of physical abuse, says he doesn't work for Outsurance, is an actor that was used and got fully paid for it.

Outsurance says that the "other woman" Nikita Murray who Katlego Maboe allegedly had secret hotel sex with, last worked for the insurance company two years ago.

Scandal is swirling around Katlego Maboe who has been removed from Expresso on SABC3 while insurer Outsurance is removing all of its TV commercials starring him "as soon as possible". 

It follows his confession of having cheated on Monique Muller and which led to Monique allegedly getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD). 

Monique also claims physical abuse. Her brother Seth Muller alleged that Katlego Maboe also cheated on Monique Muller while she was pregnant with their son and multiple other times.

In a statement, Katlego Maboe said that "I was unfaithful to my partner during a very important time of our lives - an act I regret to this day. We are currently undergoing an unfortunate and painful separation which is being resolved through legal proceedings".

"In light of the comments made against me, I would like to state that I have never abused my partner," Katlego Maboe said, but that claim is disputed by Monique who is set to talk about the alleged physical abused she endured.

Monique Muller did a sit-down interview with the GoBinge channel on YouTube that released a 1-minute teaser about the upcoming interview that it plans to release sometime this week. 

Outsurance on Monday morning told TVwithThinus that "Following media reports of infidelity and an acrimonious marital relationship, including alleged physical abuse, involving Katlego Maboe, Outsurance has engaged extensively with Katlego Maboe and it was decided that Katlego and his family should be afforded the space and time to deal with this matter".

"As part of that discussion, the proposal was to in the meantime suspend all advertisements featuring Katlego. Outsurance remains of the opinion that the matter should be resolved in private."

Outsurance says that "It is important to note that Katlego Maboe is not an Outsurance employee or a permanent contractor to Outsurance. He is a professional actor who is paid on a campaign by campaign basis."

"Katlego Maboe has received his full compensation from Outsurance for all past as well as the current campaign in which he was featured. This includes performance as well as full usage fees for the entire campaign."

"We also want to clarify that Nikita Murray is not a current Outsurance employee. She last worked for the company in 2018. Katlego Maboe and Nikita Murray met independently and not via any relation to Outsurance."

ALSO READ: SABC3's Expresso presenter and Outsurance star Katlego Maboe admits to cheating on partner who allegedly got a sexually-transmitted disease: 'I was unfaithful.' 

ALSO READ: Monique Muller in sit-down interview claims she got protection order after Katlego Maboe physically abused her.