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I can exclusively break the news that Michelle Botes will be returning to SABC3's Isidingo and her iconic role of the evil villainess, schemer and backstabber Cherel de Villiers-Haines from June.
I can tell you that Michelle Botes will finish her current contract and film her last scenes as part of M-Net's Binneland Sub Judice within weeks and be done by the end of May. I was first to tell you way back in February when rumours started swirling about her possible departure from the M-Net soapie to return to the deliciously evil and scheming ways of her former character. Her final on-screen Binneland Sub Judice scenes will play out on M-Net in June on TV screens. In the same month Michelle Botes will return to SABC3's soap, Isidingo when she goes back to her old role, to help inject some much-needed drama since her character left and Isidingo's ratings also started to slide. ''Whatever they pay her, it's worth it,'' an insider told me. ''Isidingo needs Cherel back.''
Another on-set actor source at Binneland Sub Judice who confirmed Michelle Botes' departure told me ''she's walking around happy. She's somewhat sad to go, but she's returning to her iconic role on SABC3 with a sense of purpose.'' An SABC3 source confirmed to me that Michelle Botes will be theirs from the beginning of June again when she re-joins the Endemol SA produced soapie. ''It's supposed to be a massive, massive surprise for everyone.''
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