BREAKING. SABC3 surprises (even me!) with The A List, a new local celeb magazine show that will hunt for access to footballers' wives.

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Well. Not even I knew about this one, which takes some doing. Completely out of the blue SABC3 just announced a brand-new local celebrity weekly magazine show, The A List that will start next Thursday, 3 June at 20:31 on SACB3 with presenter Sinazo Pelisa Yolwa. This new local production is blatantly going to try and cash in on all the football action coming South Africa's way. The A List will unashamedly focus on the glam factor around the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

The A List - according to SABC3 (and I'm still getting over my totally dazed look for being clueless about this TV production) will be ''a sexy, fast paced entertainment show which delves into the world of celebrities visiting our country''. I told you at the beginning of the month RIGHT HERE that SABC3 has no intention of bring Flash! back for a second season this year . SABC3  was obviously making plans to broadcast The A List that will have 13 weekly, half hour episodes.

SABC3 says The A List will be ''filled with the hottest celebrities, footballer's wives and girlfriends (the so-called''Wags''). Fashion, beauty and style are a priority. But it's not just the beauty and fashion that catches our attention,'' says the producers of The A List, ''we also give the hottest news around and front row seats to top events that are being hosted for the Crème de la Crème.'' The A List is quite blatant in who the show will be pursuing. ''The footballer's wife or girlfriend,'' says The A List, ''. . . it is she that we are after''.

I can tell you that The A List is being produced by the former Motswako host Carol Bouwer and will be done from Cape Town although it will cover the whole of South Africa.