Hykie Berg, Reynardt Hugo, Ramsey Short and Rolanda Marais are all gonners from the soap Binneland on kykNET (DStv 111) the production tells me - which looked to keep the news quiet for a while longer.
All four actors - all of them part of the show since the beginning except for Hykie Berg who joined the Stark Productions Afrikaans soap later - are gonners. Viewers will see all four leave the show within the next two months.
Binneland tells me Ramsay Short is going to Canada for America's annual TV pilot season. He got a work permit for Canada and the USA. I don't know what Hykie Berg is up to.
Rolanda Marais is after seven years tired of the role (after appearing in the movie Wolwedans in die Skemer). Reynardt Hugo is currently shooting the musical Pretville and for the rest of the year the actor who's also a musician wants to concentrate on this growing music career as part of the band Adam (which was nominated for 3 Ghoema awards).
''It's the nature of the biz that actors search greener pastures,'' quips another show insider at the soap to me. ''They want to spread their wings and see what else is out there.''
