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".
