Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The bitch is back as Michelle Botes reprises her Cherel de Villiers character for a 2-episode appearance on SABC3's Isidingo for the soap's 21st anniversary in July.


The biggest bitch on South African television is returning with Cherel de Villiers-Haines-Le-Roux-Kumar-Homes who will return to SABC3’s Isidingo for a 2-episode arc to mark its 21st anniversary.

TV thesp Michelle Botes is back on the Isidingo backlot filming scenes today for Isidingo’s 21st birthday special episodes produced by Pomegranate Media.

These will be broadcast on Friday 5 July and Monday 8 July on SABC3. 

According to Isidingo publicist Catherine Sidyiyo, the special episodes will contain scenes not related to the main ongoing story arcs but are additional special scenes to mark the local weekday soap’s anniversary.

On Tuesday Isidingo on its social media shared a photo of Michelle Botes back in the dressing room getting hair and make-up done before scenes being shot today.

After years on the then-Endemol produced show, the Cherel character was shipped off to an asylum in 2007, with Botes who then jumped to M-Net’s Binnelanders soap on kykNET (DStv 144) where she remained a few years after which she went back to Isidingo in June 2010 to reprise the character of Cherel again for a short stint.