kykNET's K2 twin presenters Charlie and Alex Kotze of Oulap se Rooi: Offered R425 000 to masturbate and ejaculate.

For the category you-can't-make-this-up: kykNET's disgraced presenters Charlie and Alex Kotze are now revealing that they were offered but declined R425 000 to masturbate and ejaculate in front of people.

Charlie and Alex Kotze were the presenters of the fake home renovation show Oulap se Rooi pulled from the air last month after it was exposed that room improvements happened at the house of the executive producer instead of at viewers' homes.

Fronting Oulap se Rooi produced by Seven20 Entertainment was the first TV presenting gig for the farmer twins known as the K2 twins from Vredendal.

They were aware that they kept returning to the same Emmarentia house of co-executive producer Francois van Wyk where different room improvements happened with "actors" who pretended that it was rooms in their homes.

They say they were told its happening because the TV production is behind schedule. In a statement the producers said stand-in actors were used and that "not everything on TV is 100% real".

In the last episode of Oulap se Rooi before kykNET (DStv 144) abruptly pulled the show and launched an urgent investigation, the show did a kitchen renovation of a Christopher Yorke. Christopher Yorke is however actually Chris van Wyk, the creative director of People magazine.

Co-incidentally the twins appeared in a modelling shoot in that magazine's next issue of 25 September following what turned out to be the last aired episode of Oulap se Rooi.

kykNET tells TV with Thinus that the urgent investigation launched three weeks ago is still ongoing. "The investigation is fully ongoing. We can unfortunately not give feedback until the investigation is complete".

Charlie and Alex Kotze have since parted ways with their manager, Johan Stephan, after a big fall-out.

In the latest issue of Huisgenoot magazine Charlie and Alex Kotze now describe the breakdown of their business relationship with their ex manager who they say came to them with "ridiculous" offers like masturbating in an art gallery in Paris, France.

Charlie and Alex Kotze tell Huisgenoot if they were to ejaculate they would get R425 000 per day for four days.

Johan Stephan tells TV with Thinus "no offer was made. It was an email that was received like any other client or person with work they wanted to suggest to the twins. The email was declined and no offer was considered or discussed further" and he calls the twins' claim "ridiculous and false".

The brothers also say they were "pressured" to do underwear shoots, like one in only white underwear in the sea. Johan Stephan says its "untrue and absurd".

Charlie and Alex Kotze also tell of how they've been locked out of their social media pages and that their ex manager told them they have to buy it back from him for R765 000.

Johan Stephan says "the K2 social media profiles were created as marketing platforms - they could always create their own personal profiles separate from the 'K2' brand."

"The K2 profiles were focused to market them as the K2 Twins. It was a project fully created by me - the "twins" concept, the 'K2' brand name, the method to leverage social media as marketing platform with their consent. It was their decision that I create it, manage it and control it from the beginning".

"It was business platforms and not personal pages. It was created, managed and controlled with several input costs which I always covered. The 'K2' marketing was thus separate from their personal lives as 'Alex' and 'Charlie'."

Johan Stephan tells TV with Thinus he wasn't aware that Oulap se Rooi was filming several episodes of the kykNET show with Builders Warehouse as sponsor at the executive producer's own house.

"I wasn't aware of it. It was also not me who spoke with any media about it," he says.

"I wish Alex and Charlie only the best, I honestly don't have any hard feelings. I think they're following the wrong advice and acting maliciously and its a pity," says Johan Stephan.

FAKE-AWAY: kykNET dumps fake-over show Oulap se Rooi from its schedule with presenters Alex and Charlie Kotze; investigation done with 'utmost urgency'.

kykNET has dumped the fake-over show Oulap se Rooi with the K2 twin presenters Alex and Charlie Kotze and immediately removed the sham show from its schedule after the bombshell revelations that instead of improving viewers' homes the show redid rooms in the executive producer's home using "actors" as stand-ins, pretending it's rooms in their homes.

kykNET (DStv 144) says its apologising to viewers for Oulap se Rooi, has immediately removed the show from its schedule and is committed to producing quality Afrikaans TV content "with integrity".

Neither kykNET nor sponsor Builders Warehouse was aware that the show, produced by Seven20 Entertainment, was redoing homes at executive producer Francois van Wyk's own house in Emmarentia, Johannesburg and using friends to pretend that it's rooms in their homes.

Seven20 Entertainment says in a statement "not everything on television is 100% real" and that Seven20 Entertainment "made the decision to use stand-in actors for the makeover of some rooms" because of "time constraints and quality."

The producers say that although actors were used, "the actors' reactions to the made-over rooms were genuine".

In crisis mode, executives at M-Net's Afrikaans language channel on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform scrambled to yank Oulap se Rooi from its schedule after what insiders called "bombshell" revelations and told the producers their show is getting dumped pending an investigation.

"The case is seen in a very serious light," kykNET told TV with Thinus on Monday evening.

"A decision was taken to no longer broadcast Oulap se Rooi until there's clarity. The investigation is handled as a matter of utmost urgency by kykNET's auditors," says the channel, saying that it's committed to quality Afrikaans content with integrity.

Builders Warehouse said it's "very disappointed" with the shocking and damaging revelations. "We thought the concept was a nice one where the public got involved and their homes get renovated. But when we found out that actually it was the producer's house, we are very disappointed."

So far there's been no statement from the presenter twins who've remained silent over the controversy now swirling around their first TV presenting gig in the show that duped viewers by filming the majority of episodes at the executive producer's own house.

"We simply decided to shoot the episodes in one space because it was logistically easier - we were running behind schedule and we wanted to save production costs and time," says Francois van Wyk, executive producer in a statement, saying the show ran out of time to redo just rooms in actual viewers' homes.

"We could either stage some of the episodes, or end up with no content at all. We decided that the former was the better option".

Co-producer and well-known Top Billing presenter Ursula Chikane says Oulap se Rooi has "always been committed to excellence and accountability".

FAUX PAS: kykNET's fake-over Oulap se Rooi: 'Not everything on television is 100% real'; show admits stand-in actors were used for makeovers at producer's own house.

"Not everything on television is 100% real," says the producers, Seven20 Entertainment, after shocking and damaging revelations that kykNET's Oulap se Rooi - supposed to do make-overs of viewers' rooms - is a TV fake.

The home make-over show Oulap se Rooi with the presenter twins Charlie and Alex Kotze was supposed to improve rooms of viewers.

Instead it was the house of the executive producer Francois van Wyk that got upgrades and make-overs without viewers being told and viewers deliberately kept in the dark with stand-in actors creating the perception that it is rooms in their own and different homes.

kykNET and viewers are shocked and Oulap se Rooi sponsor, Builders Warehouse told TV with Thinus earlier on Monday that the company is "very disappointed".

"We're very disappointed for what has transpired because it was obviously not what was supposed to happen," said Zandile Manana, Builders Warehouse marketing manager.

"We decided to sponsor the programme based on the fact that we are a home improvement and DIY player. We want to inspire, educate and get our customers started on DIY. So we thought the concept was a nice one where the public got involved and their homes get renovated."

"But when we found out that actually it was the producer's house, we are very disappointed."

"We're having a conversation with the producers. We're taking this further to see how we can remedy this situation. But from our side we're very disappointed," says Zandile Manana.

Seven20 Entertainment, in a statement on Monday afternoon admits that stand-in actors were used for several rooms in Francois van Wyk's property in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, making as if it's the rooms in their homes.

The company says these stand-in actors' reactions to the rooms however are genuine.

Oulap se Rooi was Charlie and Alex Kotze first job as TV presenters, now mired in scandal.

"Seven 20 made the decision to use stand-in actors for the makeover of some rooms," admits the company. "Again, this was a decision that we made because of time constraints and quality."

"We needed to create a positive reaction, and we wanted the audience to relate with the characters on the screen. What people need to understand is that it is still a television show - not everything on television is 100% real," says Seven20 Entertainment.

Ironically kykNET and the show asked viewers to write in and tell them of rooms in their own homes that needed a makeover and that Oulap se Rooi with Charlie and Alex Kotze would come and do a makeover.

"We could either stage some of the episodes, or end up with no content at all. We decided that the former was the better option," says Francois van Wyk in the statement, saying he "paid for each and every made-over room in his house out of his own pocket".

"We simply decided to shoot the episodes in one space because it was logistically easier - we were running behind schedule and we wanted to save production costs and time".

Seven20 Entertainment says "we have kept all original invoices and receipts and we will gladly produce them to our clients and the channel".

The statement doesn't explain why viewers were not told beforehand, and why a show on M-Net's Afrikaans language channel on MultiChoice's DStv, purportedly created and marketed to help viewers, ended up not doing that in each of the episodes.

Seven20 Entertainment says "sometimes we add scenes for dramatic effect or we edit some out - the show needs to be entertaining and that is always top of mind. However; the actors' reactions to the made-over rooms were genuine - they had not seen the rooms beforehand".

"We are saddened by the fact that sensationalism has taken precedence over facts and that media platforms started running with the story that was taken completely out of context," says co-producer and Top Billing presenter Ursula Chikane.

"We have always been committed to excellence and accountability," says Ursula Chikane.

"We put out a great product with our charming hosts Alex and Charlie Kotze and we delivered content on-time for broadcast. For a labour of love to be branded in an inaccurate light, causes us pain on a deeply personal level," says Ursula Chikane.