eNCA's Jeremy Maggs asks his NewsNight co-anchor Iman Rappetti for her hand and ring finger live on television! But it's not what you think.

On Tuesday evening South African television's bona fide first couple of TV news had a moment when the eNCA's (DStv 403) primetime news anchor Jeremy Maggs asked his NewsNight co-anchor Iman Rappetti for her hand and her ring finger live on television.

But it wasn't what viewers thought.

After she was off, and then he was off during the end of year and start-up period, Jeremy Maggs and Iman Rappetti are back together co-anchoring NewsNight together with their brilliant on-screen chemistry.

On Tuesday evening on eNCA the two once again not only brought viewers the news, but as always their indelible co-anchoring TV news magic which always enhances the already stellar night news broadcast.

Iman Rappetti told viewers about a new blue diamond - the rarest of diamonds in the world - discovered at the Cullinan mine near Pretoria, worth millions and the size of an acorn.

That's when Jeremy Maggs chipped in with his impromptu, off the cuff question when he asked Iman Rappetti: "Show me your ring finger?"

The never flapped Iman Rappetti - always ready to ham it up a little with her co-anchor during less serious moments - laughed and diligently held out her hand.

"I think it should fit. Acorn?" she mused.

"We'll see what we can do," said Jeremy Maggs before they returned to the serious news.

Here's the adorable, funny moment:

BREAKING. Lesego Motsepe memorial service to be held at the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters this Thursday at 13:00.

A memorial service for Lesego Motsepe, the HIV positive actress who played the character of Letti Matabane on SABC3's Isidingo for 15 years and who died suddenly yesterday in her Randburg home, will be held at the SABC this coming Thursday, 23 January, at 13:00.

The memorial service for Lesego Motsepe will take place at the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters.

Plans for her funeral service is also underway.

ALSO READ: Isidingo and the SABC react to the sudden death of actress Lesego Motsepe who played Letti Matabane in SABC3 soap.

BREAKING. Isidingo and the SABC react to death of actress Lesego Motsepe, Isidingo's Letti: 'Her legacy will remain'.

Endemol South Africa, the production company producing SABC3's longrunning soap Isidingo, as well as the SABC, are reacting today with tributes to Lesego Motsepe, a day after the actress' shocking and unexpected death yesterday morning in her Randburg home.

Lesego Motsepe (39) is known for her portrayal of the character of Letti Matabane from 1993 to 2008, and in 2011 became South Africa's first TV soap star to publicly announce that she was HIV positive.

"We are saddened by the news of Lesego’s sudden passing at such a young age," says Sivan Pillay, Endemol South Africa's managing director.

"During her years on Isidingo, she was professional and performed to the best of her abilities. We extend our grief and sincere condolences to her family and friends. She will be missed by her friends and colleagues here at Endemol."

Sivan Pillay says Lesego Motsepe "performed well in her craft, and delivered her role exceptionally. Endemol and Isidingo's cast and crew will celebrate her contributions to the show. Her legacy, love and influence in acting will remain in the lives and hearts of many South Africans."

The SABC is also reacting to Lesego Motsepe's death.

The SABC says Lesego Motsepe "will be truly missed".

"As the SABC we are proud to have contributed to the nurturing of this fine talent. The corporation would like to send heartfelt condolences to Lesego Motsepe's family, friends and colleagues. Lesego Motsepe will be remembered for her immense contribution in the arts industry."

"Her face will surely disappear from our minds, but her great work will remain and continue to challenge and inspire new and established performers," says the SABC.

BREAKING. Alison Sweeney - Sami from Days of Our Lives - leaving the American soap after 21 years.

Alison Sweeney (37), Sami from Days of Our Lives on SABC3, just announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (seen on M-Net Series Reality (DStv 114) in South Africa) that she is leaving Days of Our Lives after 21 years.

Alison Sweeney, a mother of two, who became the host of the reality show The Biggest Loser in 2007, joined Days of Our Lives in 1993 when she was just 16.

Alison Sweeney is done with the American daytime soap when her contract expires later this year and she told America's Soap Opera Digest in a cover story to co-incide with today's announcement on Ellen, that "my passion for working at Days has kept me there, obviously, for 21 years".

Alison Sweeney told Ellen DeGeneres that she is done with Days of Our Lives after 21 years because "my daughter just turned 5 and my son is 9. And I just want to be with them and enjoy my last year. I'm really just excited to be with my kids and be with my husband and have fun. I write. My second book's coming out, and I love directing."

"I have never had more than a two-week vacation [since starting in Days of Our Lives] in that whole time and it's awesome. I love Sami, I love Salem, I love my job, I love daytime, I love the fans, I love everything about it," Alison Sweeney said.

On how she wants her then-good, then-bad Sami Brady character to be written out of that town where anything is possible Alison Sweeney told Ellen that "I mean it would be awesome to have some kind of happy ending, but then I also think Sami probably deserves somthing sort of very twisted like a Breaking Bad ending, I don't know."

She said the "Days' writers have amazing imaginations. Sami has certainly caused he fair share of drama over the last 21 years. It will be 22 and I don't even know what happens next!"

M-Net mourns the passing of the South African TV industry stalwart and M-Net founding member, Ronnie van Wijk.

The pay-TV broadcaster M-Net says the company is mourning the death of Ronnie van Wijk.

Ronnie van Wijk, one of the founding members of M-Net, passed away on Saturday after a short illness.

"The M-Net group is deeply saddened to hear about the death of Ronnie van Wijk, one of the South African broadcast media industry stalwarts since 1976," says Kershnee Govender, M-Net's corporate affairs director in a statement.

"As one of the founding members of M-Net in 1986, his innovative spirit, broadcasting knowledge and leadership skills, helped shape and change television in South Africa forever, and pushed the group to become one of the leading broadcasters in Sub-Saharan Africa."

"His role in the birth of M-Net and his contributions to the sustenance and growth to the industry are immeasurable," says Kershnee Govender.

"There are few people in this world that have had as much of an impact on the industry as Ronnie. He will be dearly missed, but his legacy will live forever. Our sincere sympathy, thoughts and prayers go to the Van Wijk family."

Bloomberg Television has a brand-new documentary this Saturday at 15:00, The Player: Secrets of a Vegas Whale.

Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) has a brand-new documentary, The Player: Secrets of a Vegas Whale, which will be broadcast this Saturday at 15:00 (South African time).

The documentary doesn't appear on MultiChoice's EPG on DStv for Bloomberg Television (which is wrong, as is CNN International's unusable EPG which hasn't been updated in a while), but will be going out on Saturday for South African and African viewers.

Trish Regan takes an inside look at the secret life of the gambler Don Johnson, who walked away from Atlantic City in 2011 with $15 million - and how current casino executives are protecting their businesses against another player doing the same thing.

The casino business is a multi-billion dollar industry, with winners and losers. Did Don Johnson cheat, or was it luck? Or did he simply exploit the vulnerabilities of the industry to his advantage? Trish Regan goes inside an industry which is not as beatable or unbeatable as you think.

See how one gambler transformed himself from mediocre card player into the man who brought down the house, with interviews with Steve Wynn (CEO, Wynn Resorts), Jim Murren (CEO, MGM Resorts Ltd), Gary Loveman (CEO, Caesars Entertainment) Bill Boyd (Chairman, Boyd Ltd) and the ultimate Vegas whale Don Johnson.

Sky News' Jacquie Beltrao says she will fight breast cancer, determined to win her fight against the disease.

Sky News (DStv 402) presenter Jacquie Beltrao (48) who was diagnosed with breast cancer on Christmas Eve is now undergoing chemotherapy, following a mastectomy.

Jacquie Beltrao, Sky News' sport presenter on its morning show Sunrise and a former Olympic gymnast, says she is determined to win her fight against the disease.

The mother of three underwent an operation to remove a breast and is now undergoing chemotheraphy. Jacquie Beltrao who joined Sky News in 1992 has been with Sky News for 21 years.

'Who yo baby daddy?' American tabloid TV talk show, Maury, new to and now on SowetoTV from Mondays to Thursdays at 20:30.

As a cross between Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer, South African viewers can now tune in nationally to the American TV talk show Maury on SowetoTV (DStv 251) from Mondays to Thursdays at 20:30.

In the hour long daily episodes Maury specialises in over-the-top, often crass dysfunctional family drama like Jerry Springer, and often employs lie detector tests and paternity tests as Maury "unveils" the results on the air of who the father of someone's baby really is.

Maury also does makeover shows and interview shows from time to time, with guests like NeNe Leakes.

Maury, hosted by Maury Povich, is filled with some chair throwing, a lot of screaming, studio guests who want to fight, a circus-like studio audience screaming for blood and who vocally make their approval or displeasure known about the various in-studio guests and their antics.

In America Maury, executive produced by Paul Faulhaber is in its 22nd season. 

South African viewers on SowetoTV who tune in for the trashy yet compelling tabloid talk show will be seeing the episodes from 2010, or the 20th season of Maury.

The whitest, most perfect, most crease-free shirt you've EVER seen on television, or 'Nick Paton Walsh shows you how to do white right in TV news'.

The all time award for the best, whitest, most perfect, most crease-free, white shirt on television in news in forever goes - for now and for evermore - to CNN International's (DStv 401) white-so-right Nick Paton Walsh.

If there's one colour frowned and shunned from being worn on television, if not actually outright banned (besides thin stripes) it is glorious, fantastic white.

The TV trope no-no stems from the difficulty to lit it right and cameras unability to prevent the wash-out effect which can cause a blurry-type "glow effect" as a transmission problem.

Yet white - crisp, perfect cut, crease-free, stiff open collar white - is exactly what Nick Paton Walsh, CNN International's senior international correspondent reporting live from Beirut, Lebanon wore on Monday night.

And he wore it best for the ages.

Soo many things - so many different variables - came together to help form the perfect on-air image. Take one away, and the effect no longer works.

The cut off the white shirt for Nick Paton Walsh is perfect. He either put it on just before going live or didn't move all day - it was basically purely crease-free.

The collar - left unbottoned as an open neck - still sported a stiff collar. Only the TV gods will truly know whether its starched or whether Nick Paton Walsh freshly ironed it while the shirt was actually on his body.

And take a look at the lighting - absolutely just perfect to make the white pop without blowing up, and framed against a beautiful black and amber Beirut backdrop.

Did even the CNN control room graphics person and the cameraman play and conspire along to make Nick Paton Walsh in white look smashingly amazing?

The black lapel mic is literally hidden just below his second shirt button at the exact place where the top of the blue banner starts.

The picture proportions and everything inside the shot is framed so perfectly, as to enable the blue bottom third on-screen banner - and where that has to be placed on the screen - exactly obscure the black lapel pic to the millimetre where it fastened on the shirt.

This is how you wear white on television.

Look and learn, people, look and learn.