South African celebrity actress and producer, Sonia Mbele has disclosed the basis of her first television reality show, “Real Housewives of Johannesburg”.
According to the multi-talented whiz, she is also gifted with some writing prowess and has nurtured her skill during her early education. She shared that she wrote some short stories as well as crafted some musical lyrics.
In an exclusive interview with Y107.9 FM’s Princess AJ on the weekend ‘Party Pressure’ radio show, the award-winning actress said, “After some time I decided to do writing because I’ve been given the talent of writing and I’ve been writing music lyrics since I was a young girl and writing short stories. Then I decided to go into producing and that is what I do today.”
Sonia Mbele, an admirer of reality shows, recounted her experience of failed attempts to reintroduce the Real Housewives reality show to South Africa.
“In 2013 I tried to work on ‘Real Housewives of Johannesburg’ but I don’t think the country and the TV channels were ready at that time. So there were rejections right, left and center,” she stated.
Sonia Mbele briefly narrated the origin of the reality show as she said, “So Real Housewives was formatted by NBC and what they do is to send their formators out there trying to come up with a show. One guy came back and said ‘I’m friends with these women and they are ridiculously rich and living the lifestyle but they don’t have the platform.’ So he created the Real Housewives format and nobody picked it up. So it was circling and circulating around the NBC offices and emails and stuff like that until the Real Housewives of Orange County picked it up. Once they did it just spread to New York, Atalanta and everywhere.”
She furthered, “So obviously I’m a huge reality show consumer. Its easy television, you don’t have to think. It’s that time when it’s your down time you just have to go home switch on to something and just laugh laugh. So I tried bring it to South Africa in 2013 and it was a no go then tried again in 2017 and finally got premiered in October 2018. The first ever in Africa.”
By: Jude Tackie
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