Represent Ayeye! Calling all strippers
Die groot krokodil and all other conservatives of our gagged past must be spinning in their graves as freedom of speech and the right to choose how you live your life spreads as far as a reality stripping show on TV and on M-Net nogal. Tannies country-wide (and lots of others) will be horrified. Ingeniously, STRIPTEASE, will feature SA’s very own “wannabe Hugh Hefner”, Lolly Jackson, who alone will attract hordes of viewers wanting a close-up of this notorious player. The show kicks off in September but auditions start next week. Ayeye!Positioned as “sensual” yet “classy” we do wonder what the trajectory of this show will be in a country where women’s rights and sexual violence and abuse is always top of mind. We wait and see.
New local reality show for M-Net’s actionX – Stripdance your way to the top
Reality show fever is running high on DStv. Come August, M-Net will bring you Idols, Survivor SA: Malaysia and Big Brother Africa. Now M-Net’s actionX, channel 6 on DStv, also gets its own local reality show. Get ready for Stripteaze, a late-night, sensual yet classy reality show in which South Africa’s best male and female strippers will strut their stuff to get your vote.
Stripteaze is actionX’s very first locally-produced programme and will be on air from 1 September on Saturdays at 23:00.
“It’s a giant leap forward for actionX to produce local content and we trust that Stripteaze will attract a lot of viewers to our channel,” says Tracey Nissenbaum, actionX’s Head of Programming. “Up to now actionX has brimmed with action-packed, fast-paced international shows and movies geared at an “older” audience. Our first local reality show, Stripteaze, fits perfectly into this mix.”
Auditions for Stripteaze will start soon. The competition is open to anybody between 18 and 35 years of age and includes amateur and professional dancers.
Stripteaze performances are theme based, and the performers will only strip down to their g-strings.
Auditions will take place at Teazers branches across South Africa.
Forty girls and twenty guys will be chosen from the audition phases to compete in the first round of the competition. Each week, viewers at home will then vote for their favourite performers via SMS. The male and female performers with the most votes will then advance to the next round, after which they will compete for a place in the finals.
The winners will receive prizes to the value of R300 000. The winning Male Dancer will ride home on a Ducati motorcycle, while the best Female Dancer will get her booty into a brand new sporty1.4 VW Golf.
The viewers at home are the judges and only they will decide who goes through, and ultimately who becomes the striptease champion. The infamous Lolly Jackson will be present in each episode, though, to give his opinion on each of the performances.
Auditions will take place at the following Teazers branches on the following days between 9:00 and 14:00:
23 July – Rivonia
24 July – Midrand
25 July – Boksburg
26 July – Pretoria
27 July – Cresta
30 July – Belville (Cape Town)
31 July – Loop Street (Cape Town)
1 August – Durban.
If you’d like to enter, you have to bring along your ID book – and some impressive moves of course!
