DJ, Singer & Influencer, Sithelo Shozi discusses how she was cast as the investigator on The Masked Singer SA episode alongside Somizi Mhlongo, J’Something, and Skhumba.

The program premiered last weekend and received a lot of favorable reviews, with Sithelo dominating the trending lists.

Speaking in a recent interview with Drum, the mother-of-3 said, “Not that I have never imagined myself in the space, but I just think I hadn’t planned or thought of it in my head for something that could happen right now. It still kind of feels like an out-of-body experience but it’s also just so phenomenal, it’s a really beautiful journey and I could never take any of this for granted.”

Sithelo claimed to have received a call from the show’s producer, Anele Mdoda, who also controls the production firm.

She was instructed to watch the UK edition of Masked Singer, but it was kept a secret from her.

When the show’s arrival in South Africa was later confirmed, Anele appointed her as one of the detectives.

The DJ initially dismissed it as unimportant but subsequently came to understand its importance and thanked Anele. Shozi said that the radio host had already disclosed the reason Mdoda chose her.

“She spoke of how a lot of people speak about opening the industry to new talent and that never really materializes. She said that she had been following me on social media for like four years and just watching how I move, what I say, what I put out, how I speak my truth, and how I’m so bold about whatever it is I’m doing. She says that’s what she wanted and that she saw herself in me when she was my age and she’d like for me to grow as much as she’s grown in the industry.”

“They have given me such peace, and they have allayed my mental anxieties. I’ve been invited to this production.

“I had so much fun that I don’t even remember shooting it,” she claims, “and that’s what I love about it because nothing is scripted”.

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Somizi Mhlongo is thrilled to be a panellist on the Masked Singer show. On the new program, the radio personality will play a detective with Sithelo Shozi, J’Something, and Skhumba.

Furthermore, Mhlongo responds to people criticising him for serving as a “judge” on the new show during the press conference for the new programme.

“The first thing when the news goes out, people are going to say ‘Ah Somizi again judging’ and we are not judging, I think they’ll get a pleasant surprise to understand that this is not a singing competition like any other. We are not judges, we are panellists, we are exactly what the audience is, we are just given the voices. But we are exactly what the audience experience,” he said.

Mhlongo claims he has always been true to himself and won’t alter anything.

“I’ve been myself from day one, and I would never change anything for anything or for anyone, so if you are tired of me, then switch. What makes me where I am today is my authenticity. I find it very sad for people to always adjust based on where they are. I am not a chameleon. Somizi has always been this, you’ll see Somizi at a different show but he will still be Somizi.”

 

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Moreover, Recently, former friends Unathi Nkayi and Somizi Mhlongo had a change of heart in 2022 meanwhile, in a recent interview, Unathi discusses the reasons behind her breakup with Som.

After her divorce from Thomas Msengana, Nkayi claims that although the media celebrity didn’t turn against her, their friendship ended because he took a stand.

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