By SAM PHIRI –
THE much-awaited ninth season of this year’s Big Brother Africa – Hotshots – which was scheduled to kick off on Sunday, September 7, has been postponed indefinitely, after a fire swept through the House.
M-Net and Endemol SA have advised that due to a devastating fire at the Big Brother house on Tuesday this week, Big Brother Hotshots will not launch as scheduled.
According to a statement released yesterday by M-Net and Endemol SA, the cause of the fire was by press time still not established and that investigations would only start as soon as it was safe to do so. No one was reported injured in the process.
“At this stage M-Net and Endemol are urgently looking for an alternative Big Brother house in which to film the production, however as this production has highly technical infrastructure, camera and edit requirements, an alternative is not immediately available,” the statement read.
However, effort was being made to find a solution as quickly as possible to ensure that Africa’s biggest reality show continued.
The Big Brother house is based at the Sesani Studios in Johannesburg and selected housemates from 14 countries are already in South Africa awaiting update on when the show would kick off.
