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Carte Blanche 20th Birthday Goss & Hairpics!

Written by Tashi from the blog Tashi's TV on 12 Sep 2008
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Carte Blanche recently celebrated the show's 20th birthday with a black tie shindig at Jozi's Monte Casino.  I went along to scoop out who was getting-up-to-what for us and - between six glasses of vodka - got mesmerised by people's hair.

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Carte Blanche presenter Devi Sankaree Govender ....

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Everyone went wild with both their out- and hairfits - no-one could have been too glitzy for things.

The Menu

The evening started with people arriving for cocktails etc before moving on to supper, round cango caves decorated tables:

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The menu was a surf and turf consisting of:
1 x piece of chicken
1 x piece of steak
1 x potato concoction
1 x veggie pastry.

Shaleen Surtie Richards spent supper with her serviette tucked into her boobs ...
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Knowing the goss we've heard about her chick-lurrrve/ BBAfrica2's Maureen etc, I got rigour (rigourmortis) when she grabbed me to be in a pic ...

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Once supper was over everyone went to the Monte Casino Theatre to watch a performance of Lord of the Dance.

The Right To Know

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Snapped unknowingly: Derek Watts preparing a speech

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Spotted

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Interesting there's so much I thought - Advanced Hair Studio obviously did something.

Before Lord Of The Dance began Derek looked back at the history of Carte Blanche, with footage of past shows. The thing that struck me most watching was how lucky we are to be free - to have the right to be able to see the stuff the show exposes.

They showed a clip of a lion getting shot and how Carte Blanche had exposed the killers and I kept thinking: imagine if there was censorship and none of this was allowed. It's not something you think about or imagine daily yet it wasn't long ago that we had it - freaky-hectic stuff.

Oh Lord

As for Lord of the Dance - I was disappointed. From all the hype about it I was expecting much more. The girls hardly tapped and no-one moved anything except their feet. I know it's the style but still, it's not nearly enough for hours on end.

Also the costumes were SO last decade, there was too much music with nothing happening and there was a singer who kept interrupting things - she sang three yawny songs that must have lasted at least five minutes each and they all sounded the same.

I told the lead dancer Ciaran my concerns while scrutinising his locks - he wears them loose for the show:

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Hair Spotted Partying

At 10:30pm-ish I hit the after-party with music that was played by whatsisname ...  the guy who keeps changing his name ... Jonathan in Project Fame/Nathan Ro in Isidingo. 

He's got a group called Lone Hill Estate and they played a medley of music ranging from Grease Lightning to Mandoza. The trouble is I didn't take a pic of his hair 'cos I refused to believe it was him - I actually bet someone R1000 it wasn't. He looks so different you have no idea - as if he's been smoking it up in Woodstock for years.

This dude looks more like him than he himself does:

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Wynand - on the Carte Blanche production team.

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Carte Blanche presenter Bongani Bongwa trying to look as casual as poss. in his brush-cut.  I took this pic at least four times to get the effect. According to Bongani, Juliet Roberts advises never to have a pic taken while ... - can't remember what ... either eating or smiling too much.

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Bongani's date Lolo

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Ringlets were all the rage - lots of peeps had them.

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Nicole - owner of the rings

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Most "Cool!" hair jewellery spotted.

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Lindi - winner of the award

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Most Trippy Do

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Valdy - winner of the award, who's the splitting image of Susan from Swingtown.

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All the Lord Of The Dance dancers have hair like this - they all wear wigs, except for

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Maeve.

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Brumilda van Rensburg in the thick of things - she was much more concerned about chomping down the nuts on the table than she was about her hair.

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Carte Blanche presenter John Webb's got no hairstyle so a passer-by gave him attitude instead.

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Carte Blanche presenter Bonita Gorrie-Nuttall in crip-crop hair to match her Hip Hop dress ...

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Final Cuts

Ruda Landman was nowhere to be spotted. She was in Cape Town with her son who's performing in a play.

At the time of the party Carte Banche had raised R18 million for their "Make A Difference" birthday initiative. Their target's R20 million and it's going to hospitals to help children specifically. Some of the hospital's include ones they've told stories about on the show and in some of the cases - where they've exposed things happening in the hospital - the hospital's turned down their offer of help.

There were lawyers at the party too. Apparently they work 24/7.

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4 Comments

Cande
12 Sep 2008 00:51

LMAO Tashi you soo crazy gal, cant believe you went around taking pics of people's hairstyle from all angles..

Devi's dress looks nice...

Your Vodka eyes Tashi? LMAO..

Nice one..

Toxic
12 Sep 2008 02:31

LMAO at pic2 of some people and pic one of 'Mattie'.......

myname
12 Sep 2008 04:21

So silly man hahahaha. Iyhooo Mattie & her "cleavage" No comment........And Devi looks amazing & i luv her dress.

Brown Shuga
12 Sep 2008 17:29

Hahahahah at the Advanced Studio comment lol Tashi...
So, how did you get them to agree to the hair shots? Heheheheh


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