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Diamond in the Ruff Cape Town Auditions

Written by Cheesa from the blog Cheesa Chat on 19 Oct 2011
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So I did say mos that I am going to go to the Diamond in the Ruff auditions right? So yah I was not joking I went on the Cape Town auditions last week Wednesday. I got so lost I wanted to turn back but I decided: no lemme go just to see what happens. 

The crew of the show doing their thing

I went mainly because of their advertisement that seemed like they don’t have many requirements for people to audition - and just to see what was going to happen and for the experience.

So after I got lost I finally found the place. I think I got there at about 14:30pm. When I arrived there was no queue, only people waiting on the street to show people where the auditions were taking place. What I don’t understand is why they were held at such a difficult place to find. 

The presenter of the show with Lerato Moloi 

They said the auditions will take place at 5 Weelgemend Street, Gardens - the suburb in Cape Town. It was not easy at all for people to find and the auditions happened at a guest house - not a public place that's easy to find like a centre or hall. So it was a mission shem to get to there.

The people who were waiting on the street told myself and another girl who arrived just after I got there that the auditions are no longer taking place at 5 Weelgemend Street. They have been moved to another guesthouse that's bigger than the initial venue. I was like: "what?" Hayike I can just leave but they told us there will be a transport to take us there. We waited a bit then we went to the next venue. 

Lerato Moloi was happy to take pics with everyone. She's a nice person shem...

When we got to the new venue there was no queue, just other girls who were sitting outside after their auditions. We asked them where must we go in. They showed us. We went in and asked another mlungu woman: “What must we do? We are here for auditions?” She told us to wait outside. We waited.

She came out with some stick with a black thingie tied on it. She measured us using the stick. She started with me and told me: “No you’re too short you can’t audition,” she left me puzzled thinking: "So I’m really not gonna audition? This woman must be joking." She did the same with the girl I was with and told her the same story. 

The two on the left didn't even get a chance to see the judges coz they're short. Cheesa in the middle..

We were so shocked like huh??? We came all the way and got so lost to be told we are too short! I asked the woman: "What if I wear my heels?" - coz I had them in the bag. She told me: “No you must be 1.7 cm tall without your heels.” I asked: “But why?” She said: “It’s because you won’t fit into the designer’s clothes.”

The girl I was with begged, telling the woman that the height thing is not in the advert and the woman told us: “The agent told me to do this. I am just helping here.” 

They told the girl on the right, she looks older than the age limit and her jewelry is not right :(

So that was it for us. We sat with the girls that had been there since the morning. I asked them what happened with them. Some of them were rejected because they look older than their age and another was rejected because she looks older than the age limit and they told her that her jewelry wasn't right. 

The girls said some girls left crying after they got rejected because of their height. Another girl said that she managed to go inside to see the judges but they told her she her looks older than 18 which is her age, tjo! 

She was told she looks older than her age, 18... but she managed to get the presenter's digits hayi shem she was totally taken by the dude and I wondered... O_o

I asked what happened when they were inside. They said the judges asked them questions and told them to walk up and down the stage and then they decided whether it was a "no" or "yes". Another girl was told to wait outside, they would tell her the verdict later.

I asked them if Lerato Moloi, Noni Gasa and Simphiwe Mpye were there. Phela I wanted to see Simphiwe Mpye more than anything, the brother is hot bathong. They said only Lerato Moloi is there and she is not the judge. She was only observing what was happening. 

They told her to wait for the verdict, I wonder if they took her...

Hayi ke thina who didn’t get a chance to even go inside we spent the time taking pictures with everyone. The presenter of the show is another guy (dunno his name) apparently he's also on Rhythm City as Crisis - who's working with Thula etc etc etc. When I saw him I thought" "Yazi I have seen this guy somewhere," but didn’t know where - my sis told me he acts on Rhythm City.

I also saw the woman who is in the Tastic rice ad. The one who cooks another brand of rice and her family runs to next door? Yah that one - she's also one of the judges. I wont lie shem I was surprised that she is the judge. Like why is she the judge? Will wait for the show maybe they will explain it. 

In the dress is the woman who told me I can't take a pic of the judge * @_@ rme *

I asked to take a picture of her - I think she'd come from lunch or something. She asked “Why”? I told her I just want a picture of her coz she is one of the judges. She refused kwaphela and this other woman - I don’t know whether she was her assistant or what - also told me with some attitude that: “No, no the judges do not take pictures” I was left a bit confused as to why? 

So in all what I figured is that these people are not going according to their advert. They mislead people with the advert. They do have a certain look that they looking for even though they didn’t make it clear in their ad. In the advert they made it seem like they don’t have the “typical model” requirements.

They made it seem like they just want any normal girl who wants to be a model. Kanti when you go to the auditions it’s a different story. I’m sure many people who are not the typical model type have gone thinking they stand a chance to be taken kanti nope! 

I wouldn’t have even set my foot there if I knew about the height thing knowing that I am short. Maybe they did this to get a high number of people coming for auditions I dunno …



16 Comments

Tashi
19 Oct 2011 11:49

Cheesa - I'm shocked, shocked, SHOCKED. I cant' believe they did that! They were so specific that it's for all sizes and shapes - how can they change the requirements at the venue?! I'm speechless.

blueroze
19 Oct 2011 12:02

Bathong @ Cheesa! They are really mad to that to you guys. Can't you sue or something?

Cheesa
19 Oct 2011 12:42

LOL! I was actually not mad about the whole thing coz I expected anything. Thats what they do in these auditions mos... But it was shocking to find that they dont go according to people's expectations. 

LOL! Blueroze...

swazzy
19 Oct 2011 13:06

Underline "ALL SHAPES AND SIZES".... _ anyway u still beautiful wena cheesa

zam.ngcobo
19 Oct 2011 13:07

Hhayi this is wrong man .........and their attitude stinks big time ! 
I cant believe i got all excited for nothing ,and  to tell these gals they look older then their age ......leaves me speechless

Chix
19 Oct 2011 13:08

LOL Bluerose at SUEING... @Cheesa are you here in CPT kanti... or did you travel all the way from Jozi to here just to be told you are SHORT!!! But seriously this aint on!!!

makisto
19 Oct 2011 13:54

Iyo Cheesa, these people are very confuse dshem, they don't know what they wantI am telling you and they will not find anything shem. Kwaaaaaaaa @ being measures by a stick *dead4dayzzzzz*

At least you are giving them the kind of publicity they deserve lol

Toxic
19 Oct 2011 14:17

Lol Cheesa.

I dropped off my cousin's daughter at Shine studios yesterday, just after 8.30am. Yeah we knew auditions start at 10 but she wanted to be amongst the first to be seen so she wouldn't be stuck in long queues neh.

Anyway, she walked in with my lil sis and i saw them get inside the shine studios and figured there is a waiting area inside. Went to my meeting, came out at 10am, called her to find out how far she is and she tells me they are now waiting outside the venue along Smit street, so i drove past just to see. YHOOOOOOO!!!!! The queue was moerse long shem, i couldn't even spot her and she was waving at me.

Not so long story short, she got to the door, was measured using that stick and was told she isn't tall enough. they want girls to be 1.7cm and above.  What i find extremely annoying is that there is no other stick ke that someone from the production company can use to measure these girls while they are standing in the queue. the height requirement has NEVER been advertised. we wouldn't have gone there in the first place if we'd known.

Shem standing in long queues, in high heels, in that terrible WINDY weather was no child's play. Some girls were turned away because they don't have the right look, one because she is TOO pretty and can apply her own makeup. a colleague's lil sister was turned away because she had NO make up on. WTF?!

Silver lining is they got  deets of some person from shine who told them to send their pics for castings...so maybe something positive will come out of this nightmare.

Phew!

Toxic
19 Oct 2011 14:19

Oh and yes, they both said Lerato is pretty friendly.

carino
19 Oct 2011 14:19

#deadness by the tone of this article.

zam.ngcobo
19 Oct 2011 14:22

YOH @ Toxic !!!!! thats hetic stuff !

qaqamba
19 Oct 2011 14:40

@CHEESA , HAYI WENA WEDNESDAY IN C.T.?why u didnt tell us?????

AFTNOON ALL.

Cheesa
19 Oct 2011 15:03

LoL thanx swazzy...

At least you are giving them the kind of publicity they deserve lol yazi Maki I didnt want to publish this article coz I knew I would be giving them some sort of "publicity" but thought lemme take it out...

Yoh Tox your cousin's daughter got there early and still had to wait in the queue! Tjo thats hectic. 

What i find extremely annoying is that there is no other stick ke that someone from the production company can use to measure these girls while they are standing in the queue. 
LOL so true imagine waiiting on a queue the whole day to be told at the door when you have to get in that you are short you cant audition! Yhu thats not right shem. They should have had many sticks to measure people ke so that they leave immediately if they are short not wait there the whole day!

I am glad I didnt get there when there was a queue. But I was mad that I took half day only to be told I am short. Now come dezemba I have less leave days nx!

Some girls were turned away because they don't have the right look, one because she is TOO pretty and can apply her own makeup. a colleague's lil sister was turned away because she had NO make up on. WTF?! He banna this thing is confusing mos these people also seem like they dont know what they require from people. 

I think Lerato begged the judges to give the girl they told she looks older than the age limit to give her another chance because we also left her there waiting with the other girl...

Chix I am in Cape Town gal...

Qaks the details were here on TVSA nje kaloku you dont visit here regularly...

Toxic
19 Oct 2011 15:41

PIC of measuring stick HERE

Cheesa
19 Oct 2011 17:09

Yah! That is the "magic stick" that caused many to be turned down. And people on that FB page are also not happy...it shows that many people were fooled here. It is false advertising indeed!

zam.ngcobo
19 Oct 2011 18:42

I see a lot of people are very upset ......I dont blame them .


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