Gareth Cliff wins his Idols job back

Written by TVSA Team from the blog News on 29 Jan 2016
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The verdict is in.

Gareth Cliff needs to be reinstated as a judge on Idols and M-Net needs to pay his legal costs.

This from Judge Caroline Nicholls who gave the ruling in the High Court this morning, stating that she found that a contract existed between them and that it needs to be honoured.

The ruling comes a day ahead of the start of the Idols 12 auditions which begin in Durban tomorrow so it's not like things are going to be totes awks when Gareth plonks himself down on the judging panel, staring the M-Net cameras in the face.

Actors in this post: Gareth Cliff

Shows in this post: Idols

Channels in this post: M-Net

5 Comments

SANNTU WRANGER
29 Jan 2016 11:14

Viva Gareth Cliff, viva! And thank you Dali Mpofu. I love M-Net, but they were wrong to fire Gareth in the first place.

Ingenuity
29 Jan 2016 11:15

Sanity prevails.

max85
29 Jan 2016 11:54

Congrats to Gareth .M-net is stupid hw can u fire some1 because of few twitter comments ridiculous .Yolisa Phahle must be depressed now lol

TVSA Team
30 Jan 2016 13:04

This is M-Net's statement in response to the verdict:

"As ordered by the South Gauteng High Court, and as a good corporate citizen that respects the rule of law, M-Net will reinstate Mr Cliff as a judge on season 12 of Idols SA.

We believe we did the right thing by taking Mr Cliff off the show.

We remain committed to using our platforms to contribute to a united South Africa."

Ingenuity
01 Feb 2016 08:50

Well, they are basically saying that they are only giving him his job back cos the court told them to. There are labour rules mnet, these should be followed unless he grossly violated his contract terms, you have to follow processes to fire someone. Clearly there is someone with an axe to grind with Gareth at Mnet and if I was him I would keep my head down and keep my nose clean.

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