Cape Town – A Massive fire has engulfed M-Net's Big Brother Africa Hotshots house at Sasani Studios, leading to the immediate cancellation of the start of the the upcoming 9th season of the pan-African voyeur reality show which was set to begin this Sunday 7 September on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform.
No-one was injured in the blaze which engulfed the studio at Highlands North in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The cause of the fire which erupted and plunged the production into further crisis is not known. Production company Endemol South Africa and M-Net had no choice but to cancel the start of the show which has seen multiple production challenges the past few weeks before the cameras had even started rolling.Read more