ANN7 Anchors Fall Short on Reality Shows

A few weeks ago I wrote about two ANN7 anchors, Lauren Jenae and Mbali Nkosi, who decided to try their luck at stardom in the typical celebrity sense by entering BET's Top Actor and Mzansi Magic's Big Brother Mzansi, respectively.

Unfortunately this past week both of them were eliminated from their respective reality shows.

Lauren made it to the top seven on Top Actor, while Mbali made it to the final week of Big Brother, ultimately finishing third. 

Though I am against news anchors doing reality shows in search of stardom (I mean, it is going to be hard watching Mbali on ANN7 again after viewers got to watch her bath on Big Brother), it was nice seeing a dimension to them that they seem to be stifling behind the news desk and would be nice to see them bring it to the news and liven up their rather dull on air presentation.

Lauren was back on air this past weekend (and is filling in for Karabo Yibe this week).

[On a somewhat related note, Lauren Jenae has joined the on air team at Hot 91.9fm, the same station where fellow ANN7er Gladys Sithole is at]