{"id":2865,"date":"2016-11-17T21:28:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2016-11-17T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:28:47","slug":"spellbound-starts-with-special-celebrity-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/spellbound-starts-with-special-celebrity-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellbound Starts With Special Celebrity Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepare to be Spellbound!<\/strong>
\nFun-filled new M-Net show kicks off with famous faces in the hot seat. How well can they S-P-E-L-L?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They grace our television screens and are known for their eloquence and superlative communication skills. But who will fare the best when their language skills are put to the test in a pressure-cooker environment? M-Net\u2019s brand new family-friendly game show Spellbound kicks off with a very special celebrity episode this week Sunday (20 November) at 17:00.<\/p>\n

Carte Blanche\u2019s Devi Sankaree Govender, who used to be an Afrikaans teacher before becoming a formidable investigative journalist, will press pause on catching crooks to possibly win money for charity on the Spellbound stage, while kykNET\u2019s Verslag host and editor of Rapport newspaper, Waldimar Pelser, will bring spelling skills from his journalistic background to the show, despite English being his second language. The Voice SA\u2019s quirky V-Reporter and 94.7 DJ Stacey Norman will see if she can prove that she has the vocabulary to match that voice for radio and face for TV, and VUZU AMP\u2019s Dineo Ranaka is out to demonstrate that penning all those entries into Dineo\u2019s Diary has stood her in good stead\u2026<\/p>\n

Hosted by Jason Greer and Vanessa Marawa, Spellbound will test contestants\u2019 word skills in a fun and interactive way and throughout the season, the show will include super spellers from different age groups. There will be a round for primary school learners between the ages of 10 and 13, a round for high school learners between the ages of 14 and 18, and rounds for adults of all ages. But for the premiere episode, these four well-known faces will brave the spelling spotlight to play for a possible R100 000 for a charity of their choice.<\/p>\n

Devi will be taking part for the Carte Blanche Making a Difference Trust, which provides pediatric units in hospitals with life-saving equipment. Dineo is playing for a charity that is close to her mother\u2019s heart, Little Eden, which cares for persons with intellectual disabilities, while Waldimar will be spelling to make money for Die Rapport Onderwysfonds which provides financial support to students who are studying towards a teacher\u2019s qualification. Stacey will be hoping to make big money for Dignity Dreams, a cause with which she works very closely, which helps girls gain access to sanitary wear that they can\u2019t otherwise afford.<\/p>\n

Tune in to see who\u2019s who \u2013 or should that be whose who? \u2013 in the spelling spotlight, and watch as one celebrity word whizz in particular receives a surprise of a lifetime, all in the name of a good cause.<\/p>\n

Spellbound will be broadcast on M-Net Channel 101 on Sunday, 20 November from 17:00 \u2013 17:30.<\/p>\n

For more information, exclusive videos and snippets from behind-the-scenes, visit www.mnet.tv\/spellbound<\/a> or follow the conversation on Twitter @MNet<\/a> or with the hashtag #MNetSpellbound<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prepare to be Spellbound! Fun-filled new M-Net show kicks off with famous faces in the hot seat. How well can they S-P-E-L-L? They grace our television screens and are known for their eloquence and superlative communication skills. But who will fare the best when their language skills are put to the test in a pressure-cooker… Continue reading Spellbound Starts With Special Celebrity Episode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-mnet","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}