{"id":8413,"date":"2019-04-16T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2019-04-16T20:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:13:34","slug":"21-conniving-castaways-to-create-fireworks-on-m-nets-survivor-sa-island-of-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/21-conniving-castaways-to-create-fireworks-on-m-nets-survivor-sa-island-of-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Conniving Castaways To Create Fireworks On M-Net’s Survivor SA: Island Of Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of them happens to be Mrs Cape Town 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once South Africa\u2019s first Bachelor has found \u201cthe one\u201d on M-Net channel 101, the much-awaited new season of Survivor South Africa will roll into the channel\u2019s popular Thursday night local productions slot at 19:00. Set in the beautiful Samoa, and spiced with all kinds of never-seen-before curveballs, twists and turns, Survivor SA: Island of Secrets will hit our screens on Thursday, 16 May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While M-Net and production company Afrokaans remain tight-lipped about what exactly this mysterious Island of Secrets will reveal, they have lifted the lid a little on the castaways. This season, a diverse group of 21 strong-willed individuals who believe they know the ins and outs of the greatest game on earth will be facing the harsh elements of Mother Nature \u2013 and even harsher mind games of their tenacious opponents, who all want to be the Ultimate Survivor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, South Africa will get an unusual first glimpse of these contenders. Eight of the castaways from Survivor SA: Island of Secrets will feature on a variety of advertising billboards that will start appearing throughout the country on Wednesday, 17 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the faces South Africans will see on a billboard belongs to a beautiful blonde mother of two, Lee-Anne van Renen, who interrupted her duties as reigning Mrs Cape Town 2018 to prove that her grit and resilience match her looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lee-Anne is bent on tearing up those stereotypical beauty queen labels. She\u2019s married to the bassist of the band Taxi Violence, holds an honours degree in Psychology, obtained five distinctions in matric, captained the KZN action netball team, counsels drug addicts and traumatised teens, and has survived several personal tragedies, including a cancer scare and double miscarriage. At first glance she may come across as sweet and kind-hearted \u2013 and she is \u2013 but there\u2019s a whole lot more to her. She has a spirit of steel. A mere month after the trauma of losing her twins, she completed the 947 cycle race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Lee-Anne pours her heart into NGOs making a difference in informal settlements like Zwellenemba in Worcester, she says she entered Survivor SA not only to win, \u201cbut also to step into the shoes of those who have absolutely nothing; no bed, no food, no warmth, no shelter\u201d. While she revels in deconstructing stigmas and stereotypes, she will happily act them out to deceive the other castaways. \u201cMy strategy is to kill them with kindness,\u201d she smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lani Lombard, M-Net\u2019s Head of Publicity, said of the show: \u201cWe handpicked fascinating, multi-faceted personalities from a variety of professions and age groups who are not all they seem to be on the surface. It\u2019s going to be a social experiment of note to observe how they manoeuvre through the conflicts that are bound to arise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The castaways on the billboards will be confirmed shortly, while the rest will be revealed closer to the first episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the latest updates on Survivor SA: Island of Secrets, go to mnet.tv\/survivorsa You can also be part of the conversation on Twitter \u2013 especially if you spot some of the billboards \u2013 using #SurvivorSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of them happens to be Mrs Cape Town 2018! Once South Africa\u2019s first Bachelor has found \u201cthe one\u201d on M-Net channel 101, the much-awaited new season of Survivor South Africa will roll into the channel\u2019s popular Thursday night local productions slot at 19:00. Set in the beautiful Samoa, and spiced with all kinds of… Continue reading 21 Conniving Castaways To Create Fireworks On M-Net’s Survivor SA: Island Of Secrets<\/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-8413","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\/8413","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=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}