Cheeky Somizi responds to Dinner at Somizi’s idea stealing allegations
Media personality Somizi Mhlongo has been accused of stealing the Dinner at Somizi’s concept. An email screenshot resurfaced online showing a communication from creative and scriptwriter Hastings Moeng to Somizi.
In the email Moeng pitched an idea to Somizi, the idea resembles everything about the current Dinner at Somizi’s show.
Responding to the allegations Somizi took to Instagram singing along to Kelly Khumalo song Empini which talks about haters and never giving up.
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Dinner at Somizi’s fans vowed to remain loyal to the program despite idea copying allegations.
No hard feelings, its just business. If you sit on your idea… someone else will run with it, Somizi will raise.
Lies. This one is an hour show with only friends of Somizi. His guests do sweat it out in the kitchen, they just stand there chat and if anything, only cut an onion. There’s is also cocktail, mocktail or smoothy offering at the end with Somizi chasing his guests away & motivate
It amazing how this guy has managed to convince everyone to take his side. He didn’t come up cooking shows, there’s plenty of shows like these on t.v. Somizi could’ve been inspired by any of them.
Previously Savannanews reported that Multichoice accused of stealing Celebrity Mystery Box concept, a show where celebrities goes head to head in a cooking contest. The concept was stolen from Cheryl Chelsea Vilakazi’s Celebrity Drop Box concept.
Celebrity Mystery Box
Two celebrities, two kitchens and one mystery box of ingredients. The winner gets R10 000 for themselves and R5 000 for their favourite charity.
The Celebrity Mystery Box concept was allegedly stolen from creative Cheryl Chelsea Vilakazi and was submitted Mnet channels a few months ago now.
Posting on social media Facebook user Paul Vivian Llewellyn posted the first page of the stolen concept document entitled Celebrity Drop Box read more here