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And how did you decide what would be off limits? How did you decide where the boundaries would be or not?

(She laughs.) Well, ja. I’m a very private person and I was very nervous about showing my family, and of showing the inner workings of me and my life.

When you do a book or start a reality show, there’s some things – whether you like it or not – that you just have to be open about with people. At the end of the day a TV show has to be entertaining, it has to be gripping, it has to be full of drama.

So there are all those elements in Being Bonang there’s drama, there’s arguments, there’s disagreements, there are people being fired, there’s fights with my friends, with my management. There’s a bit of everything for everyone.

In the promo we saw tears. And in the SABC1 documentary a month or so back you were also very honest that you don’t let people see when you get affected by something, but that sometimes it does get to you. Being in the public eye, how do you stay strong and smile when you don’t feel like it?

I come from a very, very tight-knit family. My family huddle around me and I’m also really very spiritual – I go to church a lot, and I really do pray a lot and that’s where I get my strength.

And also my personality and the things I’ve been taught growing up – not being combative, not attending every argument you’re being inviting to. I’m just a thick-skinned person.

The 13 years that I’ve been in this industry, you kind of teach yourself certain things as well – how to deal with media, how to deal with colleagues, how to deal with work, how to deal with a busy schedule – all sorts of things.

I unpack it very well in my book, Bonang: From A to B, but also in Being Bonang we show you how I go about in terms of dealing with maybe not so nice situations  whether it’s family, friends, or even work.

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