Are you a power couple? New TV show seeks contestants

South African television show is set to start shooting next month.

Over a hundred Cape Town couples spent Valentine’’s Day in long queues waiting in the heat to audition for the new reality show, Power Couple.

The couples were interviewed at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay on Saturday morning in the search for eight couples who will star in the show said to be a mixture between reality shows Fear Factor and Survivor.

Those who turned up varied from high school sweethearts to gay couples, with the first in line being 49-year-old lovers Derek Roberts and Rochelle Abrahams.

The pair who have been together for four years, tried to queue on Friday night but the late night rain forced them to head back home. They returned the next morning at 5am and past the time playing cards.

“We entered because we’re both turning 50 and wanted a challenge,” said Roberts.

They cracked the nod for the first round of auditions, but have another round of auditions to go through.

The show will be shot over six weeks at an undisclosed Camps Bay villa where couples will have a R50,000 weekly budget to bet on three challenges. If they don’t lose a single challenge throughout the show, they stand a chance of walking away with over R1million cash.

For South African National Defence Force colleagues Sanele Gumede,33, and Grace Bokaba, 29, — who are engaged to be married in April— it was their “love it was their “love for challenges” that made them audition.

“We are a fun, adventurous couple who love taking things to new heights.

“I believe we can do this because Sanele proposed within three months of us dating,” laughed Bokaba.

Couples in Durban will have a chance to audition for the show today (February 16) and those in Johannesburg can audition on February 28.

The show will air on M-Net in August.