Here's to a home-grown, self-obsessed reality star

12 June 2016 - 02:00
By Rebecca Davis

Rebecca Davis isn't quite sure what else 'Idols' judge Somizi Mhlongo does, but his reality show is a trip Somizi Mhlongo provided the only watchable element of Idols for its most recent season. For a long time, however, I couldn't figure out what he actually did for a living. Surely he couldn't be a professional Idols judge? One minute Somizi was relatively unknown, and in the next he seemed to be everywhere.

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