Veteran actress Baby Cele is one of the new cast members who will be joining the Mzansi Wethu telenovela Sibongile & The Dlaminis for Season 2.
This comes months after Cele announced that she would be leaving SABC 1’s weekday drama series, Uzalo. She had been on the show for almost seven years, portraying the character of Gabisile Mdletshe.
According to media reports, Cele resigned because she wanted to spread her wings after playing the character of Gabisile for too long.
Time to move on
“I have played Gabisile for so many years. She became part of my life. So leaving feels like I have lost a part of me,” the actress said in an exclusive interview with IOL Entertainment.
“Uzalo was and will forever be my home. I was loved in the production, I had family, I was respected, and we worked well together. We worked well together, I had family, I was respected.”
Cele’s departure followed other significant changes within the Uzalo production. The exit of her on-screen son, portrayed by the Wiseman Mncube, was one of them.
She is joining Season 2 of Sibongile & The Dlaminis as Samkelisiwe, who is Bab’Ntombela’s sister. And it looks like she is set to shake things up for her former friends Deliwe and Phetheni.
Set to shake things up in new role
The three met as young women and connected over their shared experience of being scammed. But she got the short end of the stick in this friendship trio, which sets her on a path for revenge. She returns to Ixopo and turns some people’s lives upside down.
Cele will make her first appearance on the show on July 29.
She is well known for her roles on Backstage, Mzansi Magic’s Ring Of Lies, Saints and Sinners and recently Shaka Ilembe.
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