I’ve finally decided to write a response to the aftermath of what is the Cliff Jennings story.
In my initial letter to News24 I vowed never to watch another episode. Well it took me 4 days to break that promise. Why? Because I wanted to see Cliff Jennings of course!
I wanted to see how MNET was going to explain the whole debacle.
Surprise, Surprise they neither confirmed nor denied the story.
What I find more interesting is the responses from other quarters.
The online community and fellow bloggers have come out is support of my amateur investigative journalism. Thank you all for your support (Shaun Oakes/Eishman and many others)
The responses on this blog and Facebook haven’t been so flattering. On Facebook there’s even a group called “I hate Bruinman”.
On this blog:
“get a life you brown piece of sh## “
“i hope you die a slow brown/black death”
“fokof hotnot”
“You're an absolute wanker! You obviously couldn't hack it as a journo, so you thought you'd bolsh your way in this way. Still won't get there. Such a dork.”
I must have upset quite a few people. I will however bet that he has disappointed more people than I’ve upset. He claims to be living the Dream and on his Facebook quotes he states more than once “Keep it real”. What was real about it? Numerous messages on Facebook have stated that Cliff is/was inspiration to many watchers of Idols. They have found out earlier than later that their inspiration was a fake. He was paid by an agency to do it. He is an actor. He did it for money.