Celebrity couple Bongekile 'Babes Wodumo' Simelane and Mandla 'Mampintsha' Maphumulo have posted images their first child on Social Media this week.
This comes as the trailer of their traditional wedding dropped this week on Showmax.
The first-look trailer for “Uthando Lodumo”, which follows Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha, gives a glimpse of the build-up to their traditional wedding.
"We're an open book in the way we live our lives,” says Babes in the Showmax original reality series.
The series follows her and the West Ink Records founder from his proposal live on air on Gagasi FM in October 2020 through marriage counselling, lobola negotiations, and pregnancy to their vibrant traditional wedding two months ago.
Babes burst onto the gqom scene with “Wololo”, featuring Mampintsha and Distruction Boyz, which racked up over 11 million views on YouTube alone, and was nominated as Record of the Year at the MTV Africa Music Awards and the South African Music Awards, among other places.
As Babes says in the trailer, “We were madly in love. We then made hit song after hit song. And we made a lot of money as a result.”
The couple, who has been in the spotlight in the past for their turbulent relationship trended again on Wednesday as a picture of them sitting at an unidentified hospital bed in KwaZulu Natal holding their child become public.
This set microblogging social media platform Twitter on fire with many of their followers congratulated them.
It remains unclear whether the birth of the child will form part of the mini-series set to go out later this month.
Babes wodumo and Mampintsha have a Baby. Congratulations 🍾❤️ pic.twitter.com/EeEjN3xPJi
— m a s h e s h a 💨 (@dollar_mashesha) June 16, 2021
So Tembisa 10 goes missing, suddenly Babes Wodumo has a kid...who else is gonna have a baby soon?🤔 pic.twitter.com/BEPYUGQpOn
— #Nobody®💯 (@OriGnal_TPelo) June 16, 2021
“Uthando Lodumo” is being produced and directed by South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA) winner Thomas Gumede and SAFTA nominee Lungile Radu through their production company, Parental Advisory.
“No one will be able to predict everything that happens in this show,” says Thomas. “We know it’s going to start a lot of conversations.”
All three episodes of the Showmax Original will be available to binge on 30 June 2021.
