Unathi Nkayi Reveals Reasons Behind Her And Somizi’s Feud. The pair were known to be passionately fond of one another but their friendship got strained after her divorce.
Unathi Nkayi and Somizi Mhlongo were known to be best of friends when they worked as colleagues discovering talent on Idols SA as judges. There had been rumours floating around that their friendship ended because Somizi’s ex-husband had accused Somizi of physical abuse and that is why Unathi had cut him off as she was against abuse of any kind. In actual fact, things took a left turn when Somizi made nasty remarks about Unathi and took her ex-husband’s side.
Speaking to Gareth Cliff on his podcast unCancelled about her fallout with Somizi, the former Kaya 959 presenter said, “Thomas and I got divorced. You [Gareth Cliff] and Randall Abrahams didn’t choose sides and he did. Even when we sat on the judging table and I was professional, he was choosing sides. It was fine for him to go on boy’s trips with Thomas, but we said you don’t cross this line now,” Nkayi said.
“He’d come back and speak smack about me on the same reality show, so now you’re showing your choosing sides. I don’t hate him, we haven’t fought, we just don’t have a relationship because he chose sides,” Unathi added about why she stopped talking to Somizi.
On an episode of Somizi’s reality TV show Living The Dream With Somizi , in a conversation with his friend Vusi Nova, Somizi had opened up about how he was hurt to have found out that one of his close friends a “certain lady” had shocked and disappointed him.
