News : Gareth Cliff Admits That He Spiked Mara Louw With Vodka

Gareth Cliff is the name on everybody’s lips right now, but it’s for all the wrong reasons.The outspoken (former) Idols judge released his controversial book over the weekend but it’s not exactly making a beeline for the best seller list.

A controversial excerpt from the book has been leaked to the public where Gareth admits that he spiked Mara’s drink the night that she got drunk and slurred badly on SA Idols. People were not the least bit pleased about this chapter in his story.

Gareth Cliff is literally the quintessential South African white boy

I recognise him in the people I went to high school with

— Z U K O (@ZCawe1) November 27, 2016

When we see Gareth Cliff on our screens. #IdolsSAFinale pic.twitter.com/OAQpS3ykiM

— Olwethu Sipuka (@osipuka) November 27, 2016

Mara Louw slurred drunkenly on live television before swearing rather hysterically on SA Idols. The former judge was dismissed from the show after the incident. Mara talks about that night in her own upcoming autobiography:

“That was a terrible time for me. I later learnt from one of the contestants and a production member that the drink I was given by one of my colleagues was laced with vodka. You’ll be shocked at what lengths people will go to get you fired in this industry when they want to put in their friends.”

Meanwhile, here is the portion in Gareth’s book where he reveals that he gave Mara the vodka:

It’s not common practice to have a drink on set, but that evening one of the crew brought a bottle of vodka for a pre-show celebratory drink. I passed Marah her drink and all was well until halfway through the show when she became a touch emotional, or maybe delirious. Needless to say, the press had a field day and I was the one Marah threw under the bus during a radio interview the next day

He also had this to say about Mara Louw:

“I don’t hate Marah. That night I drove her home, made sure she got into her house safely and then went back to collect my car and drove home. Nobody tells that story. I loved her, she was like our mama on the show and she’d tell the most hysterical stories and she was great and then she spun out that one night and now it’s everybody else’s fault. I had no beef with her up to the very end, I was one of the people who still called her after the show ended”.

Source: News : gareth cliff admits that he spiked mara louw with vodka mtv.co.za