Her son’s first birthday was the event that built anticipation for the whole reality show.
Everyone wanted to know who could be throwing a birthday party worth R250 000 for a child, even though he might not even remember having it when he is an adult.
Rocking a Burberry two-piece outfit, Nunurai Mudarikwa set the standard high with the party to shut down all parties on the first episode of The Mummy Club.
Although Mrs Mops wasn’t all too impressed with her outfit, she couldn’t care less and that was just about enough to show us that she is a character that does not suffer from ‘abantu bazothini’ syndrome.
She, however, came under fire for spending that much money on the party.
Addressing this in an interview with Drum, she says, “I feel like it was just a normal party honestly. Coming from the eyes of an events planner, obviously I have been bigger parties for some people with bigger budgets so for me, I don’t think the party was that big, but I do understand when people say that they wouldn’t do that (throw a party that big and expensive).”
Being an events planner, Nunurai has served in that front and was recently disappointed when the other glamorous Joburg mommies, particularly Ratile Mabitsela, were not pulling their weight.
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In the fifth and latest episode of the show, Ratile hosts what is supposed to be a ‘Girls With Four Pipes’ event in Tembisa and to the other mommies’ surprise, it was just a regular lunch.
“When she said four pipes in Tembisa, I’m thinking that we’re going to be in the hood revving the cars and doing the whole thing when you convoy around and just feel the kasi vibe. But it was like taking us to a mall, it was so underwhelming. I would’ve wanted better. I would’ve wanted to experience the real Tembisa. When they say Tembisa, they don’t mean the mall, they mean inside.
“Based on that event, I would rate Ratile a three out of 10 [because] the food was really good. The three goes to the food. Other than that, no ways,” she says.
Nunurai tells Drum that the former Miss Tembisa and mother of five should have just said it was a lunch date and not hype it up as a car event.
So far, how she maneouvres in her relationships with the other ladies has also raised a few eyebrows.
Highlighted previously, people’s life updates and stories find their way to her lap, and they don’t stay too long in her chest.
Instead, she transports the news.
Although it may have come across as gossiping to Mrs Mops and Her Majesty, to Nunurai, it is not.
“The problem with this situation is [that] a secret is only a secret if you’re told that it is a secret. If you tell me a story, it’s a story, I can tell it to anyone.”
Giggling, she adds that she has earned a reputation as the IT mom that always has tea to serve because “the ladies keep telling me stories so it’s not like they say, ‘it’s a secret’ [because then] I’ll keep quiet, I won’t tell anyone”.
Reiterating that stories are meant to be told, she also says that she doesn’t remember Her Majesty’s engagement news being a secret and that’s why she threw hints about it at Ratile’s event.
Weirdly enough, little to nothing about her personal life is usually a subject of the mommies’ table.
To that, the momfluencer and businesswoman says an episode where everyone will get to know her better is going to come because she has nothing to hide.
“My husband is not a secret, it’s just his choice to not be on TV and I totally understand him [because] the first time we were shooting, we were told we are shooting at this time [but] we started shooting two hours later and he’s got work to do.”
From this first experience, her husband knew that he wouldn’t be able to commit to the reality show and that’s why he is never seen in the show.
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“There’s a whole episode coming exclusively centred around me,” says the mother of one.
In the character we know her to be though, she hopes that she has brought on her A-game to reality tv as this is her debut in the industry.
Going into The Mommy Club, she wanted to bring some realness because “sometimes when it comes to reality show, people always wanted to be perfect [so] I just wanted people to experience me and the real side of being a mom because it’s been a lot. Being a mom is the hardest job ever.”
The owner and CEO of Nulu flowers and Nulu events shares with Drum that this is the second opportunity to be on a reality TV show because with the first opportunity which was wedding-related, she wasn’t comfortable sharing her private traditional wedding with the world.
With the timing having felt different, she saw this one as an opportunity to also market her businesses as she was in the process of planning out her plans for the year when she got the casting call in January 2023.
