She was hard to ignore then. Now, as a co-host on the Podcast and Chill Network\u2019s Read The Room alongside Londie London and Phil Mphela, she has found a platform that fits her in a way that other projects rarely do.<\/p>\n
On the night the young star caught up with The Citizen, she was at the invitation-only premiere of Life With Londie \u2013 Londie London\u2019s new solo reality series on Mzansi Magic (DStv channel 161), which airs every Thursday at 8pm.<\/p>\n
The friendship nobody planned<\/p>\n
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Shamiso Mosaka at the invite-only premiere of Life With Londie on Mzansi Magic. Picture: Supplied, Capture Studios for Londie London <\/p>\n
Shamiso and Londie did not start as friends. They started as strangers who became colleagues, and the friendship grew from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew of her. I always liked her on Real Housewives of Durban, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever actually met her in person before Read The Room. That was the first time we had a real close encounter,\u201d Shamiso told The Citizen.<\/p>\n
What makes their dynamic interesting is the way it resists easy categorisation. <\/p>\n
Shamiso is younger, so she bristles at the kind of mentorship that borders on condescension, and she is candid about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of girls that I\u2019ve been friends with that are older than me \u2018little-sister\u2019 me too much, in a way that I feel undermined,\u201d she says, with the particular directness she has become known for.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like, yo, I understand you\u2019re older than me, and you have more life experience in certain departments, but I\u2019m still an individual. You need to trust that some of these decisions I made myself, and I back them.<\/p>\n
\u201cLondi\u2019s always been great at being a friend but also being like, \u2018hey, I know this, but that\u2019s your life.\u2019 Some people impose, you know? She\u2019s got a beautiful heart. As spicy as she is, she\u2019s so kind, really and truly.\u201d<\/p>\n
A different kind of reality TV veteran<\/p>\n
Shamiso\u2019s experience with the genre means she came to the premiere with a specific frame of reference that Londie clearly valued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018Are you ready again?\u2019,\u201d she laughs, recalling the first thing she told Londie when she found out about Life With Londie. \u201cThat\u2019s literally what I asked. Are you ready again?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Shamiso Mosaka at the Life With Londie premiere, where she spoke candidly about her friendship with Londie London and her new YouTube venture. Picture: Supplied, Capture Studios for Londie London <\/p>\n
Then came the endorsement:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re bearing it all, because she was like, \u2018no, I\u2019m setting the record straight, it\u2019s everything, my kids,\u2019 I was like, \u2018yo, if you\u2019re doing that, you don\u2019t need a co-star. Your life is interesting enough, like truly.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Shamiso understands what it costs to let cameras in, but where Londie does that solo, Shamiso had the cover of an ensemble cast.<\/p>\n
So who is Shamiso, really?<\/p>\n
When asked to give the people who have not given her a fair chance an entry point into who she is, she plainly says:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you see is what you get. If you see it and you don\u2019t like it, you probably won\u2019t like me. If you see it and you love it, you\u2019re probably going to be obsessed. I\u2019m very genuine.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is careful to define that word, though. Genuine, she says, does not mean palatable.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenuine doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re always going to be palatable. I mean genuine in the sense that what you see is what you get, what I say is what I mean, and I mean what I say. I like what I like, I like who I like, I don\u2019t like who I don\u2019t like. But at least I\u2019m not pretending.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a big f***ing heart. The biggest heart of anyone I know. I wish there were ten of me in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mental health conversation she refuses to make comfortable<\/p>\n
There is a version of celebrity mental health advocacy that stays safely in the lane of inspirational, and this young star has never been interested in that lane.<\/p>\n
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Shamiso Mosaka at the Life With Londie premiere, where she spoke candidly about her friendship with Londie London and her new YouTube venture. Picture: Supplied, Capture Studios for Londie London <\/p>\n
She has spoken openly about her own journey, including a borderline personality disorder diagnosis, and when the subject comes up in our conversation, she goes straight to the part most people politely avoid.<\/p>\n
\u201cPsychiatrists, psychologists, they\u2019re expensive as sh*t,\u201d she says, flatly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo are antidepressants and medication. I don\u2019t want to speak in a tone-deaf way where I know I\u2019m also speaking to people whose parents don\u2019t support it, maybe they\u2019re still students, maybe they don\u2019t have the financial strength.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also makes it clear that she is not dismissing professional help, noting that she has accessed it herself, including a period in a psychiatric facility during a particularly low point.<\/p>\n
But she is clear that the way the conversation is usually framed \u2013 \u201cget help, go to therapy\u201d \u2013 assumes a set of circumstances that a significant portion of her audience simply does not have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been to an institution where I felt like I was too depressed to even function. But I know not everyone has that privilege, and depression doesn\u2019t discriminate \u2013 so I can\u2019t just talk to people who have the privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n
For people who may not have the privilege, she offers the value of reading up, learning your own patterns, equipping yourself with language for what you are experiencing, even when the formal support systems are out of reach \u2013 something that younger generations are criticised for because of the apparent ubiquity of therapy speak and self-diagnosis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have borderline personality disorder. I read up on myself where I can understand when I\u2019m having a manic episode, when I\u2019m splitting, not that I don\u2019t need assistance, but assist yourself as much as you can. Because this stuff isn\u2019t cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next chapter<\/p>\n
In addition to Read The Room, Shamiso is preparing to launch Tattoo Tours with Shamiso, a YouTube show she describes with the enthusiasm of someone who has found the exact project they were meant to make.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sit down with a guest while they get a tattoo and I interview them. I interview the tattoo artist. I feel like there\u2019s not enough of that highlighted in the Black community,\u201d she says, beaming. <\/p>\n
She has already shot her first episode, and the format, built around two of her defining passions, feels like a natural extension of what she has always done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Born Into Fame to podcast co-host: Shamiso Mosaka on her no-filter approach to fame, friendship and mental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[6491,102,1906,6623,6502,7482,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-celebrities","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-reality-show","tag-reality-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}