ME A BULLY? NO WAY!

Widowed housewife and construction mogul from Gqeberha Liz Prins packs a punch

- NOKUTHULA ZWANE-EJIKE

SHE’S been called a bully and a hurricane, doesn’t mince her words when it comes to her fellow housewives’ looks and has as much contempt for bakkie drivers as she has for a badly coordinated outfit. Any way you look at it, Liz Prins is a force of nature and she’s had her fair share of critics. But does she care? Not in the slightest.

“Honestly, it doesn’t bother me,” she tells YOU. “I know the person I am.”

Liz is one of five cast members on The Real Housewives of Gqeberha (RHOG) and has been making waves and raising eyebrows from the start.

In the first episode she tells Ashleigh Mather, the youngest housewife, “I usually sit at the head of the table,” when they go to a dinner party hosted by fellow housewife and former Idols SA contestant Buli G Ngomane.

She proceeds to critique Ashleigh’s outfit, and viewers laid into her for being mean to the bubbly, young homemaker.

Liz then shows her nicer side when she invites Ashleigh to her salon to get her hair done – but don’t be fooled into thinking Liz has gone soft.

There’s plenty more drama on the horizon and the friction between the two women is palpable at times.

“I literally have nothing to say about her,” Liz says. “People who know me don’t look at me as a bully. Everybody who knows me, knows who I am.”

The RHOG cast includes Norma Nicol, a pal of Liz’s, and salon owner Unathi Faku. Liz met Norma at events before the series started and they became close during the show. “She’s a great confidante,” she tells us.

The RHOG is the first series of the franchise to be set in the Windy City and Liz was initially thrilled when she was invited to join.