The usually high brow weekly magazine show from Tswelope Productions (which is not a Girls Gone Wild video) showed viewers an insert on Thursday evening covering the wedding of Free State Cheetah's rugby player Robert Ebersohn and bride Mariza.
The programme decided to show female wedding guests jump for the bridal bouquet as it is thrown.
Bizarrely Top Billing decided to deliberately leave in and show viewers how the dress of the girl standing in the front lifts up while she jumps, exposing her polka dot underwear to the whole nation.
The wedding guest is seen fixing and pulling her dress back down again after the unintended overexposure.
A good laugh while showing some of the good life, or trashy pandering?
Every TV show has an unspoken pact with its audience - the programme makes an offering of what it is, its values, what it stands for and what it will show you, and the viewer has an expectation of what you are going to get, and decide to accept it or not by watching or tuning away.
If you watch Big Brother Africa you know the more risque, seedier type of television to expect. If you watch Top Billing you know the type of television to expect.
Showing a wedding guest's panties in Top Billing in a bad moment is not what Top Billing sells itself to the viewer of what it is and the type of show it tries to be, yet that is exactly the lowbrow television is stooped to on Thursday evening.
If this was the wedding of the daughter of a Top Billing producer, ask yourself, would you have seen something like this on television if it happened from that wedding, or would it not make it to broadcast as it did here?
If this was the wedding of the daughter of a Top Billing producer, ask yourself, would you have seen something like this on television if it happened from that wedding, or would it not make it to broadcast as it did here?
