Did she freak out?
*Laughs* Ja.

Does the snake lady do an act with a snake to music?
Ja.

So what does she do with it ? just dance?
The snake was actually pretty f***ing dead to be honest. Snakes are cold creatures ? if you don't do anything to warm them up they don't [do] anything so it wasn't that scary at all.

Do you know what kind of snake it was?
It was like a python.

Those bite, don't they?
No. They swallow you, don't they?

Oh? I don't know.
I think Shado thought it wasn't 'SA's Got Talent' but 'Snakes On A Plane'. Me and you, we?ve been to Malaysia [For Survivor SA], we know all about snakes, you know what I'm saying.

Yes exactly, we know all about them. (Not!) Can you share with us ? an act that's "Urgh!" So unbelievably bad.
There's a singer who's a bit of a horror story ? she writes her own songs. She's from Jo'burg ? she's pretty special ? bearing in mind that she also thinks she's pretty special. She's a double whammy ? she's delusional and at the same time she's pretty damn bad.

Is it excellent fun pressing the buzzer?
The only trouble is you can't hit it when the other judges are speaking. Sometimes they started speaking and I wanted to hit it but you're only allowed to press it for the other acts.

So you wanted to slap the other judges?
Yes. I just wanted to press the buzzer.

Who's your all-time talent hero ? or shero?
I imagine it would be Billy Holiday. You know there are two issues when it comes to talent: usually when you talk about great talent, you also talk about great adversity.

Someone who's mega talented and also has people to help them and has an easy path: unfortunately their story doesn't carry as much weight as someone who had overcome great obstacles and hurdles.

The thing about Billy is ? we're talking about a technological age far removed from our own and she ? at one stage she lived in a whorehouse with her mother. Her mother wasn't a hooker but she lived in a whorehouse.

It's where she first heard Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet and she figured out that she needed to sing like he played the trumpet ? this is like in the 1930s.

To firstly have that level of imagination and then secondly to actually bring it to bare and thirdly to grow up under those circumstances and be a success ? that for me is quite special.