Adrienne Bailon-Houghton Celebrates Life in South Africa While Filming Cheetah Girls Next Gen

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton Celebrates Life in South Africa While Filming Cheetah Girls Next Gen

  • Adrienne Bailon-Houghton shared a carousel post on Instagram on 8 September 2026 celebrating life in South Africa
  • The actress is in Mzansi filming Disney's highly anticipated Cheetah Girls: Next Gen and has been soaking up the culture
  • South Africans flooded her comments after her previous post, and Bailon-Houghton clapped back in the most playful way
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton Celebrates Life in South Africa While Filming Cheetah Girls Next Gen
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Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is clearly having the time of her life in South Africa, and Mzansi is eating it all up. The American actress posted a new Instagram carousel on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, captioned "Celebrating life ✨🎂🇿🇦 Last slide is for everyone who commented on my last post. lol." — a cheeky nod to locals who had a lot to say about her previous upload.

Cheetah Girls Next Gen Brings Bailon-Houghton to Mzansi

The actress is in the country filming Disney's much-anticipated reboot, *Cheetah Girls: Next Gen*, and has been open about how deeply the experience has moved her. In an earlier post, she wrote: "SET LIFE 🐾🎬♠️CHEETAH GIRLS NEXT GEN! My heart is so full from this experience! In love with South Africa, so proud of this project & forever grateful for lifelong friendships & memories! Xx."

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That post sparked a wave of responses from South Africans, with one user, @lluwellyn96, commenting: "Not playing our 2nd National Anthem ❤️🔥👏👏👏 proudly 🇿🇦!!!" The comments were a reference to a moment in a video where Bailon-Houghton and friends joked about needing to play "Sister Bethina" — a beloved South African tune that fans consider a second national anthem. In the carousel that followed, she posted a video of herself at dinner with her family, clearly having a blast in the country.

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Mzansi Falls in Love With Adrienne

Beyond the film set, Bailon-Houghton and her family have been embracing everything South Africa has to offer, including attending a rugby match. South Africans have welcomed her warmly, and the love in her comments section reflects that.

@lianev wrote: "Beautiful family ❤️😍"

@mirandamaday added: "lucky to be able to say i love every single one of ya!!! ❤️🩷"

@michellefortune56 asked: "I hope you watched some rugby while you here in Cape town 😊 to experience that GEES/SPIRIT 🇿🇦"

@summer_acacia joked: "❤️🇿🇦✨ Have you heard our back up anthem- Nkalakatha? 🤣"

@deidre_vorsatz91 had full energy in the comments: "Siiiiiissta Betina alright 😂 girl it's our second national anthem you gotta start singing it! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦"

@tiffanyanth could not help noticing: "Girl your accent sound like ours now 🙌😂"

@sylviapila summed up what many fans were feeling: "This trip to 🇿🇦would have been such a good vlog."

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With the cast and crew clearly bonding over life in Mzansi and fans already buzzing with excitement, *Cheetah Girls: Next Gen* is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about Disney projects in recent memory.

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Jessica Gcaba (Entertainment editor) Jessica Gcaba is an Entertainment Editor for Briefly News (joined in 2023). She is a Journalism graduate from the Durban University of Technology (2019). She has 7 years of experience as an Entertainment and Lifestyle Journalist, having worked at Africa New Media Group, writing for ZAlebs website. She passed a set of training from the Google News Initiative. To reach her, contact: jessica.gcaba@briefly.co.za

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