South African actor, producer, and co-founding father of Ferguson Films Shona Ferguson died at forty seven on Friday. His demise has despatched shockwaves across the world, as he remembered as “an innovator and a pioneer.”

Together along with his wife, Connie , the duo speedy have become a pressure to be reckoned with withinside the amusement enterprise. Starting their manufacturing enterprise Ferguson Films in 2010, the strength couple produced award-prevailing TV shows, such as Rockville, The Queen , and The Throne.

In a Facebook submit committed to Shona, Saftas wrote on Friday: “This is a large loss to the TV & Film enterprise and we’re so thankful for his contributions. His effect has been felt and his legacy will stay on.”

The couple, who tied the knot in 2001, met when Shona dropped off mutual pals of Connie’s sister at her home. Connie walked into the room, and it turned into love at first sight – months later, they married.

Speaking to a neighborhood booklet in 2007, Connie admitted she first of all hated Shona’s tattoos, however per week after assembly him, she determined to expose how a whole lot she cherished him with the aid of using having a dragon – a smaller model of the only on his proper arm – inked into the small of her back. “I desired him to recognize I noticed past all his tattoos,” she says. “It’s a image of our love and togetherness.”

Shona, in turn, had Connie’s call written in a rose on his arm. “This way, she can’t whinge that she by no means receives vegetation from me!” he said.

Appearing on infinite mag covers and TV shows, the golden couple regularly said their immediately connection and falling in love at “first sight.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shona and Connie celebrated their nineteenth wedding ceremony anniversary in December. In an Instagram submit committed to his wife, Shona wrote: “…the truth that 19 years later you continue to control to make me giggle is the entirety I’ve prayed for and extra! I love you more every day.”

Shona and Connie now no longer simplest stimulated the united states with their fulfillment in commercial enterprise however additionally with the affection and recognize they confirmed every different thru the years.

In a preceding interview, Connie defined Shona as her “man-in-a million, my quality buddy and my soul mate.”

In a assertion to the press, the Ferguson own circle of relatives have asked privateness and “time to procedure the painful loss.”