A TV show featuring the murdered girlfriend (pic) of Oscar Pistorius will still be broadcast. Source: AAP
BLONDE cover girl Reeva Steenkamp will appear in a pre-recorded celebrity reality TV show in South Africa, two days after she was shot dead by Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius.
The 29-year-old will make a posthumous prime-time debut in Tropika Island of Treasure.
Pistorius, 26, will be spending a third night in jail during the screening on Saturday.
The reality show, shot on location in Jamaica, features Steenkamp, a law graduate, and several other local personalities competing for one million rand ($A110,000) prize money.
Producers decided not to shelve the show, instead casting its broadcast as a tribute to Steenkamp.
Forensics teams are working at Pistorius's home to try and establish what took place before and after Steenkamp was shot in the head and hand.
"She was happy, healthy, beautiful and vibrant and that's the way she should be remembered," said executive producer Samantha Moon.
In an earlier statement Moon said the decision to broadcast the program was taken after "much deliberation".
"This week's episode will be dedicated to Reeva's memory.
"Yesterday her mother agreed that we should go ahead and we are free to go ahead and we are working on how to pay tribute to her," said Kaizer Kganyagon, a spokesman for the national broadcaster.
The audience is expected to be much larger than normal.
"The number that we expect will be obviously more than the normal because now everybody wants to see this person that was killed."
A special tribute will be broadcast ahead of Saturday's show at 6.30pm (0330 AEDT).
Trailers for the series show a beaming and vivacious Steenkamp clad in a bikini and other skimpy clothing.
The show's website carries a picture of a burning candle with a message: "We are deeply saddened and extend our condolences to Reeva's family and friends."
The series is now in its fifth season.
Born in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, Steenkamp moved to Johannesburg six years ago to pursue her modelling career. She had dated Pistorius for less than year.
After an emotional court appearance on Friday, in which Pistorius broke down repeatedly, a source at Brooklyn police station in Pretoria said the track star had "slept very well".
He was expected to receive visits on Saturday from family and from members of his defence team, who are preparing for a bail hearing that will begin on Tuesday.
The state is expected to strongly oppose any effort to allow him to return to his home.
Prosecutors will argue the murder was premeditated, meaning he could face a life sentence.
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