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Jungle camp, day 8
Tactic or trend reversal? Krawallo-Kim suddenly goes on a reconciliation tour
On day 8 in the jungle camp, Kim Virginia offers her ex-lover Mike Heiter to bury the hatchet
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While Kim’s whipping boy Mike Heiter sheds bitter tears on the jungle phone, riot brush Kim Virginia is suddenly noticeably tame: first she reconciles with Leyla, then she suddenly offers her Mike to bury the hatchet. Are you serious?!
Half is done! However, on the eighth day in the jungle, the jungle campers are already showing serious signs of fatigue. Who can blame them? It’s the same story day in and day out: Mike has a “small penis.” Mike has “hair loss.” Mike “still lives with his mother” and then he also has depression. As if all the discussions about the despising of mental illnesses had never happened, the dating format hopper fires Kim Virginia Hartung continues to hurl insults against her ex-affair 24/7 and relies on humiliation by spreading private secrets. Tenor: Anyone who travels like this is a loser and unfit for life. Hard stuff.
Jungle camp: KIm Virginia agitates against Mike Heiter
A seasoned knight, aka a designer, has to come along to put a stop to all the misery or, better yet, a whole suspension bridge, one thing is certain. And what’s the best way to do that? Of course with bans! “The topic of MAIK (here spelled the fair knight’s wife!) is over. This bum topic is strictly forbidden now!” the core announces to the assembled team. This will definitely work perfectly. Unless Kim brings out the manslaughter argument of all the oppressed in the Federal Republic of Germany and shouts: “You can’t say anything here anymore!”
Keyword drooling: Kim talks to Leyla on the eighth day. Yes, exactly with the woman who wanted to have her shaman curse her the day before because she “jumped on my ex’s cock – in front of my eyes!”. What Leyla did: She splashed around a bit with Mike at the pond. “It’s all escalated a bit,” Leyla agrees to a short truce. However, she doesn’t have friendly feelings for Kim. She later makes this clear to her: “I don’t think you have any honest intentions when it comes to me. I want to distance myself these days. Maybe you need that too? So that you can get on a different track,” she says.
But no matter which funnel Kim looks into, she only sees Not-so-Magic-Mike everywhere. She even takes her “manipulative” ex-lover with her to the jungle test. Only to insult him again at the “Grand Prix of Murwillumbah”. He and Twenty4Tim, as non-hearing and non-speaking guides, navigate the vehicle through the obstacle course with amazing confidence. In the end, the trio can’t keep any of the seven stars they earned because they didn’t cross the finish line in time. “Considering I don’t have a driver’s license, that was okay?” driver Kim begs for absolution. Tim is not impressed, as you might still say on TikTok? “As expected,” he says.
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He has more important things on his mind anyway: “Guys, I just got shit on!” Tim says indignantly after the jungle test. “Guys, I have a turd on my shoulder,” he exaggerates just a little. Mike has at least found his smile again through the mishap and explains to the youngster that things like that bring good luck. Tim, not stupid at all, turns to Kim and says, “Maybe you need to get shit on…if that brings luck?”
Kim Virgina talks about bullying
But it’s not that simple. Lucy Diakovska asks why she is “always so keen on rioting” and she has to be praised for her genuine interest. In this episode we learn in passing from the No Angels singer that she now runs a hotel with 38 employees, who all respectfully address her as “Mrs. Diakovska”. It’s also very tidy there, but only in passing. Lucy believes that behind Kim’s titanium-hard shell there is a core that is at least as soft as the one in these chocolate cakes.
Kim says she has had so many bad experiences with rejection and bullying in her life that she no longer dares to show herself vulnerable. “I don’t think people would be particularly interested in that,” she says. Mike is no exception. He “shit on her heart” after she opened up. “Always this heart shit” you want to shout at Kim with Funny van Dannen. But then, out of the blue, Kim offers Mike to “bury the hatchet,” which Mike, the harmony-needy tattoo edge that he is, immediately accepts. Leyla, on the other hand, suspects it’s pure tactics, after all you can vote out from Saturday. “She’s really smart, that woman,” whispers Leyla.
Mike, on the other hand, is just sad sometimes. “I got naked here. All of Germany now knows what happened,” he says, explaining that he had his “toughest year” in 2023. With depression. Without money. Back in the children’s room. “There have been years when I was prouder,” he says, “when I think about the day my daughter was born… I just hope that everything will be okay again” – an uplifting thought. Abrupt change of topic: Who will have to leave the jungle camp first tomorrow? A tip: it won’t be Fabio.