The RTL jungle show is finally returning to Australia, and it’s being shot again at the original locations. Between bipolar and deeply relaxed, there is a lot going on and there is also throwing up, in short: a dream start in Murwillumbah.
By Ingo Scheel
Where should one begin with such a flood of impressions? With Cosimo Citiolo, who leans out of the window so picturesquely and polyglot that you want to have it tattooed on your décolleté: “Australia is like Cologne in big”. With Tessa Bergmeier “most people hate” which may need to be revised up with this 16th edition of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”? Or with Claudia Effenberg, who has to fight her way up this small dune on the introductory beach with her “shitty boots” as if it were the first jungle test?
After three years of outsourcing, the jungle show has returned to its original power – I almost wrote, but about that a little later – to its place of origin, that’s how it should be called, returned, so that old feelings and memories are revived. Exactly the right setting to present Jan Köppen, Daniel Hartwich’s successor. The new and the old, a smooth combination, and of course, as already indicated above, a firework of impressions, since the first testicle is not even eaten.
Besides licking, Gigi can do something else
Let’s stay with the testicles, because Gigi Birofio has already dedicated himself to them in advance. The man who “eats pasta” and uses spray tan “can do other things besides lick” and has tasted his own semen in anticipation of testicular feasting. Result: “I’m prepared”. Everything is crazy now, you want to have your larynx tattooed directly.
Because otherwise there is already a lot going on. One may possibly miss the classic senior type, the snoring grandfather, the aged genius, but even this side of the best-ager age group, wisdom is presented with a big scoop. There are Tessa’s vegan monologues, in which even as a spectator you soon consider grilling an opossum in protest. There is Jolina Mennen with the most beautiful self-assessment for decades – “some influencer from the Internet” – and the most beautiful range of such offers, namely “tears, vomit and diarrhea”.
Jungle camp 2023, day 1
Tessa against the rest of the world – there’s a stink on the first evening
We see Lucas Cordalis, who finally, finally, finally has lined up to emulate his father and wants to be crowned king, top model Papis Loveday, who floats in in a Senegalese tribal outfit and Cecilia Asoro, who has wet wipes with him. Djamila Rowe, whose face is almost blown apart during a parachute jump, and Verena Kerth, who met lover Marc Terenzi in P1 – where else? – and who is only allowed to face her jungle king again as a jungle queen.
And there’s Jana Pallaske, sorry, Jana URKRAFT, in all capital letters, please. She wears Uschi Obermaier’s headband, asks permission before picking flowers and has a tendency to meditative yoga chants, which brings Effes Claudia to the brink of a nervous breakdown: “I can’t do it anymore”.
Markus and his Maserati are there too
Did we forget someone? Oh sure, Markus is still there. The man with the Maserati, who drives the 210, spontaneously intones NDW refrain lines, hints that something was going on with Nena (that will surely be deepened again in the next few days), and tried his hand at English in the introductory film so vaguely Language, one would like to hear a lot more about that too.
Competently compiled in this way, things got really busy right away. Gigi had hidden half a fruit shop in her underpants with holes, Tessa chattered so much on the plane that you would have liked to be the first to throw her out and Djamila Rowe immediately stretched out his arms when he saw the hiking map: “I can’t even find my way around Ikea.”
Jungle camp 2023
Did you know everyone? These are the stars for Australia
Finally, in the camp, after two jungle tests with a parachute jump and a tightrope act, the waves immediately swept up, and there were several direct bangs. First there was an argument about beds, then about who is handicapped and what that actually means, in between Markus, the former flashlight man, gave an unexcited team captain, before at the end there was another check, namely at the worst. The whole jungle dozen had to work, short greeting by Dr. Bob, then there was Egg in a Poke and Hellumi, Crocodile Eyes and Tongue. Some chewed, others threw up, five stars, the reasonable reward. Gigi had predicted it correctly: “I’m losing when I’m puking””
What a premiere day in the jungle camp
A premiere day that was tough and left a few questions unanswered: Was Tessa’s foot broken then or not? Who snores the loudest? And when is Martin Semmelrogge coming? Until then, we’ll stick with Jana URKRAFT Pallaske and say “Ommmmmmmm!”, shout “Mamma Mia” with Cosimo and look forward to – Move! Move! Move! – on day two of the spectacle.