Tears in victory
Lucy Diakovska is the jungle queen
February 5, 2024, 1:01 a.m
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Her urge to move, her unpretentious nature and her care give No Angels singer Lucy the jungle crown. The viewers of the jungle camp clearly give her preference over the reality actress Leyla and the influencer Twenty4Tim.
Not an angel, but now a queen: singer Lucy Diakovska from the pop band No Angels (“Daylight In Your Eyes”) has won the RTL jungle camp. The 47-year-old received the most audience votes that night in the finale of the show “I’m a star – get me out of here!”, as the station announced. Her last two competitors – the reality candidate Leyla Lahouar (27) and the influencer Twenty4Tim (23) – were left behind.
Diakovska, who everyone actually only calls by her first name Lucy, can now call herself the jungle queen. She also won prize money of 100,000 euros. Lucy is part of Germany’s most famous casting girl group No Angels (German: “Keine Engel”), which triggered a whole casting boom on German television in 2001. She has known show business for a long time. In the jungle camp, Lucy was particularly noticeable for her urge to move, her caring nature and her relatively unpretentious nature. When she faced an exam, her ambition blossomed. This was also the case in the final: she bravely won four out of five stars. Among other things, she had to eat pig’s uterus.
As the new jungle ruler, the 47-year-old follows in the footsteps of jungle majesties such as Costa Cordalis, Brigitte Nielsen and Ingrid van Bergen. Her immediate predecessor was the make-up artist and reality TV candidate Djamila Rowe. Lucy had already predicted before the start of the show that a possible final appearance could be a highly emotional affair for her. “This time the final is on the anniversary of my mother’s death. Maybe the universe had something in mind,” said the Bulgarian-born singer. That’s how it happened. When victory was certain, she cried.