TV tip: The jungle camp: Aussie home, luck alone

TV tip
The jungle camp: Aussie home, luck alone

Retro is very popular on German television right now. And so you can’t avoid the thought that in the new season of “I’m a Star – Get Me Out of Here!” a bit of nostalgic gold could be slumbering, which RTL intends to bring to light with the start of the broadcast on Friday (9:30 p.m.). In fact, (almost) everything is the same as it used to be. And that can be a warming thought after the past Corona years.

First of all: The jungle camp is back where it started – it is being produced again in Australia. At the beginning of 2021 there was no regular season because of Corona, but a latently dimmed replacement variant from Hürth near Cologne, which is not at all jungle. The format came back in 2022 – but camped in South Africa, not Down Under as usual. It was nice, but it also felt different. A bit as if someone had moved all the furniture in their own living room by a meter.

In addition: Even a quick perusal of the new celebrity staff sometimes brings back memories of bygone entertainment times. Some reality formats are now focusing on reusing candidates with particularly behavioral problems from other reality formats. These then bring a lot of ruckus, but little history. There is no shortage of stories in the jungle – on paper – for the time being.

One of the campers, the singer Markus Mörl (63), is something like “Mister 1982/1983”. At that time, the Hessian managed within a short time to land a somewhat infantile hit (“I want fun”) and to form a kind of cinema dream couple for Neue Deutsche Welle with his colleague Nena (film title: “Give gas, I want fun!” ). What happened after that? Will he possibly enlighten around the campfire. Lucas Cordalis (55) is the son of Costa Cordalis, who wrote television history in 2004 as the first RTL jungle king.

Martin Semmelrogge (67), who played in the 1981 cinema hit “Das Boot”, has always been good for one or the other headline, even outside of acting. It was no different even before the jungle start, as there was a certain amount of guesswork for days as to whether he would really move into his camp bed. RTL.de announced the day before the start that there would be an update on the first show. He no longer appeared in the official list of the twelve candidates on Thursday, instead the make-up artist Djamila Rowe was announced as a candidate.

player wives

There are also two names that are associated with times when the German national soccer team was not eliminated in the preliminary rounds. Verena Kerth (41) is a radio presenter and has become known to a wider public through her liaison with the “goalkeeper titan” Oliver Kahn. Before the jungle camp, she reported to RTL that she had never been camping. promising.

Claudia Effenberg (57), in turn, designer, is the wife of former FC Bayern captain Stefan Effenberg (54). She believes she is “really good at resolving conflicts” – “after my kids call me Mother Teresa and my husband says I’m one of the funniest and most agreeable people”. In addition, the ex-kicker seems to have set her a kind of benchmark in terms of the hardships on the show, from which one can escape in an emergency with the exclamation “I’m a star – get me out of here!” can redeem. “When Stefan heard that I was going into the jungle, he said, ‘You know that I won the Champions League, you will definitely not say that one sentence’,” says Claudia Effenberg.

The “Checker vom Neckar” about his lactose intolerance

As usual, it is completely in the stars whether interesting names will end up being interesting camp residents. As a kind of safety net, there are also a few people who you know very well about what they deliver. These are often the tried and tested candidates from other shows. For example Cosimo Citiolo (41), who mainly went through the casting show “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” and was nicknamed “Checker vom Neckar”. He told RTL about his camping experience: “I went camping once, but unfortunately I farted so much. After that, nobody wanted to camp with me.” At that time he didn’t know that he was lactose intolerant. Now he eats differently and the problem is solved. phew!

Co-moderator Jan Köppen is also new. He replaces Daniel Hartwich and will from now on lead the program with Sonja Zietlow, in which a successor to the reigning king of the jungle Filip Pavlovic is being sought. “It’s not my way and it’s not my aspiration to finish someone off from above,” he told the German Press Agency about his planned handling of the starving rice and bean celebrities in the camp. “I take every single person who goes in seriously as a person.” The final is scheduled for January 29th.

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