It is already almost a year ago 25 year old Erik Rotihaug could unleash the jubilation as the new “Farm” winner. At that time, he beat participant Ingebjørg Monique Haram at the finish line, and ran off with both a car and a cabin.
After the victory, he told See and Hear that he was not sure what to do with the prize, but that he should keep the car to get back and forth.
Now, however, Rotihaug can tell that both car and cabin have been sold.
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– It was the best thing for me financially now. I’m not that old, he says to See and Hear, and continues:
– I had planned to set up the cabin, but sold it a couple of weeks ago. If I had kept the car, it would have had to be four-wheel drive, he says jokingly.
The money he has received for the sales he has invested “a little here and there”, he says.
The “Farm” duo created complete confusion
Erik Rotihaug can also tell that the “Farmen” winner has brought with him a number of requests, especially for cooperation, but that the right offer has not yet arrived on the field. On the other hand, he hopes to one day participate in “Skal vi danse”.
Already from the start of the farm stay last year, the 25-year-old was determined to emerge victorious, and in the time before he had put in many practice hours on possible tasks that were to come on the farm.
A loss Rotihaug thought he would take very seriously.
– Will not call me a celebrity
– I was told by the psychologist afterwards, who we all talk to, that she did not know how I would cope with the great fall if I had not won. I went in so hard that I did not think of anything other than that I would win, he said when See and Hear met him at home in 2019.
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– Hard to see himself
Immediately after the victory, he told about how broken he was both physically and mentally.
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Two months after the recording was finished, however, he was in good shape again, even though his body was not quite where it was before the stay started.
– I lost twelve kilos. It’s a lot, and it’s mostly muscle mass. It was hard to see myself in the mirror when I came out, to see how tired I was and how my body has changed. It was very special, he said.
The label “celebrity” Rotihaug, who works as a septic tank on a daily basis, still did not want.
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– I do not want to call myself a celebrity. It’s a kind of role I feel, which gets so wrong. You are on a reality show, and a celebrity is someone who has been in the spotlight for many years, who people know from a lot. Not one who has flashed by, he said firmly.
When we talk to him today, he can tell that everyday life is fairly normal again after the TV participation.
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