Martin Semmelrogge moves into the jungle camp
Retro is very popular on German television right now. And therefore you cannot avoid the thought that in the new season of “I’m a Star – Get Me Out of Here!” some nostalgic gold may be slumbering, which RTL intends to bring back to light with the start of the broadcast on Friday (21:30). In fact, (almost) everything is as before. And that can be an encouraging thought after the last few years of Corona.
First things first: The Jungle Camp has come full circle: it’s being made again in Australia. At the beginning of 2021 there was no regular season due to Corona, but a latently overshadowed replacement variant from Hürth near Cologne, which is by no means a jungle. The format returned in 2022, but camped in South Africa, not Australia as usual. It was beautiful, but it also felt different. A bit as if someone had moved all the furniture in their living room by a meter.
Plus: Even a quick perusal of the new celebrity staff sometimes brings up memories of bygone entertainment times. Some reality formats are now focusing on repurposing candidates with particular behavior problems from other reality formats. These then bring much uproar, but little history. There is no shortage of jungle stories – on paper – for the moment.
One of the campers, the singer Markus Mörl (63), is something like “Mister 1982/1983”. At that time, Hesse was able to achieve a somewhat childish success in a short time (“I want to have fun”) and form a kind of cinematic dream couple for Neue Deutsche Welle with his colleague Nena (film title: “Give gas, I want to have fun!”). . What happened after? Maybe it will glow around the fire. Lucas Cordalis (55) is the son of Costa Cordalis, who wrote television history in 2004 as the first king of the RTL jungle.
Martin Semmelrogge (67), who starred in the 1981 film hit “Das Boot”, has always been good for one or the other title, even outside of acting. It’s no different even before the jungle started, as for days there was a certain amount of speculation about where Semmelrogge was and whether he was actually going to move into his cot. RTL.de announced a few days ago that the majority of campers are on their way or already on site – only Semmelrogge not yet. “The subsequent arrival of Martin Semmelrogge has production-related reasons,” he said.
There are also two names associated with times when the German national football team was not eliminated in the preliminary rounds. Verena Kerth (41) is a radio host and has become known to a wider audience through her relationship with the “goalkeeper titan” Oliver Kahn. Before the jungle camp, she told RTL that she had never been camping. promising.
Claudia Effenberg (57), fashion designer, is the wife of former FC Bayern captain Stefan Effenberg (54). She believes she is “really good at conflict resolution” – “after my kids call me Mother Teresa and my husband says I’m one of the funniest and nicest people”. In addition, the former kicker seems to have set her a kind of benchmark in terms of difficulty on the show, from which she can escape in an emergency with the exclamation “I’m a star-get me out of here!” she can redeem. “When Stefan heard I was going to the jungle, he said, ‘You know I won the Champions League, you definitely won’t say that line,'” says Claudia Effenberg.
As usual, it’s completely in the stars whether interesting names end up being interesting camp residents. As a kind of safety net, there are even some people you know very well about what they offer. These are often the tried and tested candidates from other shows. For example Cosimo Citiolo (41), who mainly participated in 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 the time he didn’t know he was lactose intolerant. He now eats differently and the problem is solved. uff!
However, co-moderator Jan Köppen is new. He replaces Daniel Hartwich and will from now on lead the program with Sonja Zietlow, in which a successor to the reigning jungle king Filip Pavlovic is being sought. “It’s not my way and it’s not my aspiration to finish off someone from the top,” he told the German news agency of his planned handling of the rice and bean-hungry celebrities in the camp. “I take every single person who comes in as a person seriously.” The final is scheduled for January 29.
