Lorielle London, Nico Schwartz, Larissa Marolt and Co.: The gallery shows what the “stars” of the RTL jungle camp are doing today.
Larissa Marolt
The show name “I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!” is of course a flat exaggeration: Because the biggest stars of the RTL reality show are not real celebrities, but casting show mayflies, failed TV existences and other eccentrics who only became famous (again) through the show. We show what Larissa Marolt (picture), Sarah “Dingens” Knappik and Co. are doing today… (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Lorielle London
In the second DSDS season, she performed under the name “Lorenzo” and caused a stir with her androgynous appearance and gestures. She came out three years later and has been living her life as a woman ever since: As a transgender entertainer, Lorielle London moved to the jungle camp in 2009 and surprised everyone there with her authenticity. (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Lorielle London
After the jungle camp, London’s career picked up speed again: she appeared in various TV formats, was seen as a celebrity guest and co-moderator on “Big Brother”. She has disappeared from the TV screen since 2014, and her Facebook presence, on which she still posts regularly, does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about what the entertainer is doing today. (Image: Christian Augustin/Getty Images)
Nico Tail
That name! No matter how much Nico Schwartz could refer to his title “Mr. Model of the World” and his reality TV experience (“Die Alm”), it was only through the jungle camp that his name was on everyone’s lips. And he did well: in 2009, he took third place. (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Nico Tail
Despite the jungle camp, his career as a pop singer never got off the ground, like many ex-participants, Nico Schwartz has continued to work in reality shows (“ProSieben Promiboxen”, “Das Sommerhaus der Stars”). He recently made headlines with his relationship with TV star Julia Prokopy, from whom he separated in the seventh month of pregnancy. (Image: Mathis Wienand/Getty Images for Platform Fashion)
Jay Khan
Actually he had everything: with US5 Jay Khan became a boy band star, he dated top model Lena Gercke to ruin his reputation in the jungle camp: Nobody wanted to believe that he fell in love with Indira Weis. The fact that his fake love in front of the camera was more important to him than collecting stars for his team earned him the reputation of a dander. (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Jay Khan
Six months after the jungle camp, the “relationship” with Indira Weis broke up, and Jay Khan’s (zrechts) solo career was not crowned with success either. Maybe that’s why he recently sought support: together with Marc Terenzi (picture) he founded a new band, Team 5ünf covern boy band hits in German. (Image: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Indira Weis
Almost no one could remember the casting show band: Ex-Bro’Sis singer Indira Weis made no secret of why she moved to the jungle camp in 2011: “In our job, of course, you need media attention. That’s exactly how it was Even back then with ‘Popstars’, you have to be very realistic.” (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Indira Weis
All the attention was useless: neither her acting nor her music career benefited from her participation in “I’m a Star – Get Me Out of Here!”. Indira Weis is said to be working in her parents’ real estate company. (Image: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Constantin Film)
Sarah Knappik
Memme, crybaby and blasphemer: ex-GNTM participant Sarah Knappik managed to take on three important roles in the camp in 2011: she refused the exams, started in tears or messed them up entirely. The fact that she was also badmouthing her competitors was ultimately too much for her fellow campers: Knappik had to leave the camp at their request. (Image: RTL / Stefan Menne)
Sarah Knappik
Hardly any participant was mocked like her, not only by the jungle camp moderators Sonja Zietlow and Dirk Bach, who gave her the nickname Sarah “Dingens”. And yet: In contrast to other jungle camp participants, Knappik has established itself as a fixture on German reality TV, most recently she took part in “Like Me – I’m Famous”. (Image: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Netflix)
Georgina Fleur
She came as an alleged “It Girl” and ex-“Bachelor” participant spurned by Paul Janke and made herself unforgettable through seven jungle tests in a row: Georgina Fleur moved into the jungle in 2013 and received a lot of attention. (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Georgina Fleur
Always good for an excitement or a little scandal: Georgina Fleur is still allowed to appear in reality documentaries again and again. The last highlight: In 2020 she voluntarily left the RTL “Summer House of the Stars” after her partner, the entrepreneur Kubilay Özdemir, spat in the face of another candidate in front of the camera. (Image: Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)
Larissa Marolt
Larissa Marolt (picture, right, with Lena Gercke) came with the recommendation that she was the first winner of the Austrian “Top Model” offshoot and that she also did well with model mom Heidi Klum: that Larissa Marolt after the “jungle camp” professionally reoriented, was certainly also due to her successes there: She had to take eight tests and fought for second place. (Image: Florian Seefried/Getty Images)
Larissa Marolt
After numerous participations in reality formats and guest roles, the Austrian was part of the main cast of the ARD telenovela “Sturm der Liebe” until 2018 and plays in the ZDF series “Blutige Beginner”. In 2021 she was seen for the first time as a juror on “Switzerland’s Next Topmodel”. (Image: Monika Fellner/Getty Images)
Helena Fürst
Nobody would have dared to dream that Helena Fürst would develop into a hate figure in the jungle camp: once she started on television as a “passionate fighter” and “lawyer for the poor”, she changed from “Heulena” to “Höllena”. and brought roommates like Thorsten Legat, but also the spectators against him. (Image: RTL / Stefan Gregorowius)
Helena Fürst
Since the end of the jungle, Fürst has lived according to the motto “Once the reputation is ruined…”: She released a cover version of the Ballermann hit “It’s cool to be an asshole” and became a reality TV star – such as “Like Me – I’m Famous” (picture) or most recently “The Big Celebrity Penance”. (Image: TVNOW)
Alexander “Honey” Keen
One of the most unusual reality TV careers: Alexander “Honey” Keen drew so much attention to himself on “GNTM” as Kim Hnizdo’s boyfriend at the time that he was allowed to move into the jungle camp the following year. There he formed tender bonds with Gina-Lisa Lohfink and became a bogeyman when he did not want to take part in the jungle test for “health reasons”. (Image: RTL / Stefan Menne)
Alexander “Honey” Keen
For a short time, Keen benefited from the fame of the jungle camp: first he worked as a moderator for Sonnenklar.TV and appeared on “Das Perfect Celebrity Dinner” and “Ninja Warrior Germany”. In 2019 he revealed in the “Bild” that he now works as a girl for everything in a Frankfurt gym. (Image: Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)
Gisele Oppermann
Gisele Oppermann already showed on “Germany’s Next Top Model” that she built close to the water. When she moved into the RTL jungle camp in 2019, the humidity in the Australian jungle increased considerably. She was considered a “crybaby” and set a new record when she had to take the jungle test nine times in a row. (Image: MG RTL D / Arya Shirazi)
Gisele Oppermann
She also “made it” as a reality TV star: Gisele Oppermann showed in 2020 at “SAT.1 Promiboxen” that she can not only cry, but also hand it out and put away, where she won against her opponent Doreen Dietel. Most recently, the German-Brazilian took part in the sixth season of the dating show “Adam sucht Eva” (picture) and in the big “Celebrity Penance” on ProSieben. (Image: RTLZWEI)
