With these stories, the candidates for the jungle camp became famous…

There are, of course, countless reasons not to check out the jungle camp. But there are also reasons that speak for it (the bomb quotas come from somewhere every year). For example, there would be the revaluation of one’s own ego as the devaluation of another. Boredom. longing for the jungle. Because you want to conduct research into human conflict behavior and social interaction under stressful conditions. Or simply because of a masochistic penchant for foreign shame.

For anyone tuning into RTL tonight from January 13th 2023 for any of the above reasons, here’s a little help – in case you’re ever wondering why the hell these people are famous enough to be over four million to lure viewers onto the TV.

Does Cecilia Asoro look familiar? Then it could be because of her appearance in “Germany’s Next Top Model” in 2015. No? Then maybe because you saw her on “Germany’s Next Top Model” in 2016.

Neither? Then you may have met her in 2018 at the “Take Me Out” dome show. Impossible? Okay, then you saw Cecilia Asoro flirting with German “bachelor” Andrej Mangold in his season. no? In that case, she must have caught your eye when she won the show The Beauty and the Nerd. Neither? Her battle for 100,000 euros in “Prominent Separated” remains.

No? Okay: You must have read “Playboy,” where Cecilia Asoro recently stripped naked.

Compared to other C celebrities, Effenberg is a real celebrity heavyweight who was able to land “IBES” (“I’m a star, get me out of here”). Rumor has it that RTL has also taken a beating with one of the highest fees in the show’s history.

While she may be better known as the “wife of…”, Claudia Effenberg initially had a remarkable career. She was discovered as a model at the age of 19, followed by photo shoots for “Elle” and “Vogue” magazines. She also completed her training as a dental assistant.

And then the men came. In the late 90s, Effenberg fell in love with Bayern player Thomas Strunz, with whom she fathered two children, Lucia and Thomas, the second. After five years of marriage, she began a relationship, ironically enough, with one of her husband’s teammates, Stefan Effenberg. By that time he was also with his wife and children.

Because they loved each other so much, both got divorced and involved, separated shortly before the wedding, but got married in 2004, had a long distance relationship – he in Florida, she in Germany – broke up again in 2006 (because Stefan Effenberg had an affair with his neighbor), but then found each other again and are still happy together to this day.

Claudia Effenberg has also tried trash TV, since 2007 she has appeared on several programs, including “Celebrity Big Brother” and “Beat the Star”. Oh yes, she also wrote a book: “Actually I’m Pretty Nice”. We will find out in the jungle camp.

Do we even need to introduce the creator of the hit “Ketchup Mayo Sandwich”?

If you’re one of the few who don’t know him yet: The Checker vom Neckar, as Cosimo calls himself, became known through several appearances on the DSDS talent show. However, he certainly did not attract attention with his singing talent. If he had, he probably would have won and we wouldn’t be hearing from him today.

No, Cosimo made the most of his short TV time and attracted attention, among other things, by appearing in Spiderman clothing or by an interview in which he sharply criticized the DSDS jury. The justification of this criticism is, of course, a matter of opinion. But the fact is that this popularity was enough for him to achieve cult status. As a result, he eventually made it to top programs such as “Big Brother”, “Köln 50667” or “Das Sommerhaus der Stars”.

Anyone who thinks that no one takes Cosimo seriously is wrong. The rappers Kay-One and Bushido came out relatively seriously as big fans of Cosimo. The latter even helped him write the lyrics of his songs. But that only half helped, the Checker is still not really taken seriously as a musician by the general public – probably not even by Bushido himself. Since he probably doesn’t realize it himself, everything is actually fine and Cosimo continues to tinker diligently from TV-Show to TV-Show.

If anyone feels comfortable in the jungle, it’s Jana Pallaske. The actress has spent several months a year on a Thai island since the 1990s – without electricity and running water, they say. There she gives life coaching courses and her services as a shaman. Recently, Pallaske also called himself «Urkraft».

Her career is less “eso”: Jana Pallaske is actually an actress, she became famous in 2000 with the movie “alaska.de”, after which she had roles in the cinema hits “Men’s Hearts” or “Fack ju Göhte”. Pallaske even made a cameo appearance in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds.

Jolina Mennen has been living as a legal woman since 2017, after three gender reassignment operations. Mennen allows her followers to participate in this process, she wants to provide information on the subject. Her job: beauty influencer. According to “Bunte”, it is “one of the largest” in these areas. But because the world of social media is not enough for Mennen, she also appeared on linear television with “TV total Wok-WM” and the “RTL tower jumping”.

According to Mennen, he has an “irrational fear of frogs”. That’s why she had tears before “IBES” started: In the hotel room, she shows herself crying in a video because the phobia thing was “leaked” by the broadcaster. Now she is afraid that RTL will abuse it. Since we know the channel, chances are good. But luckily for her, there is Dr. Bob.

If most “IBES” participants are at most C celebrities, one could probably even speak of an A celebrity in the case of Lucas Cordalis. The one-eyed among the blind, so to speak. Lucas has been used to being in the limelight since childhood, being the son of Costa Cordalis (pop singer, “Aaaaanita”), he took the stage early on. In addition to being a singer, he later worked as a composer and producer. In 2022, the 55-year-old released an album with the exciting name “Lucas Cordalis”.

Cordalis is married to TV star Daniela Katzenberger, even has a daughter with her and his own reality show. Before that he had a relationship with singer Blümchen. But that was a long time ago.

In the jungle, the singer will follow in great footsteps: his mother-in-law Iris Klein and sister-in-law Jenny Frankhauser have mastered their participation in “IBES” in recent years. And father Costa even managed to win the first season.

Birofio is a qualified industrial electrician and owner of his own fashion label (“GIGI”). But actually he is the male equivalent of Cecilia Asoro because his real job is reality TV actor.

He was seen in “Temptation Island VIP”, “Ex On The Beach”, “Battle of the Reality Stars” and “Prominent Separated”. Because we don’t have these shows Everybody unfortunately we can’t say more about Gigi. Except maybe: because he is a very heavy smoker, he will have a hard time at «IBES».

Nobody knows Markus Mörl from the Watson editors, not even culture star Simone Meier. Wikipedia tells us that Mr. Mörl is a “German pop singer who became known in the early 1980s as Markus in the Neue Deutsche Welle”. He also sometimes appeared under the “stage name” Markus M.

With his hit “I want fun”, Mörl even took first place in the German sales charts. A year later, he starred in the movie “Give Gas – I want fun” together with Nena.

Djamila Rowe, on the other hand, is known to some of the editors. Namely as an “embassy slut”. The reason: she had an affair with Swiss ambassador Thomas Borer in 2002 – or not. It is still not certain, Rowe initially claimed, later retracted her statement. In any case, it caused quite a stir at the time and eventually led to Borer’s return to Switzerland, his marriage to Shawne Fielding and Rowe’s fame.

Rowe’s backpack is also bulging, with experiences on (reality) TV: she has already been a guest on “Big Brother”, “TV Total”, “Die Alm”, “Celebrities Private – The Sweet Life of Stars” and “Adam is on search for Eve – stranded in paradise”. Djamila Rowe acts as replacement candidate for Martin Semmelrogge, who

He knows all the catwalks of New York, Milan and Paris. Papis Loveday is a top model – one of the most successful in the male modeling world. Born in Senegal, he now lives in Munich, Milan and Ibiza. For unknown reasons, despite his success, he was also dragged into the abyss of trash TV, where he was seen in “Celebrity Big Brother” 2021, for example.

Because he has a snake phobia, he says he takes a stuffed snake into the jungle. This is how Loveday hopes to overcome his phobia.

Tessa Bergmeier doesn’t have it easy. Every trash TV fan knows what role she will play in “IBES”: that of the jungle goat. She and her attitude became known for her participation in the fourth season “Germany’s Next Top Model”, where she sometimes had to participate with a broken arm. The modeling career that followed was so semi.

Nevertheless, the vegan from Baden-Württemberg likes to make a name for herself in the tabloids: Either because she can be seen in a new television show – there would be “Battle of the Reality Stars” or “Sat.1 Celebrity Boxing – among others – or because she has a fight with someone. Currently, for example, with fellow candidate Cosimo, with whom she started a dispute before the jungle camp started. This was probably due to an incident on the set of the show – and the program was called – “King of the Children’s Heads”, in which Citiolo ran over her and broke her foot So One’s grief is another’s pleasure: with Tessa you can look forward to plenty of drama in the bush.

Kerth is a TV and radio presenter and model. But she also really became known for an affair with Oliver Kahn. He even left his heavily pregnant wife Simone for Kerth. The relationship lasted five years.

Then she took on Veronica Ferres’ ex-husband, Martin Krug. And since 2022, Verena Kerth has been with Marc Terenzi, ex-husband of singer Sarah Connor. It’s just complicated, the celebrity jungle.

(lacquer, courtesy of sim and smi)