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It was a weekend of surprising insights. “We are test subjects for the audience here – and we don’t even realize it,” claims Ariel. But she notices a lot. And talks endlessly. Airtime hassle? Ariel supposedly believes that the Earth is flat, and everyone else believes that Ariel can’t be as stupid as she acts. She’s just playing! Reality instead of reality? Hard to judge with this woman.
Ariel snaps at Farmer Patrick for allegedly flirting with Eva and reprimands Hardy: “You’re the oldest guy in the world Camp!” – as if that alone was an impudence on his part. Gil is also attacked out of nowhere again, she constantly repeats: “You are a sick liar!” Gil remains determined not to allow himself to be provoked: “We understand it now, it’s good.” Hardy wonders, “Who is this woman?”
The Eva Patrick affair (which isn’t a affair) concerns everyone
The Eva Patrick affair is heating up. Stephen warns Eva that she is already coming across as “flirty,” while Patrick repeatedly emphasizes how much he loves his girlfriend. Mirja fears the worst: “If Stephen Dürr sees that…” Now it’s going to be fun! Eva defends herself by pointing out that she wasn’t so stupid as to make the same mistake twice. “There is a lack of intelligence throughout the camp,” notes Samira. So much for that. (Of course the discussion continues for what feels like hours.)
The jungle trials are now the least interesting thing about the show. We learn that Simone Ballack is a puzzle queen, while Mirja du Mont can’t put five pieces together. Umut looks so miserable in the rain of cockroaches that that’s probably why he has to leave the camp – or because he barely made an impression. It’s his bad luck that it’s not until the next day that we see him portraying himself as a big misunderstood person (in front of the critical Eva of all people) – in “Temptation Island VIP” he wasn’t a fraud at all, just a poor geriatric nurse who urgently needed money and therefore acted as if he was still with his wife, while he then fell in love with someone else. Or so. If you don’t know these formats, you’ll be a little lost in the complicated description. Or “lost,” as Stephen would say. “True!” After he leaves, Umut is grateful (“I kiss your heart!”), and the first cigarette falls out of his hand out of sheer joy. Why does everyone always act as if they had to starve for months? We’re talking about a week!
Gil delivers – and is now being integrated
The center of the musty party remains Gil Ofarim. “He’s still here,” says Stephen, “that doesn’t make any sense.” Hardy also finds this “amazing”. Everyone wonders why he doesn’t just apologize. And then some people nominate him and himself for the next jungle test because he delivers. Gil knows why he’s the right guy: “Do I have fears? Definitely. Am I going to make a big deal out of it? No.” That’s why Hardy and Simone accompany him, that’s why Samira cheers him on. Gil keeps his nerve in the water tank with animals. Even the lizards sitting on his head are amazed at his stoic calm. The fact that he creates eight stars is a pure act of will. Out of sheer arrogance he says in the video booth “Shalömchen!” And even makes a joke: “There were fish whose names I forgot. Like before on tour when I…” He stops and grins, a rare sight. Those were the rock star days!
Meanwhile, Ariel talks about her cemetery angel – a man who took her out of a locked cemetery in the evening where she had forgotten the opening times when visiting her dad. A great story, but Simone topped it with a medium who sent her into the forest to contact her deceased son. And what would the jungle be if not a large forest?
Mirja has to go, “everything is fine”
During yoga everyone gets closer, Gil is integrated, the fags come back – a good day. Until Sonja and Jan show up. It is decided between Stephen and Mirja. And she has to go! “Everything is fine” is her reaction.
