“Battle of the Reality Stars”
Shocking rule change
Rocco Stark, Gino Bormann and Andrej Mangold play Big Sister.
© RTLZWEI / Karl Vandenhole
In the 8th episode of “Kampf der Realitystars” the battle of the sexes comes to a head – and in the end the makers shock with a change.
Acute shortage of men in “Battle of Reality Stars”. At the beginning of the eighth episode of the RTL II show, Andrej Mangold (34), Gino Bormann (33) and Cosimo Citiolo (39) are only three men among the ten remaining stars. The newcomers do not change the gender imbalance. As always, a woman and a man come. The creators do not change anything in this mode, although they otherwise like to tweak the rules unannounced. But more on that later.
The woman is Xenia Princess of Saxony (34), who has been playing through various trash formats for years and is greeted by those present like an old friend. The man is Rocco Stark (34), an actor, Ochsenknecht son – and also a reality regular. The newcomers are the last stragglers before the show hits the home straight in the last two episodes.
Big Sisters versus Little Brothers
The production exacerbates the subliminal battle of the sexes. The four lords of creation are sent alone to the game of punishment. In the game with the name “Big Sister”, Andrej, Cosimo, Gino and Rocco have to guess which candidate of the other women is ahead in categories such as “Who has two faces” or “Which woman flirts with her charms”. There are beer cans and chips on the table, which encourages the guys to have a regular table atmosphere. Especially Cosimo doesn’t mince his words (“bastard”, “grenade, * belch).
What the four don’t know: The women watch their men’s round live on a screen. And they apparently do not know (or unconsciously hide it) that it is not the men who choose which woman is the most attractive to them, but which woman they think the other women have chosen. This leads to a number of misunderstandings, which are also fueled by the fact that neither men nor women know what the word “flirting” means, for example.
Back in the sala, Kader Loth (48) awaits the boys with demonstrative knife sharpening (literally). The misunderstanding is cleared up quickly, but the women are rightly angry about some of the men’s insensitive comments. The women accept the men’s apology, but because they did not name all women correctly in the game, they are still punished. They are chained together for ten hours. Would be uncomfortable enough, even if Cosimo didn’t handle a knife or had to go to the bathroom all the time, since he had “emptied a number of beer cans within a very short time during the punishment game.”
Gender battle also in the final
The clash of the sexes continues at the “moment of truth”. In order not to weaken the male quota even further, Rocco negotiates with Xenia that the newcomers do not select a guy. Instead, it hits Aminata Sanogo (26), the “Germany’s Next Top Model” fourth from 2014 has to move out again after just one episode.
But then there is still the shard of the established candidates. There no participant is protected by gender. Except, of course, Andrei. The controversial Bachelor “saved” himself again, as in the last episodes. Otherwise he would have been out weeks ago. Andrej wins the backup game with Loona (46). It is the controversial cocktail-spitting game, which the candidates refused in the previous season under the loud leadership of Jürgen Milski (57, “anti-social filth!”). Two stars have to transport liquids in their mouths to a cocktail glass and then drink them. This time the candidates weren’t that sensitive.
So Andrej and Loona are save. Alessia Herren (19) and Gino collect the most negative votes. In the end, Gino was caught. But the Prince Charming is allowed to stay surprisingly, nobody has to leave. As is so often the case, the makers break the rules in order to remain unpredictable. Now, in the next two episodes, the stars who wanted to select Gino have to expose themselves to his anger.