Maja and Asmin Leave Elita 9 House: We Embarrassed Ourselves

Maja Marinkovic was eliminated from Elita 9 just short of the very top. On Sunday, July 20, she and Asmin Djurdzic left the reality house, and by their own account, they did so with their heads bowed. The most controversial couple of the season bowed out before the final three, with Maja closing the season in 10th place.

“We embarrassed ourselves and we won’t leave proudly,” Maja admitted in the garden, summing up ten months spent in front of the cameras. Asmin added that it felt strange to think he would no longer be there from the next day. “I got used to all these rooms,” he said.

Instead of the triumphant exit many expected from a couple that held viewers’ attention for months, what followed was an admission of fault. Both took responsibility for their conduct during the season and, to many people’s surprise, asked producers to keep them on through the summer. They offered to do the smallest chores, from weeding the garden to feeding the chickens, just to remain in the show.

Why did they leave in shame?

Maja spoke openly about how reality show circumstances have nothing to do with real life. “We were in an enclosed space, with exes everywhere. We won’t live like that outside,” she said. Asmin admitted he is more jealous than she is and that he would not know how to react in similar situations.

It was precisely that dynamic, the fights, the reconciliations and the scenes that piled up for months, that defined their stay in the house. Now that it is all over, both seem aware of just how much they exposed to the public. Hence the phrase they kept repeating: we embarrassed ourselves.

Taki arrives furious, Maja asks forgiveness

The emotional peak of the evening came when Maja faced Asmin’s parents. In front of his mother Mevlida and his father Mustafa, she asked forgiveness for everything that had happened. Mevlida reportedly judged that Maja was genuinely remorseful, which some read as a possible start of a reconciliation between the families.

Her father, Radomir Marinkovic Taki, reacted very differently. He arrived at the studio visibly angry and, instead of an embrace, turned away from his daughter. The relationship between father and daughter, stormy for years already, cracked once again on camera, this time at the very end of a season that brought Maja both a 10th-place finish and a pile of headlines.

While Elita 9 crowned its winner in the grand finale, the story of Maja and Asmin remained open. Whether producers will grant their request to stay through the summer, and whether this is truly the end of their reality saga, is not yet known.

So what do you think, do Maja and Asmin deserve another shot in front of the cameras, or is it time for the scene to move on?