Pink Host Sarapa: If I'm Not Good, Firing Me Is Fair

Predrag Sarapa, who hosts the morning show on TV Pink, is the first on-air name at the station to publicly address the dismissals announced by owner Zeljko Mitrovic. He made the remarks to reporters, and they were published on the evening of July 30, 2026.

The question put to him was blunt: has he considered that his own name might end up on the list. He did not pretend the subject was not there.

“I haven’t thought about it. If I’m no good, it’s realistic that I get fired. If I’m not meeting certain demands…”

He left the sentence unfinished and switched to the employer’s side of it, without a word in defence of his own position.

“Every employer wants one thing or another, and at any moment they can say: ‘This isn’t working anymore, bye.’”

Asked how things stand with the station’s owner right now, he kept it short: “We have a good working relationship. So far it has gone well.”

What Mitrovic actually announced

Ahead of this, the Pink owner announced sanctions and dismissals over what he called insubordination among staff. How many people have actually lost their jobs is not clear from that announcement, and Sarapa cited no figures either.

What he did raise, without softening it, were colleagues who complain about their employer. He considers those complaints unjustified. Said out loud in a newsroom where firings have just been announced, that is an awkward thing to put on the record.

Is Sarapa’s job at Pink safe?

Nothing in his answer suggests he holds a guarantee, and he did not ask for one. The point he keeps returning to is conditional: he stays while he meets the demands, and if he stops meeting them, being let go would be a consequence rather than an injustice. He applied that logic to himself, not to anyone else.

That is what makes the remark news. Hosts in this position usually pick silence or a line about team spirit. Sarapa raised the possibility of his own exit before anyone else at the station did.

The health scare happened in late April

This is not the first time this year Sarapa has talked about himself in a difficult context. In late April 2026 he fell ill during the live morning show, had to leave the studio and seek medical help. He was treated for nausea and blood pressure.

He explained the cause himself: he is a chronic patient who had been neglecting his prescribed medication. He promised to take it more regularly.

“I’m fine, all things considered, everything is in order, but I have to appeal to everyone who has a chronic condition like me to take their medication.”

He added: “I think that’s smarter than ending up in a situation like that.” He also said he managed to get out of the studio before it became visible on air, a detail that says something about how much the look of the broadcast matters to him.

Roughly three months separate that morning from this statement. They are two separate stories in time, but both show the same man describing his own standing without decoration.

Two morning shows, two very different positions

The same time slot also carries Jovana Jeremic and her show “Jutro sa dusom”, meaning “Morning With Soul”. We covered her when she announced she had signed five more years with Pink. Sarapa answered that with a joke about his own programme: “We’re without soul, she’s with soul, so we meet somewhere in the middle.”

Behind the joke sits a gap worth noticing. One host talks about a five-year contract, the other talks about a firing being realistic. Same morning block, same station, two completely different accounts of how secure the chair is.

For viewers who start the day with Pink, the practical question is simple: whether September brings a different person behind the desk. Sarapa is the only one so far who has said such an outcome would not surprise him.