Kacavenda: I would ask half a million for Elita 10

Milena Kacavenda spent part of Saturday’s episode of Narod pita on Pink TV counting out loud what she was wearing, item by item, and arrived at roughly 86,000 euros. In the same appearance she put a number on her return to the reality show: half a million.

She walked into the studio dressed in black, carrying two roses. She said they were for the finishing positions of Marko Janjusevic Janjus and Andjelo Rankovic, the two contestants she was most closely tied to last season.

The outfit, priced item by item

Asked about the styling, Kacavenda answered in figures rather than adjectives. She went through it in order, with no rounding:

• cap, 200 euros
• earrings, 5,000 euros
• one ring, 15,000 euros
• second ring, 20,000 euros
• watch, 40,000 euros
• dress, 1,800 euros
• sandals, 1,500 euros
• handbag, 3,000 euros

“The cap is 200 euros, earrings 5,000, one ring 15,000, the other 20,000, the watch 40,000 and it is 25 years old. The dress is 1,800, the sandals 1,500 and the handbag I do not have with me is 3,000,” she said on air.

The two rings alone come to 35,000 euros by her own count. The watch costs more than everything else combined once the rings are set aside, and she made a point of saying it is 25 years old, meaning she has owned it since the late 1990s, before reality television existed in Serbia at all. The handbag, the one item she did not have with her that evening, still went into the tally.

What is her price for coming back?

Half a million euros, with one condition attached that has nothing to do with money.

“I am not asking for any special conditions, but since I am a star I would ask for half a million euros, and I would settle for a bit less if I get to be in the apartment,” she said about the anniversary season.

The apartment here is not real estate. It is a room inside the reality compound, the privileged section of the house that has been handed to selected contestants in earlier seasons. By her account, that perk is the only thing that would move her price down.

Janjus, Andjelo and two roses

She was blunt about both former housemates. On Janjus she said simply that she got it wrong, and when the nude photographs Andjelo Rankovic had sent her came up, she said the moment had not shaken her.

“When Andjelo sent me nude pictures, I did not exactly faint,” she said.

She added that both men will be grateful to her now that everyone is out of the house. The roses she brought in were tied to their placements, and they set the tone for the rest of the hour.

Why the number matters more than the watch

Because of the arithmetic. The entire outfit, at about 86,000 euros, is less than a fifth of what she wants for a new season, and the watch alone accounts for nearly half of everything she listed. Kacavenda has now set an opening price in public, before the production has even opened casting for the tenth season.

This is not the first time fees for the show have been negotiated through television appearances rather than across a table. A contestant says a figure in a studio, the production stays quiet, and everyone waits to see how the audience reacts. What is different here is that she paired the fee with an itemized display of her standard of living, as the argument for why she believes she is worth it.

No answer has come from the other side. Until one does, the only official figure in this story is the one she said herself on Saturday.