Matora Arrives Alone at Pink: 'She's Watching Me Tonight'

Jovana Tomic Matora arrived on Saturday night for the taping of the talk show Narod Pita on Pink television without her partner, Dragana Stojancevic. Outside the studio she said Dragana had stayed home and would be watching her live. The show aired at 10 p.m. and was hosted by Darko Tanasijevic.

A Pink driver brought her to the studio, she said.

“The woman wants to shut the kiosk early so she can watch me! She says I’m the only one she was waiting for! Everybody loves me! A Pink driver drove me here, thank God we have them. Dragana is at home, everything is fine, she’s watching me tonight,” Matora said.

Dragana Stojancevic left Elita 9 before her, which is why Matora faced the cameras on her own this time. It was also the only moment of the night when she did not bring up one of her former housemates.

What did Matora say about Asmin Durdzic?

She was harshest toward Asmin Durdzic, who sat in the same studio that evening as a fellow guest. The reporters asked whether Asmin was angry with her. The answer went several steps past the question.

“Asmin got angry with me? Don’t mess with me! This is the small stuff, what comes later is the real thing! Someone like that gets walked over. He acts like a big shot and he does nothing of the sort,” Matora said.

There is a warning built into that answer. She described what she said outside the studio as an opening, not as the whole score being settled.

Praise for Filip Car, a condition for Maja Marinkovic

Her tone toward Filip Car was the opposite. His was the only name she said all night without a single complaint.

“I love him. He is pure intelligence, he is dear to me,” she said of Car.

For Maja Marinkovic she set a condition. She recalled giving Maja advice inside the house and said she expected Maja to call in during the broadcast.

“If Maja doesn’t call me tonight, that’s her shame. I gave her the best possible advice, why wouldn’t she call me?” Matora said.

That line makes more sense once you know how the format works. Narod Pita runs on the phone: viewers and former contestants call the studio live and put questions to the guests. Matora was not speaking figuratively. She was waiting for a specific phone call, and she said in advance how she would read it if the call never came.

Who else was in the studio

Besides Matora, the guests that night were Asmin Durdzic and Daca Virijevic. All three left Elita 9 with scores to settle:

• Matora against Asmin, over his dealings with Maja Marinkovic
• Asmin against Daca, over Stanija Dobrojevic
• Daca against Asmin, along the same line

Pink promoted the episode as a face-off, so the guest list was part of the pitch rather than an accident. Three names, one time slot, one room, and a host feeding them questions straight off the phone lines.

Matora’s appearance outside the studio lasted less than a minute, and in it she managed to define three separate relationships: a partner watching from home, a former housemate she is fond of, and a former housemate she told that the real thing is still coming. What she left unfinished on Saturday will come back in the next slot, because she said herself that what she had spoken was “the small stuff” next to what she still has to say.