Taki to Enter Elita 10: Now It's My Turn

Radomir Marinkovic Taki, father of Maja Marinkovic, announced on August 5 that he is entering Elita 10. He named one man as the reason, Filip Car, who had signed his contract for the same season five days earlier.

Until now it was his daughter who kept walking into the show’s house. This time he is flipping the script.

“Maja won’t be going into Elita anymore, now I’m going in to settle the score,” Marinkovic said in a statement to reporters. He never said Car’s name in that sentence, he called him the bully from Crikvenica, the Croatian town Car is associated with. The rest of the conversation made clear who he meant, since he immediately added that he had heard the man signed a contract.

He also told him to repeat in person what he says online. “Let him say to my face what he says on TikTok, since he doesn’t dare come to Belgrade,” Marinkovic said.

Car signed his contract on July 31

Car signed his contract to take part in the show inside Zeljko Mitrovic’s office, at the Pink television building. The owner of Pink said at the time that the negotiations had not been simple, since Car had asked for certain women not to be part of the project. None of those requests were granted.

Mitrovic also mentioned the condition he set for Car before the signing:

“He didn’t put a veto on any of them, even though he tried, but that wasn’t acceptable. I told him violence is strictly forbidden, I’d like it forgotten too, since every once in a while when he drinks he loses control, he likes to bicker, but I think we settled that as well.”

Car took part in the show’s fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. The tenth season starts in September, and the production’s plan is to bring back standout cast members from earlier seasons.

Why the two announcements clash

The television owner told cameras that violence is strictly forbidden on the show and that this was the condition for Car’s return. Five days later, a man who has just announced he is entering the same season is promising a showdown. Two statements about the same house, from the same week, do not sit well together.

Earlier seasons also explain where that showdown comes from. Maja Marinkovic and Car were a couple during the seasons he took part in, and their relationship was one of the main storylines of those episodes. Today they are in court.

Taki says his daughter sued him for attempted murder, kidnapping and taking her phone and personal documents. The case has not been concluded, Car is only named here because he appears in the lawsuit, there is no verdict yet and guilt has not been established.

The veto Car asked for and did not get applied to women from earlier seasons. His ex girlfriend’s father was not on that list.

What he said about the Durdzic family

Marinkovic also spoke about the parents of Asmin Durdzic, Mevlida and Mustafa Durdzic, who had appeared on the show Narod Pita. He kept it brief: “They’re zero to me. I don’t want to have any contact with people like that.”

He also claims Asmin’s father is a paid subscriber to Stanija Dobrojevic’s content and is in love with her. Nobody on the other side has confirmed that part of his story.

He does not support his daughter’s relationship with Durdzic and said so plainly: “I’m her father. I don’t support that relationship.” On the fight that ended with a smashed windshield and a broken phone, he says the version that reached the public got it wrong:

“Maja doesn’t have a single scratch on her, and the fact that someone does their own thing, bangs on windshields with their hands and gets two small scratches, that’s manipulation again.”

He added that it was not easy for him when people called and sent him the video, and that he is on medication.

Stanija, a possible clash in the new season

If Stanija Dobrojevic also joins the tenth season, Marinkovic is promising that confrontation too. He has been at odds with her since the previous season, which she entered and, as he tells it, immediately went after him. His version of the dispute goes back further, to two sets of clothes he wanted to send his daughter inside the house, which Dobrojevic refused to bring in, saying she did not want to influence how the show played out.

Marinkovic is no stranger to this storyline. His comments about the Durdzics, Car and Stanija ran through the whole previous season, but this is the first time he has announced he is entering himself.

For his daughter, he has a different plan. He says he cannot deny her anything, but that she should take a break from the show, finish renovating her apartment and travel. He also mentioned a figure: he gave her 12,000 euros for the renovation, and he is ready to pay for ten days of vacation for her as soon as the workers finish.

For now, only one signature for the tenth season is public, Car’s. Mitrovic is keeping the rest of the list to himself, and the season is set to begin in September.