Jovana Jeremic on Ex's Engagement: 'Flower From His Garden'
The TV host spoke out after Dragan Stankovic proposed to Aleksandra, an employee at his bakery, during his 50th birthday party. Jovana Jeremic called her a flower from his own garden.
TV host Jovana Jeremic spoke to the media on August 6, addressing the engagement of her former partner Dragan Stankovic, and for the first time publicly named his chosen one. She is Aleksandra, an employee at Stankovic’s bakery company.
Stankovic proposed to Aleksandra at his 50th birthday party, after three months together. He and Jeremic had been a couple for about two years before that, a relationship that stayed constantly in the media the whole time.
Jeremic opened her statement with a congratulations that quickly turned into something else.
I’m happy that my ex partner seems to have started stabilizing emotionally after our breakup, and I truly believe he will find peace with his fiancee. I wish him all the best in life, and I’m publicly gifting him the title of JJ’s ex boyfriend, which he can use for the rest of his life, and after that, his heirs can use it too, free of charge. All I ask of him is that he carries it with honor, and that this time, at least once in his life, he matches his ambitions to his stamina and his ammunition. That he learns from the mistakes he made in our relationship about how a man should treat a woman.
She then moved on to the fiancee and the job she does.
I think he’s gotten it right this time. The girl is a flower from his own garden, she’s an employee at his company, she’s been making burek for years, and now the two of them will be able to work together on improving bread production and sales so he can pay off the debts he’s been carrying for a while now.
With that line, the story moved out of the personal and into business territory. Because the company she’s talking about isn’t a small shop.
How much is Dragan Stankovic’s bakery business worth?
Stankovic owns a chain of bakeries. His company makes bread, fresh pastries and cakes, and employs more than 650 people.
The company’s publicly disclosed financial results for 2022 look like this:
- revenue 6,248,996,000 dinars
- expenses 5,893,175,000 dinars
- net profit 300,831,000 dinars, more than 2.5 million euros
That’s where a gap opens up that the statement doesn’t explain. Jeremic talks about debts Stankovic has, in her words, been carrying for a while, while the company’s last publicly available annual result shows a positive net profit. The two don’t line up, and Stankovic hasn’t commented on the finances.
What she says about her own place in this story
Jeremic is preparing to marry boxer Milos Stojanovic Tigar, and in the third part of her statement she made clear that it bothers her that her name is still tied to her ex partner.
As far as I’m concerned, I left that relationship a long time ago, at the moment it stopped fitting with my reputation, my standing and my status, and it isn’t fair to my future husband, Milos Stojanovic Tigar, who is a man of the world with a name and a pedigree, for my head to still be hanging next to his. I’ve made him famous enough already. Nobody knew who he was before our relationship, he got a lot for free, so now let me live too and be happy, now that I actually am happy in my private life. I know the algorithms say clickability is higher, and only happens, with my full name attached, I’ve seen research showing I’m behind 80 percent of the headlines, but publicity with him doesn’t mean anything to me anymore, aside from the fact that it puts his relationship with his current fiancee at risk, and that isn’t fair to her either. I wish them a beautiful wedding and two children. From the heart. Just as I wish it for myself. Honestly and from the heart.
The statement asking for her name to be left out of the story is, notably, longer than any other piece of news about the engagement, and she’s the one who revealed the previously unknown detail about the fiancee.
What happens next
Aleksandra’s last name hasn’t been made public, and she hasn’t spoken to the media. Stankovic hasn’t commented on his ex partner’s statement either, not the part about the debts, not the part about the title she gave him.
Two dates are still pending. The first is Stankovic and Aleksandra’s wedding, which hasn’t been officially announced yet. The second is Jeremic and Stojanovic’s wedding, which the host says she’s already preparing for. If both happen this year, the comparison in headline counts will take care of itself, no matter what Jeremic asked for.
