Tanasijevic: Dalila Wanted a Million Euros for Elita 10

Host Darko Tanasijevic said Dalila Dragojevic demanded a million euros to join Elita 10, the reality show premiering on Pink on September 5 as an “all stars” edition.

Tanasijevic recently returned from vacation and announced preparations and the cast list for the new season. He admitted he is most looking forward to Filip Car’s return, then addressed rumors that Dalila could also join him in the house.

“Dalila hasn’t contacted me. She asked for a million euros? If someone wants to give her that money, let them give it to her. Why not, let her come, great,” Tanasijevic said on a television show.

This is the same Dalila whose turbulent relationship with Filip Car once defined the show, so their potential reunion in the house would be one of the most anticipated moments of the new season.

While the public speculated about her fee, her ex husband Dejan Dragojevic had already closed the door on his own possible return to the show, in an interview with Telegraf published on August 21 at 9:01 PM. The winner of Zadruga 5 said no sum of money would get him into Elita 10.

Although he has successfully launched his own YouTube channel with more than 122,000 subscribers, Dejan says he is strict about who he invites and keeps his distance from certain people from his past.

“I would invite Filip Car onto my podcast, I even wrote to him, but I would never invite Dalila, nor would I do it for any amount of money. My peace of mind has no price,” Dragojevic told Telegraf.

He added, briefly: “I would not go in there under any conditions.”

In the same interview, Dejan also disputed the figures circulating about fees for the upcoming season, saying they are inflated compared to reality. According to him, the amounts being discussed publicly are at least 50,000 euros higher than what participants actually receive.

He also explained why even a large payday from the show would not change his decision at the moment, despite admitting that his business has failed.

“We shut down the business. There was also a pregnancy, and the expenses are really high,” Dragojevic said, citing the cost of living in Belgrade, rent and contributions as the reasons he had to close the company.

Asked about his private life with girlfriend Jovana, who is pregnant, Dejan was clear that a big celebration is out of the question. He said there will be no wedding with 300 guests, only a ceremony within the family circle, if it happens at all. He also admitted that for four years he has not been able to move around the city freely, since people stop him at every turn because of the show, so he avoids the beach and the pool. He added that he is not proud of the show, since there, as he put it, he only “won a psychological game,” and he is neither an athlete nor someone who invented a cure to deserve the attention people give him.

Tanasijevic’s statement about Dalila’s fee was published on August 27 at 12:30 PM, a week after Dejan’s interview, and came just as Elita’s production is putting together the cast list for the all stars season. Our outlet previously wrote about Tanasijevic himself ahead of the new season, in the article “Tanasijevic before Elita 10: ‘I heard a big name is coming in.’” For now, neither Dalila nor Dejan are in the house, one reportedly over the fee she is asking, the other by his own, loudly stated choice.