Dr Iggy: I Would Have Killed Them All

Igor Todorovic, known by his stage name Dr Iggy, one of the most recognizable performers on the Serbian scene in the 1990s, has given his first detailed account of what happened behind the scenes of a famous 1995 hidden camera segment. He appeared as a guest on the show “Demanti” on the Informer portal’s YouTube channel, which aired on August 27 starting at 8 p.m., and the portal published his statements on August 28 at 10:50 a.m.

The singer, born on November 22, 1970, in Belgrade, recalled the filming on Treci kanal (Channel Three), where the show was hosted by Tamara Raonic, with Gru and Montenigersi as the studio guests. According to him, they attacked him at the time, claiming he had brought fans to Sava Centar and that he wasn’t a real star, and he had no idea it was all set up for a hidden camera. He said a friend approached him after the filming and explained it had all been a joke, but that Gru and Montenigersi genuinely meant what they were saying in the moment, shielded only by the fact that it was a hidden camera.

Dr Iggy also described his own reaction in that moment, which by his own account was far from calm.

“Hey, we were just joking around. I went to my car, I had some gun. If they hadn’t stopped me, I would have killed them all. I have a very high tolerance threshold, but when I snap, everyone better run,” the singer said on the show “Demanti.”

He did not specify exactly who stopped him before he could return, armed, to the circle where the show was being filmed, but he made it clear he had experienced the situation as a serious threat, not as a harmless joke at his own expense.

Later in the conversation, Dr Iggy listed the people from that crew who have since died or fallen seriously ill, remarking that he was sorry they were no longer alive.

“Didn’t Montenigers die? Didn’t Gru die? Didn’t Igor have a brain tumor and barely survive? Didn’t Milenko Zablacanski, who was behind the camera, die? I mean, I’m really sorry they’re not with us anymore, but just think about what happened to them,” Dr Iggy said.

Milenko Zablacanski worked behind the camera on that 1995 episode, while Gru and Montenigersi were the studio guests who, by the singer’s account, confronted him directly on camera. Dr Iggy did not give an exact cause of death or the year any of them died; he simply listed the names in order and stated that each of them had, in the meantime, gone through something difficult, from Montenigersi and Gru, through his own illness, to Milenko Zablacanski.

In the same episode of “Demanti,” the singer also revisited the financial side of his 1990s career. He said that at the peak of his fame he earned 50,000 German marks a month, a sum that at the time placed him among the highest-paid performers on the domestic scene.

Throughout the conversation, Dr Iggy repeatedly stressed the difference between the joke itself and what he, as its target, felt in that moment. The 1995 incident, he says, has stayed with him precisely because of how quickly he went from having fun to raging, enough to reach for the gun in his own car. Today, three decades later, he speaks openly about that moment, listing the names of the people he shared the stage with back then, people who, as he puts it himself, are either no longer alive or are battling serious illness.