Elita 10 Begins: Mitrovic Lights Flame at 9:18 PM

Elita’s tenth, anniversary season began on Saturday, September 5, at exactly 9 pm, at the estate in Simanovci. Host Dusica Jakovljevic opened the evening in a red dress. The ceremony started at 9:14 pm, and four minutes later, at 9:18, Zeljko Mitrovic lit the eternal flame, officially opening the new season.

Gondola or flying car? Sources disagree

Media outlets do not agree on how Mitrovic and Stanija Dobrojevic, winner of the previous season, arrived at the estate. Kurir claims the two rode in on a gondola. Telegraf and Informer, on the other hand, report that they flew over Belgrade in a flying car before landing in Simanovci. Mitrovic piloted the aircraft himself, with his favorite song, “My Way,” playing during the ride.

Stanija first arrived at the estate by car, at 8:27 pm, and gave no statements to reporters at that point. She did not take off with Mitrovic until 9:04 pm. For that ride, as she said live on air, she had to change her wardrobe plans.

Zeljko strictly forbade me from wearing a dress because of this ride, so I had to wear this jumpsuit instead.

Before takeoff, Mitrovic himself previewed the flight in comments to Pink.

I’m bringing Stanija in by flying car, so I need to go change before we head into town.

A Millennium palace, a theater, and a call from Van Damme

Mitrovic also announced a list of new rooms in the house. These include a Millennium palace, a sports hall, a theater, and a spiritual advisor, and he added that there will also be an art pawnshop.

This season of Elita will bring together everything that’s best, it won’t be based only on emotional relationships but also on art. It will have an art pawnshop, a lot of new things.

During the announcement, actor Jean-Claude Van Damme called in live to wish Mitrovic luck for the season opener. Mitrovic also said that Mel Gibson is becoming an ambassador for their studio and that foreign film projects are on the way. The broadcast is being covered by 40 drones, and Mitrovic said the season will be watched by audiences in 40 to 50 countries.

Terza and Milica: a correction about the christening

Miljana Kulic and Borislav Terzic Terza were the first to arrive at the estate, around 8:14 pm. Before going in, Terza told reporters that he and his former fiancee Milica Velickovic had smoothed things over after an earlier falling out over infidelity, and that he had spent time the previous evening with their daughter, Barbara.

Milica and I have a phenomenal relationship, the kind we should have. Everything is different now. It was hard for me last night when I left her with Milica, but now I feel it more when I spend time with our daughter.

I realized what I had been doing. She’s the one taking care of our daughter, and I don’t want to say another bad word about Milica.

Milica and Terza had already reconciled once before, seeing each other again at their daughter Barbara’s christening after their fight. Their first meeting after that christening came more recently, on the Montenegrin coast. That was a separate, later encounter, not the christening itself.

Miljana Kulic also showed reporters at the gate the contents of her bag, which, she said, held 110 dinars.

Arrivals kept coming right up to the end

Sladja Porselina was the first to reach the estate gate. Ivan Marinkovic and Stefan Karic arrived at 8:27 pm and 8:29 pm. The last to arrive, at 9:43 pm, already after the season’s official opening, was Uros Stanic, sporting hair extensions, long lashes, and long nails. He announced that he is entering the tenth season as a woman.

In Elita 10, I am a woman. I’m exclusively changing my sex on Pink.

At the entrance he needled Miljana Kulic, with whom he has clashed since previous seasons, and she answered him with curses.

This outlet had previously reported on the run-up to this season, when Mitrovic unveiled six of the cast members. Saturday night’s opening showed that the list of names, and arrivals, ran far longer than that.