Janjus Threatens Milan Popov: 'I'll Break You'

Marko Janjusevic Janjus and Milan Popov, son of singer Stoja Novakovic, got into a heated verbal clash last night in the yard of the White House, on the second day of the new Elita season. It never turned physical, but Janjus fired off a serious threat at Popov, according to Telegraf and Informer.

It all started when a new female contestant complained to her housemates that Janjus had kicked her and left a visible bruise. Her name has not been made public. The moment Janjus heard she was telling the others about it, he walked over to the group gathered in the yard and started defending himself, insisting he hadn’t done anything to her and that the whole thing had just been a joke.

That explanation didn’t sit well with Milan Popov. Stoja’s son decided to speak up for the young woman in front of everyone and call out his housemate for what he’d done.

Bro, tone it down a little. It’s not like it isn’t bad… Look how big that bruise is, you can’t just kick her. This isn’t a joke, you went too far, she’s a woman.

That’s what Milan Popov said to Janjus in the yard, with a group of housemates standing around them following the argument.

Janjus lost his temper at those words. Instead of owning up to the incident, he turned his anger on Popov and kept the insults coming.

Why are you butting in? What are you, some kind of moral authority?… I’ll break you like…

That’s what Marko Janjusevic Janjus told Milan Popov directly, in the middle of the argument in the White House yard. He kept hurling names at him, including horse, idiot and moron. According to both outlets, Popov chose at one point to back off and stop arguing so the conflict wouldn’t escalate further. Janjus, on the other hand, kept shouting and insulting him even after Popov had stopped responding.

This is the first serious clash of Elita’s tenth season, which had only kicked off the day before, when the host lit the symbolic flame at 9:18 p.m. Up to last night, coverage had mostly focused on the contestants moving in and who ended up with which bed, which makes this fight the season’s first real drama.

Notably, just before entering the White House, Janjus told the media he was going back into the show under a lot of pressure. He admitted it wasn’t easy for him to sign up for another ten months, even though after his last stint he had said he would never do it again.

I know I’m going in for 10 months again, so I’m under tension… We didn’t fight, I’m good with everyone, I just need to get through these ten months, even though I said ‘never again,’ I must be crazy.

Janjus made that comment right before entering the show, so before the clash with Popov broke out, and it now reads as an early sign of the tension that surfaced just one day later.

Milan Popov entered Elita as one of the contestants of the tenth season and is known primarily as singer Stoja’s son. Until now he hadn’t been at the center of any conflicts, and was mostly known publicly as Stoja’s heir. Last night’s move, speaking up publicly for a housemate, is the first time he has stood out from the rest of the new faces in the house.

Neither Janjus nor Popov has commented further on the incident beyond what aired on the show. Whether the conflict will continue, and whether producers will respond to Janjus’s threat, remains to be seen as the season goes on.