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Just one photo, he doesn't move into the jungle: Lucas Cordalis
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From the dream: The singer Lucas Cordalis will no longer move into the RTL jungle camp.
The risk is just too great, said the moderators Sonja Zietlow and Daniel Hartwich on Sunday evening at the beginning of the show "I'm a star – get me out of here".
Cordalis had traveled to the film location in South Africa, but had tested positive for Corona there.
Most recently, broadcasters - and probably Cordalis himself - had hoped for a late move.
That hope has now been dashed.
Reality star Daniela Katzenberger's husband is doing well, he has no symptoms, the broadcaster announced shortly before the start of the show.
In the case of the singer, the infection was detected in a PCR test after entering South Africa.
The 54-year-old is the son of the first "jungle king" Costa Cordalis and his participation was already certain about a year before the start.
"You've asked me many times and I've always said no," Cordalis had said in mid-2021.
»I thought: One king in the family is enough.
But my father is gone now and I think he'd be happy if I get that far."
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