Animal-loving jungle camp candidate Tessa annoys the moderator duo enormously: "We got it!"

Created: 01/15/2023 21:01

By: Jonas Erbas

As a vegan, Tessa Bergmeier has a really hard time in the jungle camp.

The RTL viewers sent them into the jungle test – but Sonja Zietlow and Jan Köppen also reached their limits there.

Murwillumbah – Already at the start of the jungle camp (January 13), Tessa Bergmeier (33) made no secret of her moral convictions: almost provocatively, the former GNTM participant pushed her vegan lifestyle on her fellow candidates and the television audience.

The spectators took their revenge and chose the 33-year-old in the jungle test in the first telephone vote of the new "I'm a star – get me out of here!"

All kinds of little animals were waiting there – and a duo of moderators who quickly lost patience.

Tessa Bergmeier suffers in the jungle camp exam – Sonja Zietlow and Jan Köppen are losing patience

In the "Hor-Rohr", an underground canal system inhabited by lizards, snakes, crabs and spiders, Tessa Bergmeier had the opportunity to earn a total of twelve stars for herself and the other jungle camp candidates.

But just a few seconds after the model entered the shaft, she felt compassion: "Here is a crab.

Oh god, I'm so sorry."

In the fight for the twelve stars, Tessa Bergmeier has to deal with a wide variety of animals.

As a convinced vegan and animal rights activist, she cannot accept this and complains practically every second.

For Jan Köppen and Sonja Zietlow, the jungle test itself becomes a nervous stress test (photomontage) © Screenshot/RTL/RTL+/I'm a star – get me out of here!

Sonja Zietlow (54) and Jan Köppen (39) initially reacted calmly and tried to appease the 33-year-old: "The cancer is in its habitat – in the water!" But Tessa didn't seem to calm down at all.

"I do not want to hurt you.

I don't want that," she repeated almost like a mantra.

The moderators' initial understanding quickly turned into displeasure: "Do you want to cancel?" Sonja Zietlow asked annoyed.

The jungle exam turned into a real drama: When Tessa worried that she "had given the cancer a body check earlier", the 54-year-old moderator replied mockingly: "Yes, we will examine him in a moment.

Doctor Bob will give everything.”

PETA demands vegan jungle tests from RTL: "Animal suffering is not entertainment."

Just a day before the jungle camp went into season 16, the animal welfare organization PETA wrote an open letter to RTL.

In it, the US-based association calls on the Cologne broadcaster to make the jungle tests vegan in the future.

"Animal suffering is not entertainment," the letter said.

One should "finally stop the abuse of animals for entertainment purposes and hold all exams exclusively with vegan food and without live animals".

Tessa Bergmeier would fulfill a corresponding role model function in this year's season.

However, the appeal was of no use: At the start, the candidates once again had to eat eyes, testicles and tongues, among other things.

Jungle camp moderators totally annoyed – Tessa Bergmeier causes displeasure during the exam

A corridor filled with insects finally pushed Tessa to her limits: "If I wanted to go through there now, I would have to hurt them," she stated resignedly.

The "I'm a star – get me out of here!" moderators (all jungle camp broadcast dates 2023) seemed to be running out of patience: "Yes, then don't do it," Sonja Zietlow shouted grumpily at the jungle camp candidate and twisted - from the incessant complaints visibly annoyed - the eyes, while colleague Jan Köppen made a face.

However, a cockroach lying on its back made it difficult for the animal rights activist.

At this point, the moderator duo had long since taken every statement by Tessa as a template for mocking comments: "Yes, she sleeps on her back.

She's a back sleeper," joked Sonja Zietlow flippantly.

Another, this time addressed to a spider, "I don't want to hurt you," made the measure: "I think we got it!" The presenter immediately followed, tense.

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In the end, Tessa, who had carefully searched the tunnel system, got three stars out of a possible twelve.

With the animal welfare she addressed in the camp, however, the model was only able to collect a few plus points.

Co-candidate Gigi (23) could not quite understand the motives of the 33-year-old and suspected that the crabs used in the test would end up in the saucepan anyway.

The RTL program polarizes – and does not fascinate everyone: the jungle camp recently had to admit defeat in a ZDF series duel.