Overview
- The latest episode shows Aleksandar Petrovic spitting champagne at female participants and includes a separate off-camera audio segment with demeaning remarks about his fiancée.
- Viewers flood social media with complaints, faulting the production for failing to intervene on site and for initially airing the material without contextual comment.
- RTL posts a brief Instagram statement acknowledging the uproar and promising further context at a reunion episode, while urging respectful discussion.
- Moderator Janin Ullmann publicly distances herself with the message "Ein Nein ist ein Nein!", and reality figures Calvin Kleinen and Samira Yavuz criticize Petrovic’s conduct.
- Co-star Wladi Gärtner says contestants did not expect the off-camera audio to be broadcast and notes he tried to rein Petrovic in, as no production penalty has been disclosed.