Vlatka Pokos

Vlatka Pokos (Vlatka Vuković) (born 22 March 1970 in Salzburg, Austria) is a Croatian jet setter, former singer and former television host. Due to her controversial lifestyle and up-and-down entertainment career, Vlatka is still, up to this day, a subject of constant media attention.

Vlatka Pokos
Born	22 March 1970 Salzburg, Austria
Occupations	Singer television host

Early life

Vlatka Pokos was born on 22 March 1970 in Salzburg, Austria.^[1] After graduating from high school, she moved to Zagreb.

Career

She started her singing career in late 1980s with the band Srebrna Krila where she was credited for two albums that achieved notable success.^[2] In the early 1990s, she became a television for two major Sunday night television shows (Bravo and Sedma noć) on the Croatian national broadcaster HRT. In the summer of 1995, Pokos launched her only solo hit titled "Petak" (Friday). In 1999 and 2000, she co-hosted Dora, the Croatian national final for Eurovision Song Contest.^[3]

Pokos made her acting debut as a guest in an episode of the 2007 comedy television series Zauvijek susjedi on Nova TV.^[4] She returned to the network in 2022 to participante in the tenth season of Ples sa zvijezdama, a Croatian iteration of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was eliminated first.^[5]

Controversies

In June 2007, her marriage with Josip Radeljak abruptly ended when he kicked her out of their apartment.^[6] A fierce media battle between the two ensued, with Radeljak tossing his wedding ring in Croatian prime-time television show Otvoreno on HRT,^[7] and accusing Vlatka of physically abusing his daughter Lana.^[8] Vlatka then accused him of "treating her worse than his domestic helpers."^[9] In September 2007, Pokos had a guest role in comedy television series Zauvijek susjedi, but tried to stop the broadcast of the episode as she believed her character on the show and the character's nickname "Dekanica" was a parody of her real-life marriage; Pokos claimed she was not given then entire script for the episode upon filming.^[10]

In 2010, Pokos published a book titled Život u raju (English: Life in Heaven), which, although it was criticized as simplistic and banal, received a lot of media attention.^[11] Radoljak's new wife, Dolores Lambaša, started participating in the media battle with Pokos after announcing her book called Život u paklu (English: Life in Hell), which was to document alleged abuses over Radeljak's daughter Lana who Vlatka allegedly mistreated.^[12]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Dora 1999	Herself	Host, with Oliver Mlakar
2000	Dora 2000	Herself	Host, with Marko Rašica
2007	Zauvijek susjedi	Sofija Frajt	1 episode
2007	Nad lipom 35	Herself
2022	Ples sa zvijezdama	Herself	Season 10 contestant

References

1. "FOTO Vlatka Pokos danas slavi 54. rođendan: Evo kako je izgledala na početku karijere..." (in Croatian). 24sata. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
2. "'Na modrom nebu iznad Zagreba...' Ovako je Vlatka Pokos krajem osamdesetih započela karijeru" (in Croatian). RTL. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
3. "Vlatka Pokos očitala lekciju o glamuru voditeljicama Dore: 'Za scenu si rođen ili nisi'". zagreb.info (in Croatian). 25 February 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
4. "Vlatka Pokos (opet) izigrana?" (in Croatian). Index.hr. 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
5. "Vlatka Pokos u 'Plesu sa zvijezdama' posvađala se zbog haljine golog trbuha: 'Jeste li vi normalni'" (in Croatian). Večernji list. 17 March 2022. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
6. "Radeljak izbacio Vlatku iz stana" (in Croatian). Jutarnji list. Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
7. "Radeljak bacajući prsten: Razvodim se!" [Radeljak threw the ring: I'm getting a divorce!]. Jutarnji list. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
8. "Moja istina: 'Vlatka je tukla Lanu'". Jutarnji list. Archived from the original on 12 July 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
9. "Vlatka: Lanu sam znala 'po guzi', Dikan: Vlatka Lanu nije 'samo po guzi'". Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
10. "Vlatka Pokos: Baš su me pošteno namagarčili" [Vlatka Pokos: They really made a fool of me] (in Croatian). 24sata. 27 September 2007. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
11. "Vlatka Pokos kroz suze predstavila knjigu 'Život u raju'" (in Croatian). 18 June 2010. Archived from the original on 16 April 2024.
12. "Ekskluzivni ulomci iz "Života u paklu" Dolores Lambaše" (in Croatian). Index.hr. 18 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.

External links

• The Official Web Presentation