Nives Zeljković, known by her stage nameNives Celzijus, is a Croatian model, singer and writer. She is the current columnist for unknown magazine and the ex-wife of the footballer Dino Drpić.
Personal and media life
Nives was born in Zagreb, at the time part of Yugoslavia. Her biological, estranged, father Spaso Čanković was born in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina and works as a writer in Slovenia. Her mother is named Mira. She is an ethnic Serb. Her parents separated prior to her birth. During the Croatian War, she was abused due to her surname. She has stated that she was raped at the age of 16 by a Dinamo Zagreb player, though she will not reveal his name. She lived in Belgrade for a couple of years before returning to Zagreb, where she released the song "Na koljena" which became a hit. Nives Celzijus was married to football player Dino Drpić, with whom she has two children, Leone and Taiša. The couple has been named "David and Victoria Beckham of Baden" in Germany. As a guest of Serbian RTV Pink show Ami G Show on 22 January 2009, Celzijus stated she and her husband had sex in an empty Stadion Maksimir, a statement which attracted a lot of media attention. In October 2009 she was sentenced by the Municipal Criminal Court for defamation, after she stated in an interview for Serbian Playboy magazine that her father molested her. In 2008 Celsius and husband Dino made headlines across Europe in a bizarre story. While vacationing on the Croatian island of Krk, their son Leone was mistakenly identified as the abducted UK girl Madeleine McCann, who was last seen in Portugal. In 2014 Celsius divorced her husband Dino Drpić. In 2014, Celsius was a judge in the eleventh episode of the first season of Tvoje lice zvuči poznato, the Croatian version of the showYour Face Sounds Familiar. On January 27, 2017 it was revealed that Nives would compete in the fourth season of the show. She won only one of the 12 episodes, imitating Ylvis with the song "The Fox ", but she still got enough points to qualify to the final round achieving the second highest number of points. In the final, she imitated Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the smash hit song "Dani California", which lead her to the victory. She was the first female winner of the show. As a contestant, she was a public favourite, with performances imitating Keith Flint of The Prodigy, Severina, Zvonko Bogdan, Sylvester Stallone from the 1976 filmRocky, and many more. She was the judge for the fifth season, alongside the previous winners.
