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Episode eight at Germany's Next Top Model - and the week couldn't have been more different for the only two German TV stars who can only be filmed with at least twelve times overexposure: Dieter Bohlen and Heidi Klum.
RTL puts planks in front of the door.
He reacts exactly as I do when I should give a presentation at school: yellow certificate for the rest of the season.
Klum, on the other hand, is getting better ratings than it has been for eight years.
Whereby: eight years, that sounds like a lot at first.
But it's basically just the net airtime if you string together all the uncut scenes in which Linda gossips about Soulin.
But more on that later.
Now let's look at the episode.
And it starts out colorful.
For example, Romy wears Dieter Bohlen's yellow note as a shooting outfit today.
Shortly before that, the assumption germinates that it would be a nude shoot again.
Because Heidi Klum solemnly proclaims: “Finally the time has come, the pos edition is here!” Instead of a tangible sexism scandal, this is just a hearing defect.
Klum mumbled today as if she had breakfasted a Til Schweiger.
In fact, she means: "The Pose Edition".
Just stop at Denglish.
It's so confusing, even Thomas Hayo claps the hands over the head together.
Alex, Soulin, Mareike and Romina fight against gravity
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But then it gets down to business.
Romina is nibbling on the strawberry jam.
No, little fun.
Since Klum forced her to change the hair color of the fire department when she made a makeover, Romina probably hates everything that is red.
No, GNTM shows solidarity with the Chancellor.
Angela Merkel overturns the Easter resolutions and ProSieben overturns the girls.
In a kind of upright type case that rotates, four girls are exposed to gravity and the embarrassment of bright neon-colored outfits at the same time.
Fortunately, they don't have antennas on their heads, otherwise this group of colored boxing girls would look a bit like Teletubbies in yoga mode.
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Color analyst Linda is the most lucky.
She wears orange.
She gives her a thumbs up for that, because: "I hate yellow".
As if she didn't have enough public headwinds after her eight-week crusade against Soulin, she has now lost it with all BVB fans.
Which isn't even the worst news for Linda this week.
Favorite enemy Soulin is sure of victory: "I am the Queen of Poses".
Linda, on the other hand, is more of the antics queen.
To make matters worse, Soulin seems to be right at first.
Up to the last group, Klum identifies them as "the best so far".
But only just ahead of Romina, whose floor gymnastics talent leaves a lasting impression: "Romina will soon be doing a balancing act".
Which, by the way, is not meant in terms of time.
I say that to be on the safe side, because anyone who was allowed to witness Heidi Klum using the past perfect could rightly assume so.
Large selection of equipment for the perfect shooting set
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A winner will be chosen from each group of four immediately after the respective shoot - and she will be honored accordingly.
Soulin, the winner of the first group, promises Klum: "You will be happy when you see your prize".
So it's definitely not an oil painting by Linda.
After three groups have completed the battery pack shoot, Soulin is the only one who is allowed to actively intervene a second time.
There are currently 15 candidates in the race.
But that is difficult to divide by four without severing body parts.
So “the best so far” is allowed to stand by the remaining three candidates.
This is Soulin.
For the ambitious Hamburg woman, instead of the hoped-for triumphal procession, the crash begins.
In the last group, Yasmin suddenly secured the victory and even left the all-time best Soulin behind.
Following the “World Cup winner” category established by FC St. Pauli, Yasmin snatches the title of boxing world champion away from Soulin shortly before the end of the last round.
You can see from Soulin that a second place is as attractive for her as the option for RTL to replace Dieter Bohlen with Kevin Kühnert on DSDS.
But that's not all.
First the ungrateful silver medal, and then a tangible show accusation.
Linda believes she has identified strange behaviors with Soulin: "In one moment she is crying because Jasmine won't come back, but when the camera is gone, she is dead happy again."
What exactly the state of "dead happy" means remains her secret.
Maybe something like hungry or deafening quiet.
By the way, Jasmine (be careful not to be confused with Yasmin) actually has to retire.
For health reasons.
All the best and get well soon!
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On the other hand, Alex is still there.
And today she surprisingly jumps aside for Linda.
She too seems to quarrel with Soulin's ambivalent on / off camera face: “Soulin's emotions regarding Jasmine's exit were not the same in front of and behind the camera”.
A very serious allegation.
Does Soulin consciously play with emotions and mood in order to put yourself in a symphytic light?
In any case, Alex doesn't seem to rule out that: "I doubt the intensity of your emotions".
Is there an unexpected Alex / Linda alliance against Soulin forming?
Alex has so far flowed to pretty much all the audience's hearts.
Does she actually risk this lead in affection for an unnecessary behavioral interpretation excursus on the subject of camera behavior?
One can stay excited.
Before that, Ashley explains her tactics for the type case shoot: "You try to make cool poses and not forget your face".
Overall a stable project.
Very few models who come to the set without a face start a world career with it.
One of them doesn't see how the other is posing: Luca and Yasmin
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At home in the loft the full-bodied, announced super gifts are already waiting for the four winners: a make-up set and a shopping voucher for 1000 euros.
The winners then freaked out for a few minutes as unrestrainedly as if you could vaccinate yourself against corona with lip gloss.
Romy seems particularly euphoric.
She is allergic to beauty products and is therefore never put on make-up.
What could be nicer than a make-up set?
At most, Michael Wendler's joy would be even greater if a life-size statue of Oliver Pocher was placed in his living room.
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Keyword allergic reaction: Linda, who messes up her posing because she hates yellow and soul and is not one of the winners, is by no means jealous: "If I want make-up for 1000 euros, I'll just get it".
If you consider that German retailers suffered around 3.75 billion euros in damage through shoplifting in 2020, of course not a long-term sustainable concept.
The winner, Elisa, is more modest and is the only one who shares the contents of her make-up set among the non-winners: “I would have been happy about 100 euros.
For 1000 euros, you can buy a small car ”.
However, online shops for cosmetic utensils rarely offer cars.
Mostly not even an Opel Mokka.
Before the question arises whether Linda would have tried harder if the price had been a voucher for 1000 cartons of cigarettes, the next day is already and the training for the decision challenge begins.
Heidi's girls are inclined during the shoot
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The first thing the candidates see in connection with their new challenge are four chairs lined up in the middle of the room.
Cool, you think: Final Walk this week as a trip to Jerusalem.
But wrong.
It's about the dance variant of high heels, which is extremely important for models.
We learn that even dance luminaries like Beyoncé or Jennifer Lopez are fans of high heels dance.
Heidi Klum, on the other hand, does not.
She cannot be seen during the entire training session.
Instead, trainer Sonia Bartuccelli takes care of a crash course.
It quickly becomes clear: the choreography has it all.
Or as Hayo fan Linda says: "Fuck, I can't safely remember that".
Understandable.
Your capacities to remember things are completely exhausted.
After all, she has to remember every word that Soulin says.
The most important tip from Coach Sonia is then: "Hold the chair tight".
That sounds a bit disgusting at first, but the all-clear: The seat is meant.
Then the girls wriggle to their personal flash dance moment.
And that with a special highlight.
Heidi Klum has come up with something special for the Final Dance / Walk: “When making the decision, the girls will come into contact with water for the first time”.
Well, of course that's not true.
Tears also consist primarily of water and some of the candidates are said to have even showered in the past eight weeks.
And what else was going on?
But before it gets damp, things get complicated.
The second most important tip for a successful high heels dance is namely: "You talk a lot with your face".
No wonder, there is also the mouth.
Expert Sonia reveals: “Dance shows me everything.
I see immediately what the person feels ”.
Hopefully she'll never watch me dance.
No matter what style, when I dance I always look like my only feeling is: I urgently need to go to the bathroom.
While the candidates assume that they will only get a little wet in the final dance because a gentle breath of drizzle pours on their lightly clad bodies like a romantic summer thunderstorm, ProSieben has other plans.
The surprised girls are pressed into the chairs by a jet of water, against which a hook on the right by Wladimir Klitschko looks like the spaghetti scene in “Susi & Trolch”.
The whole thing is somewhat like the “Ice Bucket Challenge”, only with an industrial high-pressure cleaner.
Guest juror Valentina Sampaio and Heidi Klum rate the candidates' performance
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At the side of supermodel Valentina Sampaio, the first transgender model on the cover of "Vogue", Heidi Klum then assesses the candidates' progress in the decision challenge.
The wetter the catwalk gets, the greater the slip rate.
In the end, Soulin does very well - but not repeatedly as the best.
This time Elisa snatches pole position from her.
Yasmin wins the boxing shoot, Elisa the challenge.
Soulin is only left with the title in the category: Who knows the most facial expressions for "How, I wasn't the best?"
Yasmin in a pink neon look
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Things are not going as well for Alysha.
Even the shooting didn't go optimally and she couldn't score at the final dance either: "I was overwhelmed because it was dark and then the blatant lights".
Of course, Klum does not accept the excuse.
Rightly.
What else is next?
"I was overwhelmed because it was light and then the stark darkness"?
The logical consequence: Alysha's journey ends today.
Heidi Klum has no photo for her.
For Alysha "a dream is bursting".
The only consolation is there: financially, she has probably paid off.
With the amount of liquid that is pressed through her mouth and nose during the challenge, she will probably be able to supply half of Europe with drinking water for a few years.
Next week it will be less humid for the girls, but more airy.
A shoot is waiting on one of the tallest buildings in Berlin.
Personally, I'm particularly excited about Romina.
Today she had already revealed her "total fear of heights" at the almost five meter high box for the Teletubbies shoot.
I will report how Romina does when it goes up about 20 times that high.
Exactly here!
See you on Friday!
Marie von den Benken
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Marie von den Benken is on Twitter and Instagram as @Regendelfin, she is from Hamburg, model and author. In addition, she writes every week on ICONIST about the big and small dramas at “Germany's Next Topmodel”.
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