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Welcome to the primetime comeback of “Let's Dance”.
After the family-friendly TV dance entertainment had to do without a hall audience since last year due to the less family-friendly corona virus, the popular quota fillet steak "Let's Dance" (vegan) even took place last Friday without a real "Let's Dance".
Live dancing was of course out of the question on Good Friday.
Prohibited.
The Catholic Church currently has other problems than the monitoring of dance activities on private television, but better safe than sorry.
Last week, for example, “Let's Dance” flickered across the screens on RTL, but it was only a highlight leftover food from the canned food.
It's like waiting for the live game Borussia Dortmund against Bayern Munich at 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays, but then comes the repetition of Alemannia Aachen against Schalke 04 from 2006. Moderated by Jörg Dahlmann.
Translated into English by Lothar Matthäus and then sung as a German contribution to the ESC by Til Schweiger and Scooter.
After 14 days of withdrawal symptoms, the remaining dance celebrities are finally swinging their legs again in real time.
Or as Jan Hofer says: going for a walk.
If we weren't subject to special hygiene and contact regulations, the parking lot in front of the MMC Studios in Cologne would be populated by Rúrik Gíslason fan clubs every Friday.
In a pandemic, of course, they all have to stay at home.
Fortunately, nobody has come up with the idea of calling themselves "Rúrik Gíslason Quertänzer", registering a demo for 600 people on Neumarkt in Cologne and then marching with 10,000 people across the city center to the "Let's Dance" studio.
According to the experience of the past weeks and the courageous intervention of the police (i.e., at least against peaceful, mask-wearing people, those of the dem could accidentally stand in the way of an illegal deployment) is undisputed.
Jan Hofer and Christina Luft at the fifth Let's Dance show
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
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It's not that far yet.
The big summer party with 3 degrees and rain can start without a parking lot fiasco.
Of course, that makes everyone involved so happy that they dress up especially appropriately for the occasion.
Right at the top of the outfit hit list: presenter Victoria Swarovski.
She makes a virtue out of necessity and tinkers herself into a dress from the cellophane packaging material left empty by the kilo from the Easter snack basket.
A very innovative approach to waste avoidance and a good move to tweak your personal carbon footprint.
Of course, Joachim Llambi doesn't want to be inferior in any way.
He decides on an outfit with a message and appears in a salmon pink suit for real estate agents who are young at heart.
He also makes his contribution to environmental protection.
Especially after the very fish-intensive meal plans over Easter, the salmon Llambi sends a strong statement against the overfishing of the world's oceans.
Keyword swimming: At the beginning of the season, professional dancer Christian Polanc was the only one allowed to choose his dance partner.
His choice fell on Lola Weippert.
The "Temptation Island" presenter (greetings to star producer Micha Eden at this point) is considered the face of TVNow, but not necessarily the favorite of Joachim Llambi.
The first rumors are circulating internally that Polanc would ask himself more and more whether he shouldn't have decided on Valentina Pahde after all, if winning the dancing star in the late autumn of his career had really been important to him again.
Valentina Pahde and Valentin Lusin showed full physical effort
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
But it is now too late for that and so Lola and Germany's most famous Tom Cruise impersonator glide across the floor to a song that was once written as an homage to vegetarian pizza: "Margerita".
Lola obviously wants to remember the ex-presenter Sylvie Meis, who was just as surprisingly sawed off by RTL as Dieter Bohlen recently, and is wearing the official outfit of the Dutch national dance team for the occasion.
Polanc, on the other hand, has discovered a wardrobe on the production site that Kai Ebel, who retired before Easter, left behind with 500 of his favorite shirts in revenge for his early release from the dance ensemble.
In production, this room, which looks like Jürgen von der Lippe's walk-in closet, is called the “Hawaii Shrine”.
Out of this potpourri of tastelessness, Polanc opted for an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky for his shirt.
But that can't distract from the fact that Lola's stamina is not yet fully back on track after the Easter holidays.
Joachim Llambi even chooses the word "sedate" for her performance.
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In addition to the assessment that Lola should improve her fitness as soon as possible, we also learn from the jury today: Jorge González and Joachim Llambi are the same age.
At least that's what Joachim Llambi claims.
My top-class, 300-strong research team, which checks facts for the scripted reality format "Monitor" from WDR full-time, has determined in an extensive analysis: That is not true.
Llambi was born in 1964, González in 1967. After all, three years difference.
Well, maybe everything beyond 50 within a radius of plus minus five counts as the same age.
I won't know for another 30 years.
Well, in 25. NA GOOD, in 19!
Lola Weippert is being whirled through the air by dance partner Christian Polanc
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Then the crowd favorite Jan Hofer sneaks along the boulevard of movement aesthetes at the side of his professional partner Christina Luft.
Unfortunately, he gives the ambitious Christina (last year Vice Dancing Star with Luca Hänni) the same sobering record as RTL the new podcast by Katja Burkard and Hendrik Streeck.
In any case, Motsi observed that Jan had "dropped Christina".
Nicholas Puschmann is already operating more successfully.
He is now called the “apocalypse and filter coffee” of dance VIPs.
Delivering spectacularly every week and wearing weird clothes.
On the other hand, he comes from the Easter break without an additional gram of euphoria.
And contrary to what you would expect from a reality TV influencer who primarily takes place on Instagram, his secret recipes for this are not fitness tea or diet pills, but tough renouncement of soft drinks.
Nicholas never drinks colas (watch out now!).
You understand?
Never mind.
Nicholas doesn't care about bad puns about his name anyway.
Rightly.
After 30 points in show four, he also got an excellent 29 points in show five today.
It's spectacular how Nicholas always motivates himself.
He doesn't need a push for that, man.
Yes I'm sorry.
But sometimes quite unironically: Watching Nicholas Puschmann and Vadim Garbuzow dance is simply pure entertainment.
Sounds like a review of a ZDF song evening with Carmen Nebel in the local section of the “Westfälische Nachrichten”, but it is meant seriously.
Anyone who, with the fantastic energy and dynamism of the two, manages to somehow see "two men" instead of a cheerful, powerful dance couple and then also find that unsuitable, has not understood dancing and entertainment, and to be honest: neither does life .
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Nicholas remains stable, while Ilse DeLange tries to change.
She seems to have been busy with guitars over Easter.
In any case, before her performance, she announces that she wants to put on different strings today.
She's doing quite well.
She brings in 25 points.
In contrast, Barack Obama's sister Auma Obama only got 16 points.
And that although Motsi Mabuse discovered a lot of positive things about her dance: "Above all the leg action, i.e. the use of the knee".
And that's important.
Almost as important as the leak action, namely the use of buckets when the boat is full of water.
When the points are handed in for Auma, the TV audience experiences a real lambigate again.
González and Mabuse each give 7 points, the chief judge is stunned and gives two.
Five points difference in an evaluation, that has not happened often in the "Let's Dance" history.
Auma Obama, author, and Andrzej Cibis received only 16 points from the jury
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Boxer Simon Zachenhuber and the designated heiress of Ekatarina Leonova, Patricija Belousova, experience a similar experience.
The outrage on the net is great when both get only 20 points.
Everywhere one senses antipathy among the jurors and considers Simon to be mercilessly undervalued.
Continuously inhuman accomplishments, but mercilessly little rewarded.
Simon Zachenhuber is practically the medical specialist in the dance world.
There is at least one useful tip from the jury trio.
Motsi Mabuse recommends a cleaning crew: "You really have everything, only you have to clean it up".
Actor Erol Sander got it worse.
Dr.
Joachim Llambi, the Christian Drosten of the dance scene, even goes back to the urologists with great precision and attests to Sander: “Downstairs is the dance of death with you”.
Things are going better even with Jan Pillemann Otze.
Yes / Yes.
Nomen est omen.
The Münsterländer star tenor and Pillemann expert became known to the general public under his stage name Mickie Krause and wins the hearts of the audience with refreshing honesty: "I dance like an angular ball".
That fits well, after all, he also sings like a round cube.
In any case, Sander receives 13 points, Krause 16. Now one might assume that that would only be three points.
At the flyweight level of these dance luminaries, however, this is comparable to the difference between the “Spiegel” (almost 650,000 copies) and the “TV Digital” (just under 1.8 million copies).
"TV Digital" -Mickie wins the jury ranking against "Spiegel" -Sander.
A judgment that is confirmed shortly afterwards by the audience.
Erol Sander has to go, although Mabuse, González and Llambi gave him one point more than Jan Hofer.
Hofer apparently has a larger fan base than Sander.
In the end, it wasn't enough for Erol Sander.
He had to leave the show
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Rúrik Gíslason and Valentina Pahde will of course also dance before the big expulsion finale of today's fifth show.
Both again deliver largely flawless and technically impressive performances and are virtually set for the final.
More exciting than the question of whether Valentina receives 30 points and Rúrik 29 or vice versa this week is actually more of who will win the inter-family competition in the Lusin house in the end.
Valentin Lusin dances with Valentina Pahde.
Renata Lusin dances with Rúrik Gíslason.
There is a lot to suggest that there may be a duel between Lusin and Lusin in the season finale.
Actually, according to the current state of affairs and performance, only Nicholas Puschmann can still slide in between and prevent the Lusin Final Festival.
And what else was going on?
So we don't want to throw the child out with the pahde, but Valentina is one of the big favorites of this dance year, especially for Joachim Llambi.
And also Rúrik Gíslason, who in the past six weeks has danced his way up from discarded second division kicker to Germany's new sex symbol, will definitely stay with us for a few more weeks.
In this respect, I apologize for concentrating on other candidates during the scientific analysis of the dance evening in Cologne-Ossendorf this week.
I promise it will be different again next week.
Until then!
Tanzmarie with jury member Motsi Mabuse
Source: Marie von den Benken
Marie von den Benken is on Twitter and Instagram as @Regendelfin, she is from Hamburg, model and author. She also writes every week on ICONIST about the big and small dramas on “Germany's Next Topmodel” and “Let's Dance” (to be seen every Friday on RTL and TVNow).
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