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Love is the most beautiful language in the world. Hollywood knows that, the music industry knows that, the literary business knows that. Everyone knows that. Well, everyone, except 53 amateur actors and top virologists around the demigod in white, Rocher scientist Jan Josef Liefers. Out of boredom after 14 months of pandemic, they preferred to bake a shit storm together instead of the 400th banana bread under the hashtag #allesdichtmachen. That wasn't very clever, because they had to deal with inquiries from journalists all Friday. Instead of the hoped-for widespread popularity from the so-called center, there is mainly malice and incomprehension from precisely those people who otherwise like to watch “Tatort”.
But then one is confused in the beautiful, freshly renovated old apartments in Berlin Mitte: Why are so many so upset now? Above all, the medical nursing staff, who work in 16-hour shifts every day in intensive care units to prevent the number of 81,000 corona deaths from increasing too much? Can't they just keep paying their radio license fees and thus also the lavish fees of the, well, actors and otherwise leave the thinking to the artist elite from the Grill Royal clique?
You want to sarcastically satirize day-to-day political affairs and as a thank you, the 120,000 euro Bulthaupt kitchen suddenly no longer smells of intellectual celebrity casserole, but of brown swirl sauce.
And hymns of praise from Alice Weidel to Hans-Georg Maaßen haunt through this darned Internet.
The whole evening was messed up just because the country is too stupid to distinguish bitter irony from lateral thinker and Covid denier propaganda.
Poet and thinker, haha.
These are all Merkel marionettes left-green in color.
You can't say anything more!
Love Week at "Let's Dance"
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One could have done so many beautiful things on this Friday. Love for example. Either yourself or from the television. Because love is the most beautiful language in the world. You remember? In any case, RTL remembers - and heralds Love Week on “Let's Dance”.
To celebrate love, the management team of Germany's most diverse flagship primetime family show wears mainly red tonight. A feast for the eyes after all the poetic pitying looks from the Liefers videos. Even the moderation duo Daniel Hartwich (red shirt, red shoes) and Victoria Swarovski (red prom dress) never looked more harmonious. This week only Nora Tschirner, Christian Ulmen and Elyas M'Barek saw so much red when they had to watch their colleagues dismantling themselves. And Jan Hofer. In terms of jury points, he has been wearing the red lantern since the beginning of the season.
In order to forget this Friday fiasco as quickly as possible, Joachim Llambi ignites his first Zoten rocket after just six minutes.
He asks Daniel Hartwich after Auma Obama's first dance: “Did you play pocket billiards?”.
Instead of the dance floor, he obviously paid more attention to Hartwich's hand movements in the lumbar region.
He doesn't seem to have noticed much of the performance on the floor and only awards a modest 4 points.
Swarovski is also shocked.
It's Love Week.
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The Rote Zora from Austria finds comforting words: "That was strict from Llambi, but you can also collect 20 points in the jury team dances".
Now you might be thinking, "Collecting, what does that mean?" Very simple.
Points are like asparagus: they need to be collected at the right time.
Auma Obama and Andrzej Cibis
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Simon Zachenhuber and Patricija Belousova have completely different problems. Simon has to learn to collect the sexiness in his boxer body. When RTL told the profitable ex-Miss Lithuania that she would dance with a boxer this year, she was hoping for a cute puppy. What she got: a middleweight with a stiff hips. This is particularly problematic with the salsa that is on the program just in time for Love Week, as Patricija knows: “Salsa, you can feel your body there. The hip is alive ”.
The hip is alive.
Except for Simon, because she has to be reanimated first.
So Patricija tries in her distress with emotion: “Feel my body!” A sentence like the memoir by Rocco Siffredi or a song by Helene Fischer.
Breathless through the ring.
But not much use.
Initially, Simon remains as salsa-loving as Ulli Potofski.
Somewhere in the background you think you can hear Peter Schilling singing:
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Alarm signal, Simon's sex appeal is stuck.
Can he be hotter than you know him?
Alarm signal, Patricija trembles.
The air vibrates, the hip is alive!
Simon Zachenhuber and Patricija Belousova
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Simon-Massimo Zachenhuber-Sinató tears his shirt off his body spectacularly at the end of the salsa in order to compensate for his supposed hip stiffness, which incidentally goes under the technical term “Jörg Drägeritis” in “Let's Dance”. Of course, that gives "sex points" from six-pack connoisseur Jorge González.
While Llambi quickly instigates a Twitter feud with the feminism bubble on the Internet (“There's nothing wrong with the little doll Patricija”), Victoria Swarovski already has a high temperature after Simon's shirt has been lost and gallantly asks (zwinky-zwonky): “How does it look because your dream woman out? ”What that has to do with dancing will remain her secret.
On the other hand: It's Love Week.
So why not
Boxing slut Simon reacts charmingly and tells the nation: “It's not about looks, it's more about character, it should be sporty”.
Good character and sporty - so it's not Prince Marcus von Anhalt.
First-date atmosphere on the show
By the way: On the occasion of Love Week there is a so-called cold opening this week.
In a cozy first-date atmosphere, the dance couples confess what they like best about each other.
Quasi “Love Island” for candidates who can speak.
And some dance too.
Valentina Pahde (single) uses her chance and confesses to Valentin Lusin (married to Renata Lusin) that he has “beautiful eyes, but also a great ass”.
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Unfortunately Mickie Krause left last week.
He could have turned this sentence into a Bierkönig classic for the next hit season on Mallorca.
So around the year 2028, if the vaccination rate continues like this here.
And what else was going on?
Fortunately, Pahde is not a politician.
Although - I cannot imagine that things would be fundamentally worse if she were the Minister of Health, for example.
Or Minister of Transport.
Or Minister of Agriculture.
But no, she is an actress and plays the “Sunny Richter” in the RTL gold donkey “Gutes Tanzen, Bad Tanzen” - and again scores 30 points for “Let's Dance”.
In just under three minutes, that's a whopping 17 points more than Schalke 04 since August.
Right now, at the moment I write these lines, it is 9:06 pm on Friday evening and “Let's Dance” will continue for more than two hours.
But I still lean out of the window.
In times of curfews in Hamburg you can't do much else anyway: Valentina won't be leaving today.
Valentina Pahde and Valentin Lusin
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Unfortunately, you can't be so sure about Lola Weippert, who had to shake last week and, alongside professional partner Christian Polanc, is slowly reaching her limits.
Philanthropist Joachim Llambi would of course like to support this and reveals an insider trick from dance anatomy: “The arms have to come out of your body more”.
Of course, that's 100 percent true.
In dancing, as in some other sports, it is always bad if the arms cannot come out of the body.
On the other hand, Ilse DeLange is without a fight one round further.
Incapacitated shortly before the start of the show with a foot injury, she may not be voted out (these are the rules of "Let's Dance").
DeLange himself is disappointed at not being able to dance: “Everything is fine from the foot up”.
Funny, with many professional footballers it's exactly the other way around.
Rúrik Gíslason is not injured.
Correspondingly confidently, he corrects his 22-point low from the previous week with Renata Lusin with earned 30 points.
Obviously he is under the strong influence of alcohol and drugs, because Dr.
Jorge González diagnosed: "Your internal organs danced".
Organ limbo at Rúrik, hairstyle skills at Motsi Mabuse.
The only woman in the jury who was surprisingly covered for Love Week escapes into role clichés and talks about hair coloring: “I'm looking forward to your approach”.
Nicolas Puschmann (r) and Vadim Garbuzov
Source: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
Things are not quite as successful as last week for Nicolas Puschmann and Vadim Garbuzov. Nevertheless, they get ahead safely. Before that, there is the annual jury team challenge. The three jury members practice a group performance with some of the candidates and compete against each other. The most entertaining thing this year is the jurors' catfight between Llambi and González, who only give each other a weak seven points. Perhaps Jorge González, whose countless performance art outfits from nine years as a juror will hopefully soon have his own Jorge Fashion Museum, just had to listen to Joachim Llambi sing along loudly during the performance of his group. Of course, there are deductions in the B grade. "B" stands for "baritone".
Almost traditionally, at the end of the decision, Jan Hofer is shivering in a red light. After he was able to prevail against Mickie Krause, Erol Sander, Kai Ebel, Kim Riekenberg, Senna Gammour and Vanessa Neigert in the jump-off of the worst points in the past few weeks, he fails in show seven because of Lola. The big highlight of every season, the spectacular Discofox marathon, will take place next week without Jan Hofer and Christina Luft. That's a shame, because Hofer has developed into something like the “Let's Dance” mascot over the past few months. A small consolation remains: RTL made Jan den Hofer and offered some other TV formats. So it will stay on our TV screen. And I'll be back next week too. Exactly at this point with the scientific specialist analysis to show eight!See you.
Tanzmarie with jury member Motsi Mabuse
Source: 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. 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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