“2022! People
Thomas Gottschalk fights with sick Sarah Connor
Know each other from many joint TV productions: Thomas Gottschalk and Sarah Connor.
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Dispute between Thomas Gottschalk and Sarah Connor. After canceling the RTL review, the moderator made a nasty comment.
Funny aside or nasty saying below the belt? Moderator Thomas Gottschalk (72) drew the anger of singer Sarah Connor (42) on Instagram with a sentence on live TV. What happened? Connor had to cancel her planned appearance on the RTL review “2022! People, Pictures Emotions” with Gottschalk and ex-minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (51) at short notice due to illness.
In the studio, however, she was briefly connected by phone and reported there in a snuffled voice that she had caught a “bad cold”. “I’m sorry I can’t be there, I would have loved to come.” Connor also gave via Instagram story announced her illness and wrote there: “Unfortunately, there was nothing to do with singing today. Had to cancel the RTL annual review with a heavy heart. But look from the bed.”
Thomas Gottschalk took this refusal as an opportunity for a rough joke. After hearing about Connor’s cancellation, he said to his employees: “It was a shitty year, but there is also good news: Sarah Connor canceled.” Connor didn’t let this tip sit for long and also immediately countered via Instagram: “Ok, what was that just now?” In English she wrote: “Everything happens for a reason.”
The hashtags #oldwhitemen, #rtlihrhabtnochvielzulernen and #mussichmirnichtfallen and gave a clear message to her almost 700,000 followers: She didn’t like the Gottschalk saying at all. Gottschalk and Connor actually know each other from many joint appearances. So Connor has sat down on the “Wetten, dass…?” sofa next to Gottschalk several times and even serenaded him on the occasion of his birthday show “Herbstblond” on his 65th day of honor.
Those were the highlights of the show
In addition to the Connor scandal, numerous people who had shaped the past year appeared on the show, which Günther Jauch (66) had ceded to Gottschalk and zu Guttenberg after many years. Among them was eight-year-old Amalia, who moved millions of people around the world with her interpretation of “Frozen” from a bunker in Ukraine. She sang the song “Let it go” live in the studio and provided the most emotional moment of the show.
Other guests were on site or connected: Kiev Mayor Vitali Klischko, Finance Minister Christian Lindner, war reporter Paul Ronzheimer, the actors Antonia Riët and Wotan Wilke Möhring, lottery winner Chico, the soccer players Lena Oberdorf and Alexandra Popp and the singer Marius Müller -Westernhagen. Gottschalk and zu Guttenberg shared the topics among themselves and took turns presenting their guests.