Annika Lau
She “couldn’t even go to the bathroom on her own”
Annika and Frederick Lau are parents to three children
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Because of the corona pandemic, presenter Annika Lau was “totally stressed,” as she now tells in a new interview.
At the beginning of June it became known that Annika Lau (42) was returning to “Sat.1 Breakfast TV” to replace Alina Merkau (35), who was on maternity leave. In conversation with the “Bild am Sonntag” Lau now tells how much she was looking forward to returning and how the corona pandemic has affected her in recent months.
The presenter, who has been married to actor Frederick Lau (31) since 2015 and has three children with him, recently had a lot of struggles. The couple was “totally stressed”: “This whole lockdown number overran us all. With children it was even more of a challenge.” She thinks she can speak for all parents in Germany or maybe even worldwide when she says: “It was a real hammer!”
That’s why it’s “so nice” that school has started again: “If you don’t have a break at all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it’s exhausting. I couldn’t even go to the toilet on my own.” Therefore, for her, the return to “breakfast television” is also a kind of escape from everyday life, as she explains with a laugh: “Right, I want to get out of here !! It’s all too exhausting for me.” But she was also “never really gone”, “just in the background”.
Lau had already said goodbye to television
In December 2020 she “mentally said goodbye to the whole television business” and thought that in the future she might only work behind the camera. “A day later, the boss from ‘Breakfast TV’ called and asked me if I would like to come back.” She “didn’t hesitate for a second” with this offer, because she was “not alone” with her children.
Just because the couple is known doesn’t mean that the whole situation is easy for them. “But it really annoys me that people think it’s all so simple. Things are going just as well or badly for us as in other families,” explains Lau. Now her husband is more at home and when he has to turn a project “our nanny is there too and takes care of a few hours”. The moderator made a conscious decision to live with the children and she loves it “as it is”.
The fact that some people think that the lice have “a lot of staff” is “absolute nonsense”. The couple have “a cleaning lady and, if necessary, a nanny”. Her husband also does a lot at home. Lau has become “such a great father. In the beginning he was still very reserved, now he’s great and does wonderful things with the children.” The moderator doesn’t want to leave her cell phone on in emergencies: “To be honest: What’s going to happen? Freddy rocks the store. He can do it. I don’t need to turn my cell phone on.”