Wayne Carpendale
Guest presenter on the talk show “Riverboat”
Wayne Carpendale is looking forward to his new role.
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Wayne Carpendale performs alongside Kim Fisher on the Riverboat talk show. “It’s a dream of mine,” he said happily in the interview.
For Wayne Carpendale (44) a dream will come true on Friday evening. As a guest presenter alongside Kim Fisher (52), he is allowed to lead the popular MDR talk show “Riverboat” (7.5., 10 p.m.). “I’m looking forward to great colleagues with whom I can chat all evening. So this will be kind of a kind of vacation from lockdown,” enthuses the presenter and actor in an interview with the news agency spot on news and looks back on his past months in the Pandemic with wife Annemarie (43) and son Mads back.
How nervous are you in front of your guest presenter on the show “Riverboat”?
Wayne Carpendale: Kind of. You don’t host one of the big German talk shows every day, and that’s a dream of mine. I’m looking forward to the great Kim Fisher by my side and meet great colleagues with whom I can chat all evening. So this is going to be a kind of vacation from lockdown.
It’s been a while since we saw you as a presenter on TV, did you miss it?
Carpendale: No, the variety is what makes my job so exciting. In the last few months I have moderated the TV garden, shot a Christmas film for KiKa, dubbed an animation film and was on a lonely island for ZDF as a cook – and now I’m looking forward to the great challenge, sometimes such a great one Host talk show like “Riverboat”.
Would you like to moderate again in doubles with your wife Annemarie?
Carpendale: If the content is right, always. But only to moderate together, we see each other often enough privately. (laughs)
Many marriages are put to the test during Corona, how do you as a couple get through the pandemic?
Carpendale: I’m actually quite happy with our crisis mode. But it must also be said that even before the pandemic, we always lived our relationship very intensively.
How have you spent the past few months?
Carpendale: Let me put it this way: We had planned a lot … mucking out, cleaning up, tax returns. But we didn’t manage any of it. Still, there was always something going on professionally. And we are currently trying to build a house – that in combination with a two-year-old, it’s really never boring. But we really miss the evening with friends, the carefree meeting with the family.
How do you explain the current situation to your son Mads?
Carpendale: He’s turning three now. It doesn’t change that much for him. Mama and Dada are at home a lot. We are often outside, in the playground, in the zoo, in the animal park. The day care center wasn’t always closed. I think we have to explain to him sooner when everything starts again and Mom and Dada are gone for weeks at a time … or go out to party in the evening.
The Corona crisis is particularly hard on artists. How do you and your wife deal with the crisis professionally?
Carpendale: We were very lucky, there was always something going on with us. But I really do know some artists who have got into existential hardship as a result of the situation. It was good and right to first concentrate on the directly system-relevant industries, but then we shouldn’t forget our industry either. Because without TV, shows and films, streaming and one or the other podcast, i.e. without entertainment, many people would have experienced an even harder lockdown. And we all miss concerts, theater and festivals, right? But if we don’t finally support these artists and the people who work behind the scenes, all of this will no longer exist.