Heidi Klum and Leni pose half-naked in front of the camera, Oliver Pocher has gone too far and Nazan Eckes is single again. Vip Vip, Hooray! Here are the excitement and highlights from the week of stars and starlets.
Not a day goes by without the internet boiling up because of a celebrity, a shitstorm raging or people expressing their displeasure. At the top of the excitement list this week: Heidi Klum and her daughter Leni. Can mom and daughter present themselves half-naked or is that going too far? The model has always liked to provoke. The 49-year-old usually doesn’t give a damn about what people say or write about her, but she has long since deactivated the comment function on her Instagram account.
Because the reactions to the joint campaign with daughter Leni for the Italian lingerie brand “Intimissimi” are not only positive. Some find the action “questionable” and “tasteless”, even “disturbing”, some believe that a mother is sexualizing her own daughter. Beautiful, aesthetic photos of women in underwear: Hardly anyone is bothered by that, but when the women are mother and daughter, bad criticism often rains down. The actress Claudelle Deckert can also sing a song about it, who even went one step further than Heidi and Leni and together with her daughter Romy last year for “Playboy”.
“We are mother and daughter, but we have a super good and friendly relationship,” said the then 47-year-old about the hot shots with her now 24-year-old daughter. “You can show what you’re made of, who you are, that you’re a strong woman and personality and not some little mouse. It’s empowering women in a way that appeals to men.” Just like in the case of Heidi and Leni, the hot pictures show how much fun the two had in front of the camera.
Oliver Pocher also had trouble online this week. Rightly so, according to many. The comedian, who triggered a hype during the corona pandemic with his screen control on Instagram, is now coming under increasing criticism. Many viewers increasingly perceive his often humorous assessments of the world of influencers as bashing. Pocher, it is often said, acts as a moral authority. It is not his place to judge others. He also accepts that the influencers he criticizes are thrown to the mob. Now the Ulknudel unleashed a storm of indignation with a repost!
Alienated in one picture, but still recognizable: the influencer and author Anna Adamyan. The former “Germany’s next top model” candidate is followed by more than half a million people on Instagram. Adamyan, also known as Anna Wilken, has been campaigning for more education about endometriosis for years. The chronic disease of the uterine lining is often accompanied by an unfulfilled desire to have children. Adamyan has written a book about her struggle and desire to become a mother.
The model recently had the flu and after recovering wrote a post that featured a discount code. It was an advertisement for a jewelry brand. The whole thing was mistaken with the words: “Slowly but surely uphill”. But Pocher misinterpreted the post. His answer was not long in coming: “If you turn your miscarriage into a discount code, you’ve hit rock bottom…”
A misunderstanding! Because it was about a cold and not a miscarriage. Pocher, himself a father of five children, deleted his story a few hours later. And while Adamyan says: “I would never exploit my loss commercially in this way”, many angry comments poured out about the influencer. “Hate for something I’ve never done.” Mistakes happen. But then one should also have the size to sincerely apologize for it.
A raid took place on the Ballermann singer Melanie Müller, Jasmin Herren does not want to accept that the investigation into Willi Herren’s apartment being dropped, and Nazan Eckes makes many hearts beat faster with the announcement that he is single again. But the pop titan caused a huge stir this week with statements about the federal government’s sanctions against Russia because of the Ukraine war: “If they hadn’t made these sanctions, for example, and you’d sat down sensibly at the table, then people wouldn’t need them now do all this nonsense. Now we have to freeze, now we have to do this and that – it all sucks, from my point of view”. The discussion soon got out of control online. There was even talk of Dieter Bohlen “rushing”.
But when asked by RTL, Bohlen made it clear: “I wish nothing more than for this war of aggression to end, so that the suffering in Ukraine comes to an end and we can all live in peace again. I am absolutely against war. I want that The situation is de-escalating. It is wrong to assume that I have a political direction.”
The best news for many fans from the very beginning was this week: The Backstreet Boys, who are currently on a major European tour, are playing in Berlin on two evenings. The most successful boy band of all time turns many grown-up fans back into teenagers who stand in the front row screaming, adoring their idols like they did in 1999 and loudly belting out every song: “Everybody/Rock your body/Rock your body right/Backstreet’s back, alright”. Until next week!