The “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” candidate death is in full swing. First the comedian fails because of the vegan Steve Jobs, then the flight attendant because of Jupiter. Jauch finally has enough with the pessimist candidate: “Don’t get a crying cramp!”
In the three-million-euro week, Günther Jauch’s luck was apparently used up. In the first regular “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” show on Monday evening, one crash followed the next. The first two candidates were just too confident and went home with Joker. A bundle of nerves of negative energy with “Oh God” despair then got on the moderator’s nerves. The quiet lady from the tax office, on the other hand, was properly celebrated.
Alexander Profant was noticed in the show before the three-million-euro week, among other things, due to his extreme thirst. “Half is missing before the show started,” said Jauch when looking at the comedian and bouncer’s water glass. Unfortunately, the nervous overhang candidate became overconfident at the second question for 64,000 euros.
Profant should nominate a prominent vegan. He excluded Alfred Hitchcock and Helmut Kohl. That left the Apple co-founder and the most famous German fashion designer. “I just don’t trust Steve Jobs,” said Profant. He shot himself at fur lover Karl Lagerfeld of all people and even did without his last joker: “I’m so blatantly sure, I won’t call anyone.”
The Munich was at least granted some luck in misfortune. He had chosen the security variant and “only” dropped to 16,000 euros when asked 64,000 euros. The flight attendant Sebastian Hoos was then caught before the security level. He didn’t really have a clue when asked about 16,000 euros. However, the father of two was certain by means of a process of elimination: there must simply be a phenomenon on Jupiter called a thick green stripe. Somehow he had thought of the rings of the gas giant.
“Without help?” Jauch asked as a precaution, looking at the remaining two jokers. The candidate from Frankfurt am Main stayed with it and fell to 500 euros. The search was for the Great Red Spot. This is a storm that has probably raged on the planet for centuries. With a lack of self-confidence, however, candidate number three was beaten. “Oh God, my heart,” Julia Mazzotta lamented as she sat down in the hot seat. “You don’t always have to say ‘Oh my God’, my name is Jauch,” the moderator tried to lighten the mood. There was no success.
The candidate, who runs a hotel with her husband in Saarlouis, dragged herself cramped from round to round. The fact that she mostly didn’t like the questions didn’t exactly cause sympathy for Jauch. At 16,000 euros, the RTL host was even unusually rough. “Don’t get a crying fit. If you cry, you immediately drop to 500,” he snapped at the candidate. “Mean,” she defended herself. In the end, Mazzotta got up to 16,000 euros and was happy with that.
A real surprise turned out to be in this extra-long episode of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Verena Ziegler from Leverkusen. The quiet employee from the tax office, who advises customers on starting their own business, only got up to 16,000 euros. On the way there, the single mother showed heart and the courage to despair. At 4000 euros she had drawn the first joker, in the next round the telephone joker had to go. He guessed correctly that historians refer to Marcus Aurelius or Hadrian as adoptive emperors rather than godfather emperors. However, the judge wasn’t really sure. Then Ziegler gave himself a jerk – at least half.
“I’ll take the Adoptivkaiser now, it’s really too stupid for me,” announced the tax office employee. But then she pushed her last joker to be on the safe side. The audience confirmed the suspicion of the telephone joker. But already in the next lap, Ziegler actually put everything on one card. Jauch wanted to know what the term “perennial favorite” originally meant: an oven, a cigar, a street lamp, the moon? Ziegler didn’t hesitate. She took the stove. “I’m just playing now. Once in my life,” said the woman from Leverkusen, earning well-deserved applause when Jauch was able to give the all-clear.
Unusually, all five candidates in this edition of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” opted for the security option. So does lawyer Johanna Jaspersen from Berlin. Jauch noticed the last candidate of the evening above all because she first made herself comfortable cross-legged in front of him. “Are you an esoteric teacher?” the moderator suspected. “It makes me taller,” Jaspersen explained her choice of seat. The trainee lawyer at the public prosecutor’s office deals, among other things, with offenses related to Hansa Rostock games. She didn’t have much time to crash. Jaspersen returns next Monday with the €500 question.
(This article was first published on Tuesday, August 09, 2022.)
