He doesn’t rule it out 100 percent, but he jokes about the topic: Hape Kerkeling is often asked whether he would like to return as a show entertainer. This is his answer.
Hape Kerkeling (59), bestselling author and legendary TV entertainer, has all but ruled out a TV comeback with regular shows à la Stefan Raab. In the Friday evening TV talk show “3 nach 9” on Radio Bremen (where Kerkeling once began his TV career), the comedian said in reference to Raab’s appearance with Regina Halmich on Saturday last week: “Well, I’m certainly not going to punch a retired athlete in the face. I’m not doing that.”
Kerkeling continued, laughing: “I don’t plan to, but I had a nightmare three days ago that I was hosting a Saturday night show with Heidi Klum.” Grinning, he sent “best wishes” into the camera and then, in response to Giovanni di Lorenzo’s question as to whether he might be playing Raab, who is now returning to RTL after almost ten years of abstinence from hosting, he said: “Who knows.”
New book by Kerkeling
First of all, his new book “Give me some time” is being published in the next few days. In it, Kerkeling, who comes from Recklinghausen, does genealogical research and says, for example, that he could be a great-grandson of the English King Edward VII (1841-1910).
Kerkeling told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” about this headline-grabbing thesis: “Of course I was aware of the fact that people would think: OK, now he’s crazy. Nightingale, I hear you stomping. It’s completely legitimate that question marks arise.” He was also “not completely free of these question marks.” At some point, however, he decided to write it down.
Kerkeling, who has not done any shows in recent years but has written books or made documentaries and fictional series, was a big sketch and TV star in the 80s and 90s. In the new book, the story of the royal origins is only a small passage, Kerkeling emphasized both in the talk show and in the SZ interview.
For example, it is also about the AIDS death of his beloved Amsterdam friend Duncan, who died of AIDS after a two-year relationship. There is a trauma that needs to be worked through, Kerkeling told the “Süddeutsche”, “which is the trauma of very many people”. “Because millions of people have died in a very short space of time, especially in the gay scene. Actually, it is only today that I dare to realize what a drama it was – that it had the dimensions of a major war.”
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Source: Stern
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