ESC presenter Hazel Brugger: “Nobody looks at the ESC because of the moderation”

As soon as the sixth season of “LOL: Last One Laughing” (since 2021 at Prime Video) is published, Hazel Brugger (31) is the next highlight: Together with Michelle Hunziker (48) and Sandra Studer (56) she is moderating this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. How much she is looking forward to this task and what role her family plays in this eventful time, she reveals in an interview with Spot on News.

Hazel Brugger: I think that’s mainly wrong that I can do that. The fact that Switzerland wins this is crazy enough. I was so happy – not only that three of us moderate the final, but also that I can moderate both semi -finals with Sandra Studer. The ESC fans are the most blatant. It’s just crazy, an incredibly intensive, great energy that comes with the ESC universe.

Brugger: I hope to pick up the people who know me so that they recognize me too. Of course, this includes both those who find me good and those who don’t like me. You shouldn’t forget about the whole hustle and bustle: nobody looks at the ESC because of the moderation. If I somehow manage to be a little more than just a AI that leads from Artist A to Artist B, I think I have already done a lot right.

Brugger: The watch parties. The ESC is the only event in which I myself took part in watch parties. Sure, there was sometimes the World Cup, but that’s not really a party. At the ESC you are interested in fates of strangers who have a completely different way of life. It’s just so cool. It is like the entire continent briefly agree that we play “Dungeons & Dragons”. It is a blessing.

Brugger: That was totally good, I just know her in such a total extreme situation – both events are total extreme situations. You have so many things in your head, but you have to suppress your own facial expressions. But I’m totally happy that I have the two by my side and that we get along really, very well.

Brugger: I can speak very well things that everyone notice – mostly it is an advantage, but sometimes also a disadvantage. So if something goes wrong when something is not welcome or if there are strange reactions that you would not have scripted, I can show very well shortly afterwards, recognize it and then say: “Now we will continue with the show, because that’s not the point now.” You have to do that because it is important that you try to pick up everyone with such a large number of spectators. You can not only make a show for the absolute insiders, but you can also not only make a show for people who have never heard of the ESC. I think I can bring together different knowledge of the knowledge. I always try to bring people together.

Brugger: I am very lucky that I work with my husband. If we didn’t do that, we would see ourselves very, very rarely. The nice thing is that my children are of that age that they can be there – even if they don’t understand all yet. At the same time, they are so small that they are not bound to any structures like school holidays. As a family, we have the maximum flexibility. That is why, as a family, we agreed that the next few months will be a crazy time. After that, it is good again.

Brugger: What many people are always looking for in show business is a contrast or something that you get back down – and that is the family in both the good and bad. You come from the stage and take the child in your arm and it vomits on the T -shirt – in the bad. But in good things, of course, the direct environment always shows you what is really important in life. This helps not to artificially inflate such a big event as the Eurovision Song Contest. The show, the competition, the event is of course totally important, but I myself shouldn’t take myself so important.