2024-05-20 21:56:11
37 years in the past, Thomas Gottschalk broke right into a sweat throughout Cher’s revealing efficiency. Immediately the world-famous singer celebrates her 78th birthday.
Final 12 months, Thomas Gottschalk gave his “Wetten,dass..?” farewell efficiency. There was a particular reunion: Celebrity Cher did the honors. That introduced again reminiscences of a legendary second on the ZDF present below Gottschalk’s aegis – and there have been a variety of them since he took workplace in 1987.
Whether or not it was satirist Bernd Fritz’s pretend crayon lollipop guess, the legendary verbal sofa check of energy between Götz George and Thomas Gottschalk or the “Lichtgestalten” slut speak with Jenny Elvers and Ariane Sommer: there has at all times been somebody on and in entrance of Germany’s most well-known tv couch since Gottschalk’s first look in September 1987 one thing happening.
One of many largest “Wetten, dass?” occasions below the moderation path of Thomas Gottschalk occurred six weeks after he took workplace. Along with Peter Maffay, Bonnie Tyler and Mike Oldfield, US famous person Cher was a visitor on the time. Throughout rehearsals within the afternoon, the present producer on the time, Holm Dressler, was already standing in entrance of the stage, bathed in sweat. The singer, who celebrates her 78th birthday on Could twentieth, wore a glittery sheen of nothing, solely very sparsely lined by a wide-open leather-based jacket.
This made not solely the producer but in addition these accountable for the station sweat. An alternate outfit was important for the recording within the night, as Brigitte Nielsen, who was additionally very flippantly dressed, had already been invited to the present. Two world stars in a curve-hugging or clear look: the leisure equipment within the background, which was nonetheless moderately conservative on the time, discovered it troublesome and troublesome to beat their shadow.
However Cher did not let anybody speak to her at first. The creator of world hits like “Bang Bang”, “Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves” and “Half-Breed” actually needed to carry out her present single “I Discovered Somebody” within the look she introduced along with her. There have been discussions backstage for hours earlier than Cher and people accountable for “Wetten, dass?” agreed on a compromise that each events may in the end stay with.
As an alternative of simply sporting a thong, Cher placed on a black miniskirt. Even Thomas Gottschalk, who isn’t precisely identified for his matches of embarrassment, needed to take a deep breath for a second.
“I believe after this present I am going to go for a remedy. The bets are killing me and the costumes are killing me!” he mentioned after Cher’s efficiency.