Ann Kathrin Bendixen
She sees “Let’s Dance” as justified
Tearful farewell: Ann-Kathrin Bendixen and Valentin Lusin were eliminated from “Let’s Dance”.
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Ann-Kathrin Bendixen has been eliminated from “Let’s Dance”. The end is “absolutely justified” for the influencer.
Ann-Kathrin Bendixen (24) was in show eight on Friday evening No more “Let’s Dance”. At the end of the show she had to leave the popular RTL show (also on RTL+) dance away. On Saturday the travel influencer, also under the Known under the pseudonym “Monkey on Bike”.spoke up on Instagram and spoke once again about what she thought was a justified end.
“Dancing has never been my strength”
“Good morning friends, what are you doing now, hey, really. Now I’m thrown out of here – absolutely justified, dancing has never been my strength,” greets Bendixen in a story. It’s “madness” that she even made it to show eight of the current season. “But I improved and it was a great time and a nice experience,” she sums up.
She already sensed that Bendixen wouldn’t make it much further. “I knew I was flying all week,” she says. According to the 24-year-old, it would have been “absolutely unjustified to move forward now.” She would have felt bad if another celebrity had been kicked out of the show. Therefore the end is “completely fine”. Although she was “perhaps the worst” on the show, “but I don’t think anyone could have been as fxxxing motivated as I was.” Sometimes she trained until 1:00 a.m. so as not to embarrass herself. She gave “more than everything” – despite a few moments when she was “just exhausted” and actually wanted to give up.
Bendixen struggled with hate comments
Today Bendixen wants to visit her dance partner Valentin and his wife Renata Lusin (36) – and then she’ll go traveling again. She also wanted to thank all of her fans for their support and for getting the influencer this far in the show despite all the hate she received online. It’s “a liberating feeling to know” that this hatred will now stop: “Now there’s nothing to hate anymore, people.”
Bendixen had previously said that she had to read a lot of hateful comments about herself on the Internet as part of the show. In conversation with the broadcaster she explained, visibly upset: “I don’t understand why people write such nasty things. You’re welcome to criticize, […] But this “going out of character” and this “putting it down” affects them. Also the station referred to Instagram as part of an episode of the program Position: “Vadim said it so beautifully and correctly: ‘Let’s Dance’ is an entertainment show! Hate has no place here. Ann-Kathrin, we think you’re great and we’re proud of the journey what you’ve done with us up to this point.”