Chiara Ferragni, 36, Italian influencer with almost 30 million followers, has found her language again. Her Instagram account was completely silent for 18 days. Now she spoke up again for the first time: a photo in the stories, without a face, but with night-black polish on her nails, a cup in her hand, a friendly Buongiorno and a heart. So not a word about the misleading advertising scandal. Shortly before Christmas, the Italian antitrust authority AGCM imposed a million euro fine on Ferragni for unfair competition. The reason: Ferragni had led her huge community to believe that a large portion of the proceeds from a cake she advertised called “Pink Christmas” (price: nine euros) would go to a children’s cancer ward. In reality, the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin did not receive a single cent, despite selling more than 360,000 cakes. Campaigns for Easter eggs and a doll may have had similar patterns. The issue is now preoccupying some public prosecutors. Now the first corporate customers, on whom the multi-millionaire’s business model is essentially based, are distancing themselves: Coca-Cola announced that it was abandoning a commercial that had already been filmed and was supposed to be broadcast at the end of January for the Sanremo pop festival.
Sven Martinek, 59, actor, enjoys special privileges in the Hamburg hotel where he has been living for a long time with his colleague Ingo Naujoks, 61, during the filming of the ARD evening series “Morden im Norden”. “We have spent more than 1,400 nights there since 2014. The year before last, when they were remodeling the rooms, I was asked whether I would prefer a bathtub or shower in the room,” Martinek told the German Press Agency. “Well, a shower is enough for me – so they installed one.” And Naujoks added: “Another extremely funny situation was when we were both standing in the elevator and the hotel manager came up to us and asked what kind of flooring we wanted.” The request was also granted.
Jew Bellingham, 20, soccer star at Real Madrid, has a heart of gold – and is celebrated for it in Spain. During the Madrid cup game against fourth division club Arandina, which took place on January 6th and in wintry temperatures, he brought his blanket to a freezing ball boy and put it around his shoulders. The ball boy is quoted by Spanish media: That was the best day of his life.