Three long hours, weird guys and a swinging run – then it’s finally clear who will win the race in the final of “Germany’s Next Top Model” 2023. About an evening full of surprises and a winner that nobody really expected.
In the end it looked like Gottschalk, sorry, on the sofa: Markus Schenkenberg, Jean Paul Gaultier and the Scorpions. Hard Rock Hallelujah! Bet that Tommy was at home in front of the TV making notes for the next show?
With Olivia, Somajia, Nicole, Vivien and Selma, five candidates could hope for the title, it should be an evening of surprises, and that doesn’t mean that the Scorpions would play neither one nor two, but three songs, but the series after.
Heidi Klum somewhere between early Verona and dog whistle
At the start there was a crazy-wig ballet with Madonna bras and rococo aprons, Heidi Klum tried a lower voice, after all, she is now “half a century” old, so you don’t have to squeak like that anymore. All just for fun, of course, a joke, folks, a little later the helium content was right again, the voice back to the pitch between Verona and dog whistle. Matching the squeaky outfit, a mix of stocking curtains, swimsuit and a limited edition Pril flowers made of rhinestones.
The first star guest Jean Paul Gaultier, the legendary fashion czar in his typical striped shirt, translated synchronously on the red sofa, his way of not answering questions about the lack of diversity as a matter of principle, almost an art form in its own right. “How To Do That” was the title of one of his hits – yes, the man also sang once – and indeed: one would really like to know how he manages it so elegantly.
“Germany’s next top model” means going backwards
In the first challenge, you went directly to the predetermined breaking point, a so-called “reverse walk” was announced, run backwards, play forwards, and there was Loreen and her ESC winning title “Tattoo”, in a studio setting, as if Bob Ross had designed the Federal Garden Show. It’s a miracle that no one did a sit-down bulette, but the women had been training for a week. Go backwards for a week – what’s next? sack race? egg running? Eating a bar of chocolate with mittens on? Or this game where you first drink a pint to Ex, then do ten laps with your forehead on the broomstick and run into the wall? The fact remains: the model life is one of the hardest.
Nicole had the same, at least with “GNTM”, behind her, she had to be the first to pull the sails, at least she could watch the next guest from a safe distance. “Star choreographer” Majnoon had his mother and a guy with a Borussia Dortmund wig in tow in tow, had even longer nails than Loreen and reported that he still lives in his children’s room, in short an absolute mood cannon. And this bit first! Change on stage, or something like that was popular with him, changing clothes on stage, a superb move when Vivien falls the crown off her head and shoots it off the stage with a casual right-footed shot. That’s how football works.
On the catwalk was Sense for Selma
And so it went on: In the next expulsion Selma was suddenly caught. Quite a few of them must have been on the list, in the course of the season the hairdresser who had been completely overhauled landed one tasty advertising deal after the other. But the truth is on the walk, on the catwalk, and there was Sense now. Of course, Heidi Klum knew how to comfort: “You make your career with or without me!” Even. Drum.
Technically similarly well positioned in Pisa, daughter Leni did some backstage interviews, from time to time long-escaped people scurried through the picture, were allowed to regret once again, close to tears, how wrong they had behaved in front of the camera. Oh, oh, oh. For Tracy there was a happy ending, or better, a happy new beginning, the one who dropped out voluntarily immediately lamented a wild card for the coming season.
Hoping for a bit of advertising, uh, breathing space, in between
Then it got wild musically, first the Grammy-winning Kim Petras came along, then the indestructible Scorpions showed where the bartel still gets the mosh even after 50 years. Klaus Meine and Co. performed three songs at once, “Rock Believer”, “Rock You Like A Hurricane” and “Send Me An Angel”. be chatted little on the couch.
In between, the audience’s nerves were really strained again and that doesn’t mean the commercial block frequency. Star guest Jennifer Lawrence presented her new film, after which the models had to act out a scene from it together with Marcus Schenkenberg. Where’s the advertising when you need it most?
Final 2023
“Germany’s Next Top Model”: That’s what the winners of previous seasons do
At some point, Thomas Hayo, a deserving warrior from the “GNTM” history, finally appeared. It was just a coincidence that the camera caught Tom Kaulitz in the stands during the full-bodied Hayo-Heidi reunion clinch. No coincidence, but the final decision was a real surprise.
First, a visibly annoyed Olivia said goodbye as third-placed, in the final duel Somajia retained the silver medal, victory was won by an overjoyed Vivien. It was a bit apparent that Germany’s next top model-to-be had presented herself in relaxed top form time and time again on this long evening. In this sense: Congratulations. Viva Vivien. Or to say it with Marielena: Always smear it with butter.