Whether family planning with her mail order heir friend Frank Otto (66), who is 40 years older than her, backstage secrets from her time on “Germany’s Next Top Model” or settling scores with her ex-fiancé, the convicted Hells Angels rocker ex Timur A .: Nathalie Volk wrote about it in her recently published biography “In my own words. A day without lies” (AK Networking & Verlag) is written with a lot of frustration from the soul, it seems. In any case, the 26-year-old doesn’t necessarily treat some of her fellow human beings squeamishly.
“With his smile and blonde curls, he shines like he’s a nice grandpa”
And according to her own statement, this is mainly due to the fact that Nathalie “couldn’t trust anyone in the industry”. Even the people who appeared “decent, educated and friendly” to the outside world had “deeply disappointed” her. Because: “These people had two faces.” For Nathalie, who calls herself Miranda diGrande, these people with “two faces” apparently also include “Wetten, dass…” legend Thomas Gottschalk (73). Although she doesn’t mention him by name in the book, the description of him leaves no room for further interpretation: “Everyone knows him, he made the model mother famous, who herself has two faces, he, the nation’s darling. Now he’s doing it Advertising for gummy bears and beams with his smile and blonde curls as if he were the nice grandpa.”
Nathalie Volk about Thomas Gottschalk: “He tried to make me look ridiculous in front of an audience of millions”
To support her statement that Thomas Gottschalk appears completely different behind the camera than in front of it, Nathalie describes an encounter with him. The preliminary conversation for a TV interview with him went very well, but when the cameras were on, she felt “bombarded”. The moderator did not stick to the previously agreed questions. “Instead, he tried to make me look ridiculous in front of an audience of millions, which worked. There was a lot of laughter and applause in the audience.”
After the interview, they met again backstage: “Now he had that mild look again and then he took my hand. He approached it and kissed it gently. At that moment I was just disgusted, which real man intentionally hurts one Ms. He knowingly wanted to hurt a nineteen-year-old girl in front of an audience of millions and knew it was simply immoral and kissed my hand as an apology.”
Thomas Gottschalk usually reacts unimpressed to criticism
Entertainer Thomas Gottschalk shouldn’t be too hard hit by lines like these. Even after the bitter criticism of the “Wetten, dass…?” show last year, he reacted calmly to criticism of himself: “There is no reason to justify yourself.” And about the journalists who, in his view, would sit on their sofas in a disgruntled manner and google his clothes, he said: “If it were up to them, I would have said goodbye to my job in tears thirty years ago.”