Nico Santos, 28, pop singer (“Play With Fire”, “Better”), had little success on talent shows as a teenager. “As a 19-year-old I applied to such a show, but unfortunately I didn’t get very far,” Santos told the German press agency. Nevertheless, he never had a plan B if he hadn’t made it professionally in the music industry. Today Santos is a coach in the talent show “The Voice of Germany”.
Francis, 84, Pope, is the “Sexist Man Alive 2021”, like the feminist magazine Emma names the allegedly “most misogynistic man of the year” (referring to the US magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”) People). Although Francis has “some positive traits”, the theologian is “head of an apartheid system in which women are second-class people,” the magazine criticizes in its current issue. “Because of their biological sex alone, they are servants of pious masters and scrub the church floors.” Before the Pope, the negative price went to FDP boss Christian Lindner (2020) for indecency in a speech and the rapper Kollegah (2019) for misogynistic texts.
Tim Mälzer, 50, German TV chef, is a big pasta fan. He especially likes Cacio e Pepe (cheese and pepper), Aglio e Olio (garlic and oil) and Bolognese. “If someone can make good pasta, it cannot be explained with a recipe, it is pure magic,” Mälzer told the German press agency on “World Pasta Day”. If properly prepared, pasta dishes would represent “love and soul”.
Kerstin Beck, 43, from Bottrop, has set up a horror maze with her husband David in a former hairdressing salon and has thus fulfilled a dream. In order to fill the business, which had been vacant for two years, with life again, she built a 2.10-meter-tall werewolf out of water pipes, connectors and an old fur coat. The couple installed various sound and animation effects for this purpose. Visitors pay according to the Bottrop Newspaper no entry fee, but donations are welcome.