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Riccardo Simonetti: Ponytail as “absolute hate hairstyle”
Riccardo Simonetti is a guest on the ARD show “Do you understand fun?” . photo
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During photo shoots, the entertainer also likes to try out unusual things when it comes to hair. But what if it escalates? It’s on TV on Saturday. Before that he talks about absolute no-gos.
Entertainer Riccardo Simonetti says his hair is sacred. “My whole week is planned after washing my hair, and only people with curls will understand that,” he told the German Press Agency. According to the 29-year-old, his hair is a trademark and he has worn it long since school. “I love expressing myself through my hair and experimenting with it, so it’s very important to me to keep it healthy.”
What is not possible: a ponytail. “A ponytail on me is just my absolute hate hairstyle,” Simonetti made clear. “I don’t even wear it when I’m home alone. I just find the hairstyle unsexy on myself and it always makes me feel like a twelve-year-old horse girl.” But it’s only about his hairstyle: “I don’t want to say in general that it shouldn’t look good on others,” he emphasized, adding jokingly: “Not that the ponytail lobby is now against me. “
Guest with Barbara Schöneberger in “Do you understand fun?”
Simonetti’s hair is also a topic in the new edition of “Do you understand fun?”, which shows the first on Saturday (February 11, 8:15 p.m.). The moderator and author falls victim to the hidden camera during an alleged photo shoot – but remains very relaxed.
“I have to say that the reality of such shoots is often even worse,” said Simonetti. “I’ve been doing this for many years, I don’t get out of my skin that quickly, because unfortunately someone on the set is always annoying.” He then tries to concentrate on the result and hides the nuisance. “In this case, I wasn’t that annoyed at all, I was rather speechless at times that this should really be meant seriously.”
With intolerance of any kind, however, the fun stops for him. Hair also plays a role here: “In general, I think that nowadays it’s still a statement when people break with gender conventions,” explained Simonetti, who grew up in Bad Reichenhall and lives in Berlin. A man with long, styled hair or a woman with short hair or, for example, no hair at all often has to justify her decision. “And so homophobia is sometimes mixed with the fact that people simply think that men shouldn’t have long, supposedly feminine hair or even wear make-up.”