Actor and author Samuel Koch wore a Phoenix costume for “The Masked Singer”. picture: prosieben / willi weber
It’s out: Samuel Koch was in a Phoenix costume for “The Masked Singer”. With the songs “Wonderful World” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” he stirred the guessing team and the audience, but in the end lost to his competitors and therefore had to take off his mask. With over 5000 individual artificial feathers, the Phoenix costume was one of the most elaborate of the season.
At first it was considered to build a barrel construction into the costume, but that would have been “nasty”, like the 34-year-old of the “image“tells. Because in this case,” really no one “would have come across him.
Koch was “happy to be with ‘The Masked Singer'”
During his time with “The Masked Singer” he had to come up with excuses for those around him and the audience so that he would not be suspected of being under the costume. For example, he said on social media: “I’m not insane and would take the risk in a live show to sing on a stage with edges and restricted vision.” He goes on to say that “taking risks in live shows is not his core competence”.
He is playing on his dramatic appearance on “Wetten, dass ..?” at. There he had made a bet in 2010 that he could jump over cars with special springs. He had a serious fall while trying, in front of the cameras, the broadcast was interrupted.
Paralyzed since the accident on “Wetten, dass ..?” Broadcast
Samuel Koch has been paralyzed from the neck down since the accident on the ZDF show. The “Wetten, dass ..?” Moderators Thomas Gottschalk and Michelle Hunziker stopped broadcasting the following year, also because there was “a shadow” over the otherwise happy Saturday evening show.
Coincidentally, the special anniversary program ran on the same evening as “The Masked Singer”. However, he did not think about that, said Koch. Not even about the fact that as part of “The Masked Singer” he would keep many viewers at ProSieben, who otherwise might also “Wetten, dass ..?” would have looked: “That would be schadenfreude.” And further: “I was more pleased that I was here at ‘The Masked Singer’ and not anywhere else.”
Unusual timing
The two ProSieben faces Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf were guests in the one-time “Wetten, dass ..?” Comeback show on Saturday. In a conversation with the two of them, Gottschalk insisted on teasing their home broadcaster. In relation to the hit show “The Masked Singer”, he joked that “singing critters run around” there, while real ones on the ZDF show Stars occurred.
In retrospect, this sentence seems a bit unfortunate, because at the same time Samuel Koch, whose fate is inseparable “Wetten, dass ..?” connected is, on “The Masked Singer” as Phoenix was exposed. Many Fans on Twitter I noticed that too.
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