HWelcome to the pro-seminar “Diversity” with LGBTQ lecturer Heidi Klum. The Woke representative from ProSieben, who works part-time as a model and TV presenter, has washed with all perfumes after 17 years with GNTM. She teases the fourth week of the popular photo bingo documentary with a cold opener that will make even those who hate drama salivate: a girl will go voluntarily, a girl will cry bitterly and in the end there will still be a second candidate kicked out. The anticipation is suddenly catapulted to completely new heights. Only the model students are catapulted even higher. A crane throws them out of a car 20 meters into the air. If you watched this challenge backwards, it would be even more delicate: A surgically precise bungee jump directly onto the passenger seat of a convertible.
But first things first. On a level of euphoria somewhere between winning an Oscar and an ecstasy overdose, the 24 remaining knights of the chattering round stormed the set, as if they could force world peace with exalted anticipation. In addition to the crane, which can be seen from afar, the candidates quickly discover other details with the presence of mind: “There is also a beautiful vintage car”. For a moment you think: Oh, then today is the episode in which Wolfgang Joop acts as a guest judge? But the all-clear to everyone who would like to explain to the crumpled-comfortable fashion Methuselah from Potsdam after his sleazy interview in “Spiegel” what cancel culture means: It’s a real vintage car. After all, we are also the motherland of the car and not the motherland of encroaching gentlemen’s jokes. And that despite leg grab old master Thomas Gottschalk.
After the first near-death panic in the face of a terrifying slingshot crane, Relay Noëlla catches up the quickest after a short risk assessment and calms down her competition colleagues who are suddenly collectively afraid of heights: “What should go wrong? They don’t want me to die on TV.” Which she is absolutely right about. On German television, it is still primarily the brain cells of the viewers who have to die.
High on the red wagon
The reverse bungee jumping amusement park is even coming, Challenge luminary Klum can’t take that away, with a supporting program that is, as always, confusingly confusing: the candidates act as the stars of a vintage short film, for which they write their own texts, and then play the scene and then bungee jumping in reverse. Not necessarily a job like you would expect in the real model business. If you’re studying mathematics to become a teacher, the professor doesn’t suddenly come into the lecture hall and announce: “Well, for today’s exam everyone has to bake a Christmas stollen in 60 seconds out of a pound of play dough, three marbles and a bucket of liquid manure and do it Rub liverwurst while hopping on one leg.”
The action shoot with height components, which is traditionally associated with a large number of fits of anxiety, was surprisingly completed this year without crying. We only lament in the evening when Lenara is allowed to skype with her boyfriend. For a moment, light honey vibes blow through the Greek night when Lenara, plagued by homesickness, sobs: “I miss you so much, I’m almost dying” and her life companion replies: “I’m sorry.” Her chosen one is obviously moving on the empathy -Level of a shoe box. Probably one of those candidates who respond with “thank you” to an “I love you!”
Lenara also seems to suspect that there is an imbalance between her and her boyfriend in terms of the level of longing. However, she skillfully disguises her decision to voluntarily leave the competition as an escape from the intrigues of her competitors: “Some want to win here by any means necessary. I can’t take it anymore.” Heidi immediately calls her to deep talk in the romantic summer garden of a Mykonian inn. But Lenara remains stable: “The group dynamics have gone down, this energy is pulling me down.” Heidi, who had been upset about expressions like “bitch” while shooting the short film the day before, briefly slipped into the gutter language herself from: “Now you want to go because someone is saying shitty things?” Shitty things, or as we say in the fashion industry: Fashion Week Berlin. Heidi does not succeed in the turnaround, Lenara leaves. Model tamer Klum only manages to squeeze the name of the “shit things” narrator out of her: Noëlla.
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