From BZ/dpa
The British world star Robbie Williams (48) is now more relaxed on the “Wetten dass ..?” couch.
“I’ve done this a number of times. I now understand what is expected of me, what is necessary,” Williams told the German Press Agency in Hamburg. His first appearance on Thomas Gottschalk’s Saturday evening show about 20 years ago, on the other hand, was rather scary.
“It felt very, very unusual because every interview I’d ever given on TV was three minutes long.” But with “Wetten dass ..?” he was suddenly on live TV for several hours. “I had never experienced that before. And there is a certain vulnerability that comes with being on live TV for a long period of time with a translator in your ear.”
In the meantime he has been a guest of the show many times and knows that this is not unusual. “I’m fine with it.” That’s why he doesn’t have a backup plan to be able to disappear early. “It would be interesting if I pretended to do a Covid test live on air. … Oh, I have to go,” he joked in the dpa interview.
After the big “Wetten dass..?” revival a year ago, the show is going into the next round this Saturday (8:15 p.m., ZDF) in Friedrichshafen. In addition to Williams, prominent guests include Hollywood star John Malkovich, actress Veronica Ferres and tennis player Alexander Zverev.