By Ina Michaelis-Ugwonno
When two friends meet to chat…
Actress Simone Thomalla (57) chats freely with Verona Pooth (54) – and gives Günther Jauch (66) a basket!
For Verona’s talk show “ More than talking(MagentaTV) met the two women in the Renaissance Theater in Berlin-Charlottenburgspoke there about Simone’s life, her preferences for men and daughter Sophia (33).
Verona Pooth remembered: “We once met at the airport. I was too ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ been invited and you burst out laughing: ‘For God’s sake, I would never go there’.”
Right, agreed Simone Thomalla.
“I wouldn’t either! The Jauch could come on all fours. I would never go there.”
Quiz master Günther Jauch on “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Photo: dpa picture alliance
Why is Thomalla so rigorously rebuffing Jauch and his famous WWM quiz show and not wanting to jump on his famous guessing chair?
“I think everyone knows that you’re the smartest person in the world on the sofa at home, that you know everything there,” explains Simone. “But I also know that you can really black out under pressure. And then I no longer know whether the earth revolves around the sun or vice versa.”
Even if her manager laughs to death, “because she knows for sure that if I do something like that, I might even win…”, Simone Thomalla doesn’t dare. “By Jauch, I have respect for that.”
While she rebuffed Günther Jauch, she just said yes to another entertainer: Simone Thomalla wants to sail on the “dream ship” with Florian Silbereisen (41) soon.
“Yes, I’m going there for the first time,” revealed the actress. “When I sat in front of the telly at Christmas and watched ‘Traumschiff’, I thought: Now it’s time, now you have to go there yourself.”