After podcast exit

Gottschalk: “Don’t think about giving up!”

Thomas Gottschalk spoke out on Instagram about his podcast exit following the shitstorm surrounding a comment on Maite Kelly.

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The news that Thomas Gottschalk is putting his "Supernasen" podcast with Mike Krüger on ice has made a lot of headlines this week. Now the entertainer has come out with clear words about the end on Instagram. He is "fed up".

After a comment about pop singer Maite Kelly's curves caused quite a stir, Gottschalk announced that he would no longer be recording his podcast "Die Supernasen". The last episode will be broadcast on RTL+ on December 17, RTL also confirmed shortly afterwards. 

Gottschalk is "fed up"
The former "Wetten, dass...?" presenter has now spoken out again on Instagram about his podcast exit. "Yes, it's true, I'm also saying goodbye as a podcaster at the end of the year," he explained.

And Gottschalk also wanted to explain the reasons for this decision once again. "I'm tired of constantly being interpreted by people who want to damage me publicly and being misunderstood by those who simply don't want to understand me," he continued.

However, the 74-year-old does not want his retirement to be seen as him giving in. "But there is a difference between 'giving up' and 'being fed up'. I'm not thinking of giving up and will continue to say what I think loudly and clearly (without claiming to be right), but I really am 'fed up', even though a lot goes into my tines."

Thanks to Mike Krüger
Finally, he thanks his podcast partner: "Thanks to my friend Mike Krüger, who I got closer to in our 'Supernasen' podcast than in our films, but we've also grown older and more mature together."

He also sends his thanks "to all the apostles who have followed us through these turbulent times", Gottschalk concludes with a wink.

Fuss over comments about Maite Kelly
In the latest episode of the podcast, Gottschalk talked about his appearance on Florian Silbereisen's "Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights", which will be shown on TV on November 30, among other things. He remarked rather uncharmingly: "I'll probably have to push Maite Kelly aside so that people can see me."

Maite Kelly was the target of Gottschalk's mockery. The singer then found clear words.

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A gag at the expense of the pop singer's curves, which had caused a lot of criticism. Gottschalk then qualified that the joke was neither "misogynistic" nor "malicious", but it was "undoubtedly" a gag "at Maite's expense".

"Only deserves my pity"
Maite Kelly herself found clear words for Gottschalk's verbal derailment: "Even as a child, I was smart enough to know that people who resort to such platitudes only deserve my pity. That's why they never got my respect back then either." 

She got "enough self-love" from her father "that jokes at the expense of my character were the least itchy thing in my life. But not every girl is lucky enough to have a dad like that. That's why such degrading sentences, actions or gestures are unacceptable. And as adults, we have a duty to protect our children, brothers and sisters from this."