Dancing Stars: reboot with strict crown requirements – Dancing Stars

After having to take a break in March due to the crown, the Dancing Stars are now back. Rehearsals have begun and the first broadcast will air on ORF1 on September 25. Also included are: numerous crown measures, such as waiving a hearing and a public ban. Celebrities and professionals showed journalists on Monday that they have not lost motivation.

ORF-1 channel director Lisa Trotsauer wants to maintain the “role model” of the public broadcaster: “Today, all supervisors, dancers and celebrities are screened for the virus,” she told the journalists. The dancing couples – everyone is still there, no one had to leave in the first episode of March – will not have any contact with each other and will not be allowed to use public transportation. A distance of two meters is always kept, otherwise protective masks are used. Post-dance interviews will be moved to the studio, where couples will sit separately.

Only a few, mostly family fans, will sit in the ballroom. “It’s drastic,” said drag queen Tamara Mascara when asked by the APA, “but what’s more important is the audience in front of the television.” Actor Christian Dolezal is also happy that the format continues: “It’s good that something is happening that puts you in a good mood,” he said: “We want to hide the virus.” The Dancing Stars theme will start on ORF on September 18, that is, with an episode of “Q1 – A track is wrong” featuring celebrities from the Dancing Stars universe.

However, not everyone can be there in the fall. Since she would have to travel from London, presenter Mirjam Weichselbraun handed her microphone to Kristina Inhof, jury member Nicole Hansen from Switzerland withdrew for the same reason. She will not fill up. Michaela Kirchgasser’s partner, Willi Gabalier, is no longer there due to a contract with ServusTV. “The phase of getting to know each other has started again for me, but I feel good,” he said of his new teammate Vadim Garbuzov, who is also not a skier.

For celebrities: actors Christian Dolezahl and Edita Malovcic, drag queen Tamara Mascara, ex-skier Michaela Kirchgasser, ex-footballer Andi Ogris, boxer Marcos Nader, hosts Norbert Oberhauser and Silvia Schneider, as well as singers Cesar Sampson and singer opera Natalia Ushakova, has come back to life. the beginning. First round points expire in March, with the first broadcast everyone will perform a single dance. Some of them used the involuntary breaking of the crown to train. “I did ballet exercises with Florian locked up on Facetime,” Malovcic says of her dance partner. Ogris, who has a samba on the show, was more reluctant to train: “I was cycling a lot. But I gained the weight I had lost,” he admitted. It was similar with Sampson, who will dance a brisk pace in the first show: “The motivation to dance in the box was minimal,” he joked, but now everything is back to normal.