Just in love at Christmas – VG

Above you can see the video of the first sample of “Spend Christmas With Me”, the duet “New Year’s Eve” with Trygve Skaug.

But there are also other men who have been important to Ulrikke since we last heard from her.

– I have my husband and my dog! It sounds bubbling through the earpiece when VG calls it.

So what happened to his partner (now ex-partner) and manager Christoffer Gunnestad, who even banned him from dating before he won the Melodi Norwegian Grand Prix last winter?

– Christoffer and I probably needed a break from each other so I kicked it out and became a partner with my girlfriend, he says with a smile and insists that the purely professional relationship with Gunnestad is top-notch even though it has been moved from Casa The Kaos. , as they called their shared home at Majorstua in Oslo.

Ulrikke has not hidden from the public that she has wanted a boyfriend. She is very happy to have finally met Oskar Nordberg.

– We met right after the pandemic. Imagine that I was going to mate with a native of Bergen studying in Ås! He will become a scientist and save the world, while I will entertain him. So he became a man and a dog instead of Eurovision. But not the children yet, there will be no Christmas miracle this year, he laughs.

Ulrikke Brandstorp once again highlights the seriousness when he recalls the gruesome beginning of spring when the Covid 19 virus canceled the entire Eurovision Song Contest. The recession intensified when NRK decided that it could not automatically be Norway’s representative in 2021, as it so badly wished.

– It was a big mess, but I refuse to let myself be dragged down that spiral. It’s about taking action when things go wrong, he says.

– Was the cancellation of Eurovision what made you think about making a Christmas album?

– Whether or not. I’ve always dreamed of making a Christmas record, but he did his part to kick my butt and long enough to do it, he says.

Suddenly, the sparkle in his eyes returns;

– Once Kurt Nilsen must step down from the Oslo Spektrum throne, and then it’s time for a woman to take office! That is my big and hairy goal: it is important to dream, I have never been afraid of it. But first you must buy your time, he says.

Ulrikke Brandstorp says that she and her partner Christian Stähler went to the family cabin in Haglebu to write songs for the Christmas album in late April.

– But then it was difficult to get a Christmas atmosphere. It was a few days before we got close to the piano, but one day it suddenly snowed and then got loose. We struggled with the text, so I had an idea that Trygve Skaug should write it. Often, you don’t dare to ask because you are afraid of receiving a no, but he said yes. It gave me a lot of security and energy. I don’t think I’ve ever met a man who sees the people around him as well as he does, he says.

Ulrikke is happy to admit that Christmas means something very special to her.

– I’m a real “dummy” for Christmas. Not with gifts and such, but with the atmosphere itself. Have time for family. People get a little friendlier at Christmas, almost like May 17th. Mom always dreamed of finding a cabin to bring the whole family together for a Christmas celebration, and a few years ago she found it. So there was ten feet of a Griswold-style Christmas tree and a long table with about twenty people, from babies to 99-year-old great-grandmother. We won’t be that many this year then, we take infection control very seriously!

Next year he looks on with great expectations: great things are happening, he says. Although most of it is currently secret, of course.

Minus one thing; in the new year, he appears in the hit series «Kompani Lauritzen».

– It will be so good, I promise good entertainment! I myself will sit ready in front of the television with the pillow in front of my face …