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Lars Lerin has appeared on various television shows in recent years where his last name adorns the title, for example “Lerin’s Summer Island” currently shown on SVT. But when the artist from Värmland sits in the chair of the Christmas presenter on December 24, it will be his first live broadcast as a presenter. Lighting the famous candle just before Kalle Anka is the time that makes you least nervous.
– It has turned in my head now, that I will try to keep my tongue in my mouth and cope with this job. It’s a processing all the time, he says.
“More Christmas is coming”
Lars Lerin focuses on being himself throughout the broadcast, there will be no roles or makeup, he says. Guests include her husband Manoel “Junior” Marques Lerin.
– I can’t redo myself or play any role as a hello TV pro. It’ll be on my way, “take it or leave it.” It’s one day in a year and there will be more Christmases. There are other channels if someone absolutely can’t take it, says Lars Lerin.
He prepares by talking loudly to himself all the time, to prevent him from calming down in midair.
– I will tell about the Christmases I have been in before, everything I associate with Christmas I will talk, memories of different parts of life and different times, says Lars Lerin.
I can feel outside
But it won’t just be positive stories about Christmas, the holiday has never been a highlight for the 66-year-old.
– I’ve had it really messy before and everything gets more amplified when it’s Christmas and holidays. You have to live up to that with happiness and you have to feel good. So you can feel left out if you don’t, says Lars Lerin and continues:
– Now it seems that many people feel lonely and may feel excluded, I understand that feeling because I myself have lived through more difficult moments.
Today, Lars Lerin usually celebrates Christmas with Manoel “Junior” Marques Lerin and his children, it will be a mixture of Swedish and Brazilian traditions. The decoration is done by the husband and he goes “with everything”, says Lars Lerin.
– Junior has decorations all year round, we never removed the Christmas tree, so now it was just to put the plug in the wall, then it was Christmas again, says Lars Lerin.
The fact that both spouses spend Christmas at SVT means that this year they can move on to their usual celebration.
– It doesn’t matter, we can just as easily celebrate Christmas with the children before or after, it doesn’t matter. It could have been different if the children had been older, says Lars Lerin.
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Lars Lerin had never thought of being a Christmas host, before SVT asked. “I think it’s a shame to say no if SVT now believes they have that confidence in me, you only live once and it’s exciting to challenge yourself,” he says. Photo: Ulrika Malm / SVT
Lars Lerin was born in 1954 in Värmland.
Known for his watercolors, he has often depicted Värmland and Lofoten in Norway, but also countries such as India and Iran.
Lerin debuted as a writer in 1989 and has published several books with notes, text fragments and quotes, illustrated with her own images, for example “February Letter from Reykjavik”.
In 2018, “Lerin’s Apprentices” premiered at SVT, where the artist has an art school for 13 people with disabilities.
The series received a sequel in 2019, “Lerin’s Apprentices in Brazil.”
The program “Lerin’s Summer Island” is now shown on SVT.
1959-1971: Bengt Feldreich (except 1966, 1968 and 1969)
1972–2002: Arne Weise (except 1979, 1988, 1989, and 1990)
2003: Lotta Bromé
2004: Ernst Kirchsteiger
2005: Flower Tainton
2006: Ingvar Oldsberg
2007: Anne Lundberg
2008: Lasse Kronér
2009: Lisbeth Åkerman
2010: André Pops
2011: Kalle Moraeus
2012: Sarah Dawn Finer
2013: Petra Mede
2014: Henrik Dorsin
2015: Gina Dirawi
2016: Sanna Nielsen
2017: Lotta Lundgren and Erik Haag
2018: Kattis Ahlström
2019: Marianne Mörck
2020: Lars Lerin
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