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Line Up

1. Abdelkarim (41) Stand Up Comedian, Presenter
2. Sharon Battiste (31) The Bachelorette Star
3. Julia Beautx (23) Beauty Vlogger, Actress, Singer
4. Philipp Boy (35) former Olympic and World Champion Gymnast
5. Ali Gungormus (46) Michelin Star Chef, TV Chef
6. Chryssanthi Kavazi (33) Soap Actress, Wife of Alarm fur Cobra 11 lead star Tom Beck
7. Jens ''Knossi'' Knossalla (36) Entertainer, Comedian, Actor, professional Poker player
8. Michael Kraus (39) former World Champion Handball player
9. Timon Krause (28) Mentalist
10. Sally Ozcan (34) YouTuber, Food Blogger, Author, Model
11. Alex Mariah Peter (25) Transgender Model
12. Natalya Yegorova (48) Wife of Ukrainian politician and former boxer Vitali Klitschko
13. Younes Zarou (24) Social Media Influencer, YouTuber
14. Anna Ermakova (22) Model, Boris Becker's daughter

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these are early days rumours, sometimes few of those are actually in


once we have official contestant reveals, i'll edit the OP with the official cast list info



but also we have some live tour news!!


https://www.promiflash.de/news/2022/...ance-tour.html

fan favourites TeamSexRakette - Bastian Bielendorfer & Ekaterina Leonova are doing the tour, they will be taking part in 11 out of 22 shows

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who i personally want to take part

- Matthias Reim (schlager legend)
- Oliver Kahn (former goalkeeper of die mannschaft, bayern munich)\
- Jurgen Drews (schlager singer and ballermann pub icon)
- Charlotte Maihoff (news presenter i mean she is HOT HOT HOT)
- DJ Otzi (schlager singer, electro music icon)
- Hardy Kruger Jr (actor, because of covid ruined his chances this year i want him to get a second chance)

and tbh surprise me, i don't particularly care as long as it are fun group of people

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nice news regarding two of our pro dancers



Patricija & Alexandru Ionel the new dance world champions with their theme ''mr and mrs bond'' at the world championships in Leipzig

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not for this year, but might be for 2024

Patricia Kelly - singer, the kelly family star

she said this would be a dream come true for her to take part in this show, in last nights christmas show, but not for 2023 due to her going on tour, but she said if production asks me for 2024, she will say yes

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Abdelkarim

fellow comedian, actor Ottfried Fischer said about him in the laudatory speech for winning the Wooden Stuttgart Broom 2012:

"Abdelkarim just looks like stand-up comedy. But if he processes his everyday life humorously, it becomes political all by itself. Because he knows what the joke is about his thing, he doesn't need an attitude on top. A broom for the political entertainer Abdelkarim."

Since January 21, 2021, he has been running the weekly podcast nich.nich.nich. with author Lutz Birkner, which can be accessed on Spotify, Apple Music and Podigee, among others. At the start of the 2021/2022 season, he took over the moderation of the football comedy show Tippitaka on DAZN.

On November 15, 2021, his new show Team Abdel started on WDR television.

Awards

Abdelkarim at the German Television Award 2018
2010: Winner of the NDR Comedy Contest (annual final)
2011: Bielefelder Kabarettpreis 3rd place
2011: Winner of the Jury Prize Das große Kleinkunstfestival der Wühlmäuse[1]
2012: Wooden Stuttgart Broom
2015: Bavarian Cabaret Award in the category high-flyer
2018: German Television Award in the category Best Information
2020: Golden Camera in the category Best Newcomer[15]

Sharon Battiste

star of The Bachelorette 2022 Germany on RTL

From 12 March 2018 (episode 1317) to mid-2021 (episode 2133), she was part of the main cast of the RTL Zwei-Seifenoper Köln 50667, in which she played the former prostitute Clara Borkmann, called Bo. She has been modeling ever since.

Due to circular hair loss, she had her hair shaved short and wears changing wigs.

has Jamaican roots

Julia Beautx

mainly produces lifestyle videos such as lifehacks, DIYs, hauls or favorite videos. Her younger sister is occasionally part of her videos
In 2016, she was also a backstage guest on the Sat.1 television show Superkids – the world's greatest talents
Since 2018, Julia Beautx has been a registered word mark. Since the same year she can be seen in the ZDF television series Frühling as Lilly Engel.

Since October 2020, she can be seen together with YouTuber HeyMoritz on the DIY YouTube channel Mach mal mit Obi. She also starred in a scene in Wincent Weiss' music video for Wer, wenn nicht wir mit.

In 2019, she won the award in the category Favorite Social Star at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

Philipp Boy

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished fourth in the team final. At the German Championships 2009 Boy won the gold medal on the floor, he was second on the horse and reached with 86,300 points the third place in the all-around final. At the 2010 European Championships in Birmingham, Boy won the gold medal with the German team with 266,150 points in the team final and won the bronze medal in the bar final together with Fabian Hambüchen.

Boy's final international breakthrough came at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. After winning the bronze medal behind China and Japan in the team competition together with Fabian Hambüchen, Thomas Taranu, Eugen Spiridonov, Sebastian Krimmer and Matthias Fahrig, he won the silver medal in the individual all-around behind Japan's Kōhei Uchimura with 90.048 points, his first individual medal at the World Championships. In the bar final, he finished fourth behind Fabian Hambüchen. In addition, Boy was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance 2010 as the most elegant gymnast of the World Championships.

At the 2011 European Championships in Berlin, he won the gold medal in the all-around as successor to Fabian Hambüchen ahead of the Romanian Flavius Koczi and Daniel Purvis (Great Britain) and Mykola Kuksenkow (Ukraine). On the bar he won the silver medal.

Ali Gungormus

From 2000 he was temporarily head chef at the trendy restaurant Lenbach, then he became a young chef with Karl Ederer in the 1-star restaurant Glockenbach in Munich. Ederer subsequently became his patron and arranged for him a job in the 2-star hotel Tantris and in the Schweizer Stuben in Wertheim.

In 2005 he opened the restaurant Le Canard Nouveau in Hamburg-Othmarschen. In November 2006, his restaurant was awarded a Michelin star. At the end of 2016, Güngörmüş handed over the position of head chef to Florian Pöschl, but remained co-owner of Le Canard Nouveau

Güngörmüş can be seen as a juror in the ZDF program Die Küchenschlacht. Between 2012 and 2013, he also hosted the show for four weeks. He also appeared in the cooking show Lanz kocht!, which was also broadcast on ZDF.

Since May 11, 2014, he has been one of the professional chefs in the VOX cooking shows Grill den Henssler (11 appearances) and Grill den Profi. In addition, he competed in the first broadcast on February 3, 2019 episode of the cooking show Kitchen Impossible in the cooking duel against Tim Mälzer.

Since 2020, the cooking show Grillen mit Ali und Adnan has been produced for BR television, in which Güngörmüş grills dishes together with actor Adnan Maral. In 2021, Güngörmüş played the role of Dr. Zirner in the Maral-produced television film Servus, Mother-in-Law! The film was first broadcast on 29 October 2021 on Das Erste

Chryssanthi Kavazi

has greek roots, Chryssanthi Kavazi grew up with three siblings in Hillerse, where her parents run a Greek restaurant.

Kavazi had her first minor supporting role in 2015 in the German comedy Männertag, in the same year she appeared alongside Tom Beck in an episode of the television series Einstein. She has been known since 2017 for her leading role as Laura Weber and Laura Lehmann in the RTL daily soap Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.

also played in another soap series Alles Was Zahlt

Since 2015, Kavazi has been in a relationship with German actor Tom Beck

In November 2019, the couple became parents of a son. Since 2020, Kavazi has both Greek and German citizenship.

Jens ''Knossi'' Knossalla

Knossalla had his first television appearance in 2008 as a participant in the game show WipeOut – Heul nicht, lauf! on ProSieben

In 2010 he was seen on the television format Der Kreuzfahrtkönig broadcast on RTL II. In 2011, Knossalla took part in the game show 17 Meter hosted by Joko and Klaas. In November 2012 he was seen on VOX as part of the pseudo-docu-soap rent, kaufen, wohnen. In addition, Knossalla played several small roles in the pseudo-documentaries Richter Alexander Hold, Richterin Barbara Salesch, Lenßen & Partner, K11 – Kommissare im Einsatz und Verklag mich doch! as well as in the soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.

On May 4, 2021 and October 25, 2022, he was in the quiz show Wer weiß denn sowas? Guest. Both times he was on the team of Elton, with whom he won the show on October 25, 2022.

In 2011, Knossalla beat Natalie Hof in the final of the casting show PokerStars sucht das PokerAss broadcast by ProSieben and gained national fame. His only significant live tournament success came in July 2013 at the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Paradise, on the Las Vegas Strip. There, Knossalla finished 240th out of 6352 players in the Main Event, which is played in the variant No Limit Hold'em and commonly referred to as the Poker World Championship, and received prize money of around 37,000 US dollars. In total, he earned nearly $50,000 playing poker in live tournaments.

Knossalla regularly hosted various poker tournament series for PokerToday. For PokerStars, he covered the Main Event of the European Poker Tour and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure live with Martin Pott. The presenter duo was also heard at the 2017 PokerStars Championship. From 2012, Knossalla had his own column in the magazine Pokerblatt called "Der Knaller von Knossalla". From November 2016, he hosted the PokerStars Spin & Go Show every Tuesday on Sport1

On October 20, 2020, his first book Knossi – King of the Internet: About my rise and success as a streamer, which reached number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list

Michael Kraus

Kraus' international debut in the DHB jersey was on 25 March 2005 against Russia in Paris. In 2007 he became world champion with the German national team. He was named to the tournament's All-Star team. For winning the title, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf.

With Hamburg, Kraus won the DHB Supercup in 2010, the German championship in 2011 and the EHF Champions League in 2013, where he contributed six goals to the 30:29 final victory over FC Barcelona. In 2013 he returned to Frisch Auf Göppingen.

Achievements
Association
Champions League winner 2013 with HSV Hamburg
German Champion 2011 with HSV Hamburg
DHB-Supercup 2010 with HSV Hamburg
EHF Cup winner 2010 with Lemgo and 2016 with Frisch Auf Göppingen
EHF Cup Final 2006 with Frisch Auf Göppingen
National team
1st, Supercup 2009
5th, 2009 World Cup in Croatia
4th, European Championship 2008 in Norway
3rd, QS-Supercup 2007
World Champion 2007 in Germany
Member of the all-star team of the World Cup 2007
Player of the Match of the main round match against France at the 2007 World Handball Championship
5th place at Euro 2006
Participation in the Junior World Championships 2003

Timon Krause

Krause grew up in Anholt, a district of Isselburg, and studied philosophy in Amsterdam.
He learned his mental abilities in New Zealand. At the age of 16, Krause published his first book on mind reading. In 2016 he was named best European mentalist.

In 2016, he became the first German to win the prize of the US show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He published his second book Du bist Mentalist! in 2018. Krause has also appeared on TV shows. According to his artist agency Brainpool Live Artist & Brand, he has toured all continents with his program MindGames.

Awards
Dutch Mental Magic Champion 2014/2015
Audience Award Prix Cagliostro 2016
Best European Mentalist 2016/2017
TEDxFryslân Speaker 2017
TEDxAmsterdam Speaker 2018
Price of the show Penn & Teller: Fool Us 2016

Sally Ozcan

famous on youtube under the name ''Sally's Welt'' (Sally's World)
has over 2 million subscribers for her channel which is Germany's most successful YouTube channel on cooking and baking.

In April 2012, while still a student, Özcan started her YouTube channel Sallys Tortenwelt, on which she initially mainly presented cooking and baking instructions; she soon became a YouTube partner

In 2013, Özcan took part in the ZDF cooking show Topfgeldjäger, which significantly increased the popularity of her channel

At the beginning of 2016, Özcan won the Mein Vorbild Award. In October 2016, Özcan and her company were nominated and awarded the State Prize for Young Companies by the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 2017 she was awarded the Web Video Prize Germany in the category "Food". In July 2017 she received the Ambassador Angel of the Bundesverband Kinderhospiz e.V. In autumn of the same year she received the Axel Springer Place to B Award in the Food category. This was followed in June 2018 by the Tiger Award as Influencer of the Year. In 2019 she received the Golden Camera in the category Best of Coaching & Education. In 2022, Özcan won the Made in Baden Award in the Social Media category. Furthermore, Özcan is an ambassador for the Federal Association of Children's Hospices and the Stiftung Lesen

Alex Mariah Peter

The 1.84 meter tall Peter took part in the 16th season of Germany's Next Topmodel. There she was booked for Galvan London and Lena Gercke's fashion label LeGer. In the final on 27 May 2021, Peter won against three other candidates and won 100,000 euros and a car. She also appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine. She is the first trans woman to win the show.

She modeled for a beauty campaign for Kylie Jenner's makeup company Kylie Cosmetics, as well as modelling work for Swarovski, Steve Madden Europe, Oceansapart and Austrian designer Marina Hoermanseder, She was a testimonial for perfumes by Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Thierry Mugler and Viktor&Rolf Fragrances. Together with Novalanalove, Peter was the campaign face of Dior Beauty in March 2022.

In January 2022, she appeared in a L'Oréal commercial. In May 2022, Peter launched her first own collection at Peek & Cloppenburg.

Natalya Yegorova

Klitschko and Natalia Egorova, a former athlete and model, married on 26 April 1996. They have three children

best known for being the wife of Vitali Klitschko, whom currently is the Mayor of Kyiv as of June 5th, 2014

Klitschko and President Volodymyr Zelensky have been internationally praised as symbols of Ukrainian resistance

she herself did some modelling work, and was a former athlete in many long distance events

Younes Zarou

He is Germany's most far-reaching user of the TikTok platform.
He has two TikTok accounts: an international one with over 46.6 million followers (as of June 2022) and a German one with 3.4 million followers (as of July 2021)

His family comes from Morocco.

He studies Business Informatics at the Provadis School of International Management and Technology. In August 2019, he started uploading videos to the platform TikTok. In March 2020, he entertained his viewers live on the platform for a month without interruption, at times 200,000 people watched. The hallmark of his work is that he not only posts creative videos, but above all their making-ofs. Individual videos achieved over 100 million views.

Awards
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
2021: in the category Favorite Social Media Star: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

now only the final 14th celeb yet to be revealed

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not the most famous at first look line up, however when looking them up they seem very famous in their own rights


wow not even strictly has had a michelin star chef before for example



46,6 million followers on tiktok worldwide wow, although most of those can't vote so, won't be much help for him



i knew it, there has to be a Zelensky government connection, nice we have the wife of the mayor of kyiv


Alex Mariah, second transgender model after Loiza in 2020 to do this show


Michael Kraus is the teammate of recent dancing star Pascal Hens btw


a mentalist from the Penn & Teller show in the US


Chryssanthi & Tom are like a acting powercouple in the german showbizz world and Tom Beck is like a A-Lister from his alarm fur cobra 11 fame (which he still stars in as of this day)


Julia Beautx, a beauty vlogger but also picking one who also ticks the acting and music boxes, clever by RTL


i have good feelings about Knossi too, but pls don't be as embarrassingly bad as Ulli Potowski pls, although Ulli was top notch entertainment, so yeah maybe i do hope for similar entertainment potential

Sharon omg yass she's HOT and bachelorette signings always do well in the US version so we'll see how they'll do here

Abdelkarim is a very popular stand up comedian yep, almost close to popularity to legend Ilka Bessin, he also has loads of funny facial expressions



not what i was expecting but seems like a fun bunch of people yet again

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half february is launch show (earlier than last year)



all whats left is the 14th and final reveal, and that is a female reveal as we already have our 7 males, and only 6 females, so one more female to go

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Boris Becker's daughter completes the line up


Anna Ermakova

As an eleven-year-old, an issue of Vogue inspired her to a modeling career that led her to her first appearance at Berlin Fashion Week at the age of 14.

In 2017 she was photographed for the first time by the British fashion and lifestyle magazine You for a cover story. In March 2018, her contract was terminated by Ted Linow's agency Mega Model

The circumstances of her conception (broom closet affair) had made headlines in the tabloid press due to her father's prominence.

quite a young line up this year, no over 50's for this years class, it is a interesting line up anyway


i knew they would cast one with a Boris connection again, and ooh wow made history herself as well with modelling, at that young age

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i myself have heard 4/14 but those who i didn't know and looked up, all are good signups, stars in their own right

i heard of (Abdelkarim, Philipp, Michael, Sharon) as for that latter, i watch too many trashtv i know

Timon seems familiar to me


and i have seen Gungormus on tv couple times, he seems good fun too, his cooking style is a bit similar to Emeril Lagasse


don't know Chryssanthi that well but i do know her husband Tom very well, am a fan of Cobra 11, very good police action series and i have seen her maybe few times on exclusiv, appearances on red carpets with him


don't know Knossi, but hope he can be as entertaining as the likes of Basti Bielendorfer, Ulli Potowski, Guildo Horn

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last years dancing star Rene Casselly has won the gold alongside his ex-girlfriend Quincy, and is once again the circus king of Monaco, in the prestigious circus show of Monte Carlo





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we had our first lets dance promo on saturday, and officially confirmed the return of all 3 judges Jorge Gonzales, Motsi Mabuse, Joachim Llambi as well as the hosts Daniel Hartwich, Victoria Swarovski

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these are our 14 professional dancers for this year

Males
- Alexandru Ionel
- Andrzej Cibis
- Christian Polanc
- Massimo Sinato
- Vadim Garbuzov
- Valentin Lusin
- Zsolt Sandor Cseke

Females
- Christina Luft
- Ekaterina Leonova
- Isabel Edvardsson
- Kathrin Menzinger
- Maria Maksina (she is new, and she is Ekaterina's sister)
- Patricija Ionel
- Renata Lusin



so this means Evgeny is benched from the males and Malika is benched from the females compared to last year

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Official Profile Pictures/Glam Shots

Abdelkarim


Sharon Battiste


Julia Beautx


Philipp Boy


Anna Ermakova


Ali Gungormus


Chryssanthi Kavazi


Jens ''Knossi'' Knossalla


Michael ''Mimi'' Kraus


Timon Krause


Sally Ozcan


Alex Mariah Peter


Natalya Egorova


Younes Zarou

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next week and am so hyped seems like a pretty open field, no real on paper obvious duffers i think (maybe Knossi but he is one who i think could also easily surprise us all)


few ringers yes, Sharon and Philipp have got some dance experience



Younes hasn't danced yet despite being a tiktok star but he doesn't do dance videos (yet)



Ali seems like someone who could end up being my favourite, such a lovely guy, i want him with a great teacher like Renata (hopefully)



Christian if he's smart and allowed to choose, i hope he goes with Chryssanthi, seems like his usual type he usually does well with




Kathrin and Timon seems very likely pairing, she needs a mid-table one after last years win with Rene, and i feel like she can have lots of fun with a mentalist

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Youtube video

introduction video for our class of 2023

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who i think might end up being my favourites

my ranking based on this intro video

1. Ali
2. Alex Mariah
3. Philipp
4. Younes
5. Julia
6. Natalya
7. Knossi
8. Mimi
9. Sharon
10. Anna
11. Chryssanthi
12. Timon
13. Abdelkarim
14. Sally


but it is a strong year, maybe not the most known celebs but in all fairness like what some germans saying too ''sometimes nice getting to know stars you yourself haven't heard of before''


seems like a fun group

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hope Ali didn't lose any family members to the earthquake

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Malika Dzumaev will be replacing her, whom originally was planned to be on the reserves bench this year


comes as a major surprise just days ahead of the Grosse Kennenlern Show on friday



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will miss Renata Granata but am happy for ha

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hopefully i can watch it though, last few days there have been some black screens on the WDR, NDR and RTL channels

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tonight

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Alex Mariah Peter - Alexandru Ionel

Anna Ermakova - Valentin Lusin

Chryssanthi Kavazi - Vadim Garbuzov

Julia Beautx - Zsolt Sandor Cseke

Natalia Yegorova - Andrzej Cibis

Sally Ozcan - Massimo Sinato

Sharon Battiste - Christian Polanc
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Abdelkarim - Kathrin Menzinger

Ali Gungormus - Christina Luft

Jens ''Knossi'' Knossalla - Isabel Edvardsson

Mimi Kraus - Mariia Maksina

Philipp Boy - Patricija Ionel

Timon Krause - Ekaterina Leonova

Younes Zarou - Malika Dzumaev

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GAYS UNITE across the world, Alex Mariah is dancing for the LGBTQ+ community







TeamAlex&Alexu

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Ali Gungormus is also going to be fantastic, he has similar vibes to Emeril Lagasse in terms of personality YAS Slay you turkish legend

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https://www.rtl.de/cms/sendungen/lets-dance/videos.html

idk if the videos are geoblocked for you guys but here you can watch the performances so far for this series too

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80's week and Boys vs Girls dance off tonight