Overview

• Andrea Kiewel announced her engagement live during the ZDF-Fernsehgarten broadcast on June 22, proudly showing her ring and addressing her fiancé Cheri.
• She missed the June 15 show after Israel closed its airspace and returned this week via a privately funded detour through Egypt.
• The open-air broadcast proceeded under an official heat warning from the Deutscher Wetterdienst, with temperatures climbing to 36 °C.
• Kiewel has hosted the summer ZDF-Fernsehgarten since 2000, lives in Tel Aviv and covers her own travel costs for the weekly trip to Mainz.
• Her fiancé is a former Israeli elite soldier, and the engagement marks her next step following three previous marriages.