Overview
- He announced his exit on Instagram, writing “Mit Stolz kehre ich dem Ganzen den Rücken” and saying no sum could draw him back to the “untersten Schubladen des Fernsehens.”
- He said Goodbye Deutschland is over for him and ruled out other formats such as Sommerhaus der Stars and the Dschungelcamp.
- He criticized on-camera drinking, sexual behavior under duvets, and what he described as a refusal to work or accept responsibility among participants.
- He derided fellow contestants as “Reality-Pappnasen” and “letztklassige Selbstdarsteller,” describing the scene as a “Zirkus” in his post, as widely reported.
- Known as the “Currywurstmann,” he rose to fame in 2012 when cameras followed his move from Cologne to Los Angeles with a currywurst food truck on Vox’s Goodbye Deutschland.