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Phone-A-Friend Costs Teacher a WWM Final Spot as Jauch Concedes On-Air Error

The teacher-themed episode set the lineup for RTL’s €3 million week final after a risky lifeline decision ended one contender’s run.

Overview

  • Primary school teacher Anna-Lena Spanier used her last lifeline on the €32,000 question, followed a caller’s confident but wrong tip, and fell to €500.
  • The correct response to the question about baby Ronin’s grandfathers was Kurt Cobain and Tony Hawk, reflecting the Frances Bean CobainRiley Hawk family link.
  • Günther Jauch repeatedly challenged contestant Johannes Vorspohl over the species of his garden hedge, and later acknowledged he was wrong after an editorial check.
  • Johannes Vorspohl earned €32,000 and reached the 3-Millionen-Euro-Woche final, with Jan Patrick Meister also winning €32,000.
  • Kilian Sasse and Ellen Zaghami advanced on €16,000 each, completing the finalists who return to play for a top prize of €3 million.