Cult show host Thomas Gottschalk now places more value on a healthy lifestyle given his age. However, there are still limits, the 73-year-old told “Apotheken Umschau”. “I’ll be honest: I don’t believe in all this fumigation and yoga wisdom.” Nevertheless, with his new partner Karina Mroß he is doing “things that I would never have done before”. For example, a session with a singing shaman was actually relaxing. “It doesn’t bother me if someone stirs their singing bowl,” said Gottschalk. “But of course I laughed a little inside.”
Basically, he likes to suppress the hardships that age brings with it. Gottschalk said in the interview that his body had already gotten used to sending signals. “I won’t listen anyway.” It was only through Mroß, with whom he has been in a relationship for four years, that things changed again.
However, Gottschalk emphasized that he wanted to annoy other people as little as possible with his misery. “But today everyone carries their aches and pains like a monstrance and, especially online, is praised and loved for it.” His conclusion: “Today you are almost insensitive without lactose intolerance.”
In order to stay fit, the couple says they do regular exercise. They trained in the fitness center for an hour and a half every day – except Sundays, when they walk. “Rosi Mittermaier – God rest her soul – recommended Nordic walking to me,” Gottschalk remembered. “It makes a difference whether you traipse along like that or walk with sticks and train your muscles.”
Mroß has now also been convinced of this: “As a jogger, I found it a bit silly at first. I always felt so old. But now I’m totally convinced and only hike with sticks,” said the 61-year-old.
