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Star comedian Mockridge in April 2019: "I need time, calm and distance to understand, learn and heal"
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Comedian Luke Mockridge has announced his retirement from a TV show planned for the coming year on Sat.1.
The 32-year-old who, among other things, »Luke!
The Great Night Show «moderated on Sat.1, responded to a research published in SPIEGEL on Friday.
It revealed new details about the rape allegations that his ex-girlfriend Ines Anioli had made against him.
In addition, more than ten women accused Mockridge of crossing borders.
(Read the entire research here.)
In a brief statement on the Instagram social network, Mockridge wrote on Friday evening: "Due to the current reporting about myself, I will extend my time off indefinitely." At the end of August, he had already announced a time-out for the year 2021 in an Instagram video .
In the video, he canceled all TV shows for the current year in response to allegations against him that have been circulating on social networks since February.
One week after Mockridge's video at the end of August, Sat.1 announced that it would host the new show "All Together Now" in 2022.
This return will not happen for the time being.
"I need time, rest and distance to understand, learn and heal," the comedian wrote in the post.
"You were pretty crazy yesterday"
SPIEGEL was able to view the files of the discontinued proceedings on the rape allegations from 2019. Mockridge wrote in a statement to the prosecutor that nothing had happened against Anioli's discernible will, he stopped immediately when he noticed "that she remained completely passive and did not react." In a chat history from the following day it sounded different, so Mockridge would not have stopped immediately. Anioli wrote: "You were pretty crazy yesterday". And: »Next time you have to be more careful or if I scream no (...) stop too«. Mockridge: “I wanted to 'turn you on'. You were like that. ”At the request of SPIEGEL, Mockridge's lawyer wrote that“ the allegations made by Ms. Anioli are all untruthful ”.
Another ex-girlfriend of Mockridge had made similar accusations in SPIEGEL as Ines Anioli.
Once he demanded a certain sexual practice and threatened separation when she did not want it.
Out of fear, she agreed, but quickly said that he should stop.
Despite her pain, he only stopped when she was crying.
Mockridge's lawyer did not comment on these allegations.
SPIEGEL was also able to speak to more than ten women who said they had had experiences with Mockridge, it was about abuse and uncomfortable hitting-ons in clubs, about kissing attempts and grabbing at the buttocks, about the fact that he would not accept a "no".
The words "aggressive" and "ruthless" keep coming up in their descriptions.
Mockridge's media attorney told SPIEGEL about the women's allegations that it was "without exception alleged facts that affect the privacy of our client" that should not be reported and therefore does not comment on the individual facts.
In addition, the deadline for the request was too short.
A spokesman for Sat.1 told the media service DWDL.de on request: "We respect Luke Mockridge's decision to extend his time off and not to moderate the Sat.1 shows announced for 2022."
However, Mockridge does not seem to rule out a return to the screen forever: He ended his Instagram statement with the words: “We'll see each other again.
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