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After Xavier Naidoo's cleansing video, other celebrities who have gone astray are now planning to appease the audience with commitments to repentance.
The Mannheim soul singer had attracted attention for years with homophobic, anti-Semitic and bourgeois statements, has now publicly apologized for these failures and thus landed a media surprise coup.
It is to be expected that the repentant will now be given new record contracts and TV appearances.
Those who have drifted off want to follow this example, according to reports, several apology videos are in the works that are to be published soon: The right-wing vegan cookbook author Attila Hildmann is planning a reading of the Basic Law and wants to get involved as a municipal election worker at the next opportunity.
The conspiracy ideologist Ken Jebsen wants to contact Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates personally and do voluntary service in his foundation.
The actor Volker Bruch ("Babylon Berlin"), who is critical of the corona measures, is shocked by earlier statements and makes himself available as an actor for a vaccination campaign by the Ministry of Health.
Even a particularly stubborn hardliner now wants to face his own past, admit his worst mistake and thus be accepted again: Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is also in front of the camera in Hanover for a reversal video.
It contains a spectacular confession: Currywurst is overestimated.
From now on he lives vegan.