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The Rhön restaurateur Michelle Leist sat in the famous chair opposite Günther Jauch in the Easter special edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” © RTL/Stefan Gregorowius
A restaurateur from Rhön in Thuringia won 64,000 euros in the Easter special edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” The candidate not only surprised with a murderer anecdote, but also with an invitation to Günther Jauch.
Dermbach/Cologne - Anyone who followed “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” on Easter Sunday and Monday will not have missed the fact that Michelle Leist won 64,000 euros. The restaurateur from Dermbach in the Wartburgkreis district, neighboring Fulda, sat on the famous chair opposite moderator Günther Jauch.
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”: Restaurateur surprises with murder story
Michelle Leist was the last candidate who made it to the guessing chair in the middle of the Easter Sunday broadcast and was therefore allowed to play for the million with presenter Günther Jauch. The wife of star chef Björn Leist, who was recently awarded again in the “Guide Michelin”, was the quickest to answer the selection question.
When introducing the candidate, Günther Jauch said that Leist came from Dermbach. “Where is that?” the moderator asked the candidate. “In the Rhön,” she answered briefly and succinctly. Dermbach is located in the Thuringian Rhön on the border with Hesse.
The reaction to her appearance was overwhelming, Leist later reported to
the Fuldaer Zeitung
. “The feedback was 99 percent positive. Friends wrote to me via WhatsApp, and the reactions on Facebook and Instagram were also outstanding.”
After all, it was a pleasant appearance by the restaurateur in the Easter special of the TV show. And because she was the last candidate on Easter Sunday and had not yet answered all the questions, she appeared again on the show on Easter Monday.
“We went to the hotel that evening, but it was all so surreal,” says Leist, who had barely prepared. “I kept looking at current sports and current politics in the newspaper, but otherwise I let myself be surprised.”
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In the second program, she first asked Jauch about “a great story” - no problem for Leist: she had once taken in two murderers during her training in another hotel. They contacted her normally and asked for two pillows that evening. A few days later, Interpol was standing in front of the reception.
"My former boss had called me and said, 'You didn't really tell that story?!' But I almost couldn’t do anything else,” says the woman from Rhön and laughs: “By the way, I haven’t brought pillows to guests’ rooms since then.”
The TV appearance was not only likeable, but also successful. At the 64,000 euro level, Günther Jauch asked the candidate: "The Spaniard doesn't say 'That seems Spanish to me', but 'Esto me suena a...'?". With the help of the telephone joker, Leist came up with the correct answer: chino. So the Spanish version of the saying is: This sounds like Chinese to me.
“Who wants to be a millionaire?”: Rhönerin gets out when asked for 125,000 euros
The end for the restaurateur came with the 125,000 euro question. The question was which island was as big as Bonn: Mallorca, Corsica (correct answer), Crete or Ibiza. Leist got out and took home the winnings of 64,000 euros. She used it to go to Disneyland in Paris and to a Bon Jovi concert in the USA.
“I asked all my telephone jokers if they knew the answer. But they didn't know either. I don't regret anything about my gig and can only advise everyone to apply too. “You don’t have to hide,” emphasizes Leist. Incidentally, a public viewing was not organized, after all, she is on vacation and not in Germany. “Our employees watched it together. “A lot of people actually wanted to come to us, but we just weren’t there,” she says.
She gets a lot from the recording. In addition to the “nice fellow candidates and the nice television team who explained everything really well,” there was a very special surprise for presenter Günther Jauch. On the show he asked her about a possible menu that he could eat. “I invited him to dinner and sent him a cookbook. I also wrote to him that we don’t just offer sausage dumplings.” Jauch politely declined them on the show. The show is available on RTL+.