Horst Lichter is a veteran on German TV. The popular moderator with the mustache is known for his Rhineland humor and knows exactly how he deals with the audience. A curious photo of the bares for Rares stars has been circulating online for a long time: With XXL muscles and stored six-pack. However, there is a tragic story behind it.
Horst Lichter surprises with confession: “I couldn’t cope with it.”
Horst Lichter is one of the most popular TV stars in Germany. He became known as a television chef, and in 2013 he managed to win as a moderator of Bares for Rares: the junk show is one of the most successful formats ever and has been dreaming for more than ten years. (No wonder that the ZDF Horst Lichter pays an incredibly high salary.)
In front of the camera, the 63-year-old TV star always looks confident and confident, but it looks different behind the perfect moderator facade: In the Sat.1 talk show Dinner Party, lights admit that he has had to struggle with his self-confidence since childhood. After a serious accident, he was in the hospital for months as a teenager and increased a lot of weight. A bad time for lights: “Being fat was not nice for me. I couldn’t cope with it.”
“I trained pathologically”: Horst Lichter developed bodybuilding addiction
Horst Lichter speaks openly and unabashedly that he left his time as an overweight youthful scarred scars: “It still sits deeply today.”
Because he could no longer cope with his dissatisfaction, he began to change his lifestyle. “Then I started eating little. […] Then I got to know my darling and Then I started training like a doofer. ” Here you can admire the result of his transformation. No joke, the photo is real:
Unfortunately, lights shot out and fell into a real sports addiction. “I trained for a while for a while”he admits on the talk show. “This childhood experience was a trigger.” He went to the gym in every free second: “Gone in front of the late shift in the morning. Then after the cinema at night […] We went there again and trained calves. ”
His conclusion about this time is clear: “How sick.” Private and health blows then forced lights to rethink their life again. Training as obsessively as it was then.
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Cash for Rares runs Monday to Friday, at 3:05 p.m. on ZDF. Older episodes can be streamed for free in the ZDF media library.