Which duo is really a happy couple - and which one is just pretending? On the new show How Fake Is Your Love? (from today, Tuesday, September 7th, on ProSieben) real couples meet fake couples. Nobody knows who is real and who is fake. Not even moderator Annemarie Carpendale (43).
In an interview with the news agency spot on news, she talks about the signs of a happy and an unhappy relationship – even if the show messed up her ideas about it. She also talks about working with husband Wayne Carpendale (44), with whom she is again presenting a show together.
Ms. Carpendale, you really didn't know which couples were on "How Fake Is Your Love?" are real and which are not?
Annemarie Carpendale: No, I voluntarily decided to guess and it was a lot of fun from the first to the last second! Although I was there and actually always thought that I had a good feeling for something like that, I have to admit that I was actually quite wrong on occasion.
Is "HFIYL" more of a guessing show like "Masked Singer" or a couple challenge like "Summer House of the Stars" or "The Beauty and the Nerd"?
Carpendale: Well, if you're already asking me: "HFIYL" is actually just unique. And the perfect mix of love, lies, and passionate guessing. As a spectator, you are infected from the first second. And the nice thing is: The real couples only find out in the first show that there are also fake couples among them.
How do you recognize a happy relationship at first glance?
Carpendale: Before "HFIYL" I would have said: By simply seeing and, above all, feeling when these people are standing in front of you. But unfortunately I can't confirm that easily after shooting the show. I also let myself be fooled by one or the other.
Are arguments and disagreements still part of it?
Carpendale: Oh yes! Wayne and I could never do without. For me personally, a flatline relationship where everything is always peace, joy and pancakes would be nothing.
Have you ever noticed from couples who are friends that there is something wrong in the relationship behind the happy facade?
Carpendale: We have a fairly open circle of friends, problems are not kept secret - which sometimes leads to the wildest discussions in front of everyone. But everyone has problems from time to time. From my point of view, it gets tight when one loves more than the other.
What are the unmistakable signs that something is wrong in a relationship?
Carpendale: If you can tell from the couple's body language that they don't care. Or simply lack of respect for each other. That always makes me very sad.
Do you think there are Hollywood celebrity couples who are actually just fake? What could that be?
Carpendale: Of course you can hardly answer that from the outside. Especially in Hollywood, the extra portion of glamor and glitter is wrapped around the relationship, so it's even more difficult to distinguish between real and fake. For example, I don't think George Clooney is faking his relationship like many people claim. As a cosmopolitan person, he doesn't need to pretend to the whole world. I've seen him live a couple of times and he's just way too nice for this world - including to his fans. I still don't understand why he has to be gay for that.
How did the shooting on Mallorca go under Corona conditions?
Carpendale: All couples were tested regularly and quarantined for 14 days before moving in. That's why they were allowed to treat each other normally. I, on the other hand - despite vaccination and testing before each shoot - only entered the house in exceptional cases and at a very large distance from everyone. Then it was disinfected (laughs). Of course, I think that's a great pity, because I'm actually a physical person and like to hug people, or even give them a slap on the bottom. I really had to pull myself together then. But I am very happy and grateful that we were allowed to shoot at all.
What was it like working with her husband again?
Carpendale: Unfortunately, we didn't really work together this time. I did the entire production on site in Mallorca and my boys visited me privately together with both grannies. After such a long time, it was a kind of family get-together again and it was really good. The idea that Wayne could narrate the show didn't really occur to us until we were shooting. And it gives the show this very special, personal touch. Aside from his beautiful, dark, sexy narration voice.
Her new show is her third with her husband. Will they soon only be available in doubles?
Carpendale: Funny, my feeling is the other way around, we haven't done anything together for a very long time. Wayne has just finished a big production with Sat.1 and for my last shows like "The Voice of Germany", "Kiss Bang Love", "red" or "taff" I stand with my television men Thore Schölermann or Christian Düren in front of the camera. Or as a single. Let's put it this way: I really like the variety.
Do you still manage not to take your work home too often?
Carpendale: Of course we often talk about work. But not because we make them together, but because we are each other's best critics and advisors - and because we just have fun talking about it. Although we really have so many other topics that we like to talk about at least as much, such as our circle of friends, building our house, upcoming trips and, above all, our little son. We talk about him - or with him - by far the most!
