Mika on German TV Sat1, 01.10.2012

[LaraMay]

I edited the funny part out where he cracks up during Celebrate and uploaded it to YT, hope it's ok DerMoment1608

[Littlelady]

Originally Posted by DerMoment1608

If was tempted to write "to no one" as an answer, as "Grace Kelly" isn't a dedication to Grace Kelly (sometimes one has to be a little bit pedantic )

You're right. Surely I didn't win but I have a bad cold now, so it hadn't been possible to go there and to meet him( Hihi what a pity I had liked to infect him with my "virus", small revenge for the Mika Virus. It is uncurable

[mellody]

report part 2:

so finally it was time for saskia and me to go upstairs, where the m&g would take place in mika's dressing room. they filmed most of it and will show it on tv tomorrow, or some time this week, if i understood it correctly. the presenter torgen first talked to us a bit, the camera guy told us not to turn our back towards the camera, and the pr boss of universal germany also talked with us. they were worried whether we were real mika fans, but then were a bit shocked to hear that we had already met mika, so they told us and mika, who was running around between 2 dressing rooms, to act like we hadn't met before. (torgen shouting across the room to mika: "you don't know these girls,ok?!" - priceless! )

then the camera started fiming, torgen said hi to us, then we went over to the dressing room and said hi to mika too. he greeted us with kisses on the cheek, aww! torgen told mika he looked better than 2 years ago, and when mika said sth like "do you really think so?" torgen asked us whether we agreed. and i answered "he always looks good!" inside, mika, saskia and me sat on the sofa, and there was a similar conversation again, iirc i told mika that he looks even better in reality than on tv ... trying to act accordingly to the "script" that this was our first meeting with him. torgen also said sth like "go on, you can touch him!", so i touched mika's arm for a moment, i felt weird doing that as i'm usually not the kind of person to touch people while talking with them - but ignoring what torgen said would've been weird too... "nah i don't want to touch him!"...

btw, saskia and me had agreed before that i'd do most of the talking and she'd interrupt me if she wanted to add something, as she wasn't too keen on talking in front of a camera. i wasn't either, but it was quite a relaxed atmosphere so it felt ok. just in case you wonder why she didn't say much... it's not because i wouldn't let her,lol!

after we had sat down, mika showed torgen a pic he had drawn... looked kinda interesting, some sort of hangman... hope they'll show that on tv! ;-)

then i gave mika the gingerbread heart and he loved it. he said it smelt like christmas. and that he has never been to the oktoberfest. he then told us a funny story, that he once had a competition against his brother, who of them could make the best gingerbread house. he said his took 2 (3?) days and was huge, with towers and everything.

i don't remember the order of the other things we said/asked, and what of that was filmed - at some point the camera guys left the room. i remember i asked m to sign my album cover, which he did (very sweet, posted it on twitter today ) and the camera guy wanted to film the signed cover. saskia gave m a photobook to sign which she had made of the 2010 tour, and he made a lovely drawing for her - that pic also is on twitter. he also looked through the book. and while he did that, i asked him what we can expect from the shows in autumn.. he said they'll be mainly about the music, as he couldn't do much in those small venues. and that he had insurance problems re. getting people on stage. he didn't look too happy when he said that, seems he had planned something along those lines and was annoyed about insurance getting in his way. tho he also said he had expected it would happen.

damn it takes ages typing on that phone! xD luckily i still have nearly 3 hours til i'm home.... xD part 3 will follow...

[smokesignal]

You're on your phone I'm even more impressed! It's really nice to read, you know?

[mariposa]

Originally Posted by mellody

i'm on my way home from berlin and it was a-ma-zing!!!

it's gonna take me a while to write a report on my phone,so i'll first post the pix, report will follow.

mika with the present i got for him on the oktoberfest. bine,graciosa,tina and mariposa also contributed to it - he loved it!

http://twitpic.com/b04ep3

and the pic of us... no, he wasn't talking,he just opened his mouth.

http://twitpic.com/b0188z

Thank you for your little report, Karin!!
Can't wait to watch you being interviewed on telly.

[DerMoment1608]

Thanks for your report, mellody! It sounds amazing

Originally Posted by LaraMay

hope it's ok DerMoment1608

Of course it is

[mellody]

i enjoy writing this, as the more i write down, the more details come to my mind - i had already forgotten so many things, but it feels like if i write down what i remember, this leaves more space in my head to remember more things. like in harry potter,lol! :rotfl: so, thanks for reading my memory exercises. ;-p

report part 3
when torgen said goodbye to m, he wished him good luck and m said it had to be toi toi toi or merde. the latter confused torgen, he said "but that means sh*t?!" - and then he said "ok, good sh*t then!" ... and mika was like - that was really funny, hope they'll show that on tv too!

i told mika i loved his new album and couldn't decide which was my favourite song - an m answered sth like "you don't have to decide that yet" - lol!

saskia gave mika a bag of berliners (jam-filled donuts), and when he saw it his eyes lit up and he looked like he'd rip the bag out of her hand,lol! he said "i LOVE those!" and immediately ate a little piece. which was especially funny since while we were waiting for the m&g, a woman from the tv team had told us that mika doesn't eat bread/carbs when she saw the berliners. i told her that he had also said before that he was vegetarian, which wasn't true... i suspected that he just might not have liked the bread *she* had offered him... - but i didn't say that.
when saskia gave m the berliners, there also was a conversation about kennedy's "ich bin ein berliner", iirc the pr guy from universal started it ( the cameras were off by then), but i don't remember who said what, just that either him or mika came up with the "i am a donut" joke.

at some point mika talked about his further plans. until the tour, but i think saskia remembers more of that. the only thing that was new to me was that he said he'd do another tv show on german tv soon. today he had lots of radio & magazine interviews in berlin, none of them live tho.

in the end we took the photos, and i asked m to meet the 2 fans who were waiting for him outside - which he did, they also got photos and autographs and could give him their presents i stood in the back & took a few pix, will post them tomorrow or so. unfortunately there were a lot of autograph collectors who rushed towards him when they saw he stopped for niko & miri. mika said to niko that he didn't like them and wished they'd go away... and he said loudly that he'd only sign CDs (which of course most of them didn't have )

i think that's all i can remember now ... but i want to add, i loved how you could see the difference between the camera mika and the real mika... he was all happy and awake and talkative for the tv camera, but after it was off, you could sense he was really tired... and i love it that he doesn't feel like he has to play a role for us.

[cathouzouf]

I love reading your reports

[Christine]

Karin that's a great story. I'm really glad they chose real fans even if you have to pretend that you weren't. I can't believe he told the woman he doesn't eat carbs. I read recently that the Kennedy comment was a bit of a myth and he didn't really say he was a donut but I guess the Berliners know better.

Sounds like a great meeting and I hope we get to see everything soon. I agree that it's great to see him drop the act when he gets away from "the public". It reminds me of some of the comments he said a few weeks ago about his fans already knowing/not caring about his sexuality. There's a level of comfort/trust there after all these years I think.

[mari62]

Thanks for the lovely and detailed report Karin, and for sharing the pics
I'm pleased you had such a special day

[Cassilda]

Thanks Karin for your great report, I loved it!

The gingerbread heart is also fantastic and you look great in your Dirndl!

And I would lie if I said I didn't envy you, at least a little

[suzie]

@Demoment1608 thank you so much for the files - they are still downloading and will take a while

@ Karin and Saskia, It sounds like you turned the show into something fun to watch. Besides you having a great time I am absolutely sure you have contributed to a positive reception of Mika's new album in Germany. Well done