Ivo Niehe: I teased Tina Turner about her poor French | present

In an preliminary response to the information, the US authorities calls it “an enormous loss”. The White Home labels the artist an icon. “That’s extremely unhappy information. Tina Turner was an icon, a music icon,” stated a spokeswoman. She went on to say that she was an enormous fan of the singer.

TV icon Ivo Niehe interviewed Tina Turner twice. In a response, he calls the world star an ‘extremely sympathetic individual with an extremely unsympathetic group of individuals round her’.

Simply earlier than his first assembly with Turner, he acquired a seven-page fax, he appears to be like again on Wednesday. ,, Her PR staff solely allowed her to speak about her new album. The questions had been actually written out. Like: what do you assume is the perfect music? What’s the goal of the primary quantity? And the second quantity?”

Naturally, Niehe didn’t follow the script. ,,I began about her home in France, in Villefranche the place she lived half the 12 months and was happiest. I teased her about her poor French. She could not order bread from the bakery but. The boys doing her PR had been stamping their toes behind the cameras, but it surely was arduous for them to interrupt the shoot. I believe she actually loved it.” The most effective second was when a person from the viewers stood up, says the interview guru. ,,Tina, will you marry me, requested the person. Her well-known response was, “I will give it some thought.” She was surely a sweetheart of a human being with a fantastic sense of humour.” Niehe agreed that he would go to the singer once more in France. “Sadly, that by no means occurred.”

Reactions from the showbiz world are additionally trickling in on Instagram. Fred van Leer, who imitated Turner to his coronary heart’s content material, says he’s ‘confused’. “Tina, you’re merely the perfect.” The American actress Sarah Jessica Parker underlines that. ‘I liked and love you’, she additionally says.

Stylist Jetteke van Lexmond, collectively together with her sister Lieke, had the glory of assembly Turner in individual. With a photograph of that second, she says that Tina has impressed hundreds of thousands of individuals. Goosebumps second. You may be missed.’

Learn right here: for Tina Turner, life was and at all times will probably be powerful

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