Between the children's birthday party, the Super Bowl, the Vienna Opera Ball and a guest appearance in Las Vegas, Oliver Pocher (45) had another surprising encounter, which very few would have expected, and which he has now spoken about in depth for the first time. : Pocher came to Miami with his old rival, controversial pop star Michael Wendler, 51.

Wendler jumped off TV after spreading conspiracy theories about, among other things, comparisons between the corona pandemic and concentration camps. He was kicked out of the jury of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” in early 2021. When broadcaster RTLZWEI planned to use cameras to monitor Wendler and his 23-year-old wife, who was expecting their first child, during their pregnancy about a year ago, the protest was so great that the broadcaster immediately turned off the television. project. He is said to have large tax debts to the tax authorities in Germany.

Oliver Pocher meets Michael Wendler in Miami

The meeting with Pocher happened when he visited his ex-husband Sandy Meyer-Wölden (40) and their three children in Miami at the beginning of the month. Pocher's eldest daughter Nayla celebrated her 14th birthday. In the new episode of the joint podcast “The Pochers! Freshly Recycled” (Podimo), this time taped in front of a Berlin audience, Sandy asked him about his meeting with Wendler and wanted to know how it went.

First, Pocher joked, referring to the singer's much younger wife, that Wendler is now “getting child support twice – for Laura and the baby.” The two had a son in June. Pocher then explained how the two met. “He noticed I was in Miami and said 'don't you even want to come.' Then I met him and listened to what he had to say about how he's been for the last three years,” Pocher said.

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“And how did they do?” Sandy wanted to know. “Below average,” replied Pocher. “And then I also told him why he was talking so stupidly and why he didn't just shut up and that no one cares what he thinks,” Pocher clarified. He told her that Joe Biden (81) won the US presidential election, not Donald Trump (77). He asked Wendler “what's going on with her” and why Laura appeared pregnant on Onlyfans. “We went through it a little bit,” Pocher said.

“Has he shown wisdom and insight?” asked Sandy. Pocher answered: “In a certain way, yes – of course he wouldn't do that again, that's clear, because he has completely divided his career into all parts. But he wants to go back to Germany and perform here again,” he said. Pocher doesn't rule it out. “But he needs to clear up a few things,” she said as a prerequisite. “What exactly did he mean, what is his tax debt number, whether he will be arrested at the airport or not. He always says no, everything is fine. Then I said, well, maybe you should go to Germany and answer two or three questions,” he reported of their conversation.

Regarding Wendler's possible return to the German stage, Pocher said that basically he is “not a fan of cancellation”. He emphasized: “What he has, he should explain and regulate. And otherwise the market will regulate it, if Michael Wendler appears somewhere in Germany at a disco or a mega park, people either go there or they don't, nobody can be forced to go,” is Pocher's opinion. He thinks Wendler has “some entertainment value.”

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Pocher had repeatedly parodied Wendler in recent years and made him the subject of his screen controls. After a long time on social media, the two had a showdown in 2020 on RTL's “Pocher vs Wendler”.

After his planned documentary on RTLZWEI ended, Wendler expressed his confusion in a statement last year. Among other things, he said, “What wrong have I done?” He could not believe “that there should be so many hateful informers in Germany. People who only want the worst for me and my dear pregnant wife Laura.

He continued: “I stood up for freedom of speech and basic rights of all people and warned that corona shots are not without side effects. I had to explain things through Telegram because there was strict censorship on other social media.” Wendler described Germany as a concentration camp after the corona measures and later claimed that he did not mean a “concentration camp” but a “crisis center”.

Wendler had already reached out to Pocher after his split from wife Amira became public last year, the comedian said on his podcast in September. Pocher's answer to the then controversial pop singer: “That my relationship will break before yours? Respect.”

Sandy Meyer-Wölden's disgusting statement against Oliver Pocher caused an online sensation on Wednesday. Pocher's ex probed Amira against the comedian.