At least since the latest “TV Garden” edition, viewers have asked themselves: Why are there suddenly so many and where do they come from? We’re talking about the Zarrellas.
A column by Janna Halbroth
Did you also accidentally slip on Sunday afternoon with the remote control in your hand? Did you accidentally press the ZDF button while you were falling and that was it for you? You were suddenly trapped in the “television garden”, just like a mere 1.82 million other people.
Basically, that’s nothing bad if it weren’t for the Zarrellas. The Zarrellas are primarily Jana Ina and Giovanni Zarrella. She a Brazilian model, he a former member of Bro’Sis. Bro’Sis, that was the second “Popstars” band after the No Angels.
In any case, Giovanni has made the casting jump, cavorts in a number of TV shows and moderates more hit formats than Florian Silbereisen. A really big number. But that Sunday everything started very differently. A younger version of Giovanni suddenly appeared in the “TV garden”, acted as a cook and brought a plate of pasta salad and a cocktail to an older version of Giovanni. I’m sorry, what?
Did we injure our heads more than we thought when we fell, which accidentally put us in this position in the first place? Do we suddenly see double and then distorted? Or have we traveled unnoticed in time? Do future Giovanni and past Giovanni have to fight together so that present Giovanni can continue to exist? Marty McFly from “Back to the Future” hits us with a newspaper article with a photo in which everyone is slowly but surely disappearing, even Jana Ina?
The Zarrellas are everywhere
No, of course it’s all nonsense. The younger Zarrella version was Giovanni’s little brother Stefano. Yes, there is. He is actually Pietro Lombardi’s best friend and manager. He was also with GNTM finalist Romina Palm, actually wanted to marry her, but separated from her after the engagement. And as if he hadn’t already qualified for at least three trash TV formats, Stefano still cooks on Instagram, wrote his own cookbook that topped the “Spiegel” bestseller list, and is now sizzling in the “ZDF TV Garden”. Holly cow.
And old Giovanni? This is the father of our Giovanni and therefore also of Stefano. Looking into the future, he looks confusingly similar to the two. And not only that. Bruno Zarrella, that’s the name of the good guy, also has a penchant for extroversion. In the “Fernsehgarten” he made his wife Clementina Zarrella (yes, does that never end?) a declaration of love for Stefano’s pasta salad and cocktail, singing the playback. Wow. The fact that uncle Egidio Zarrella was also at the start and “TV Garden” presenter Andrea Kiewel would have preferred to have married him on the spot so that she could be included in the Zarrella clan, which is likely to be successful, should not be explained further at this point.
Where is this supposed to lead with the Zarrellas? A Zarrella here, a Zarrella there, nowhere are you safe from these charming all-rounders. After all, it is only a very small step from the television chef of the “Fernsehgarten” to the Bundestag. And Giovanni? He already dominates the public broadcasters anyway. Next step: world domination. If we’re not careful, we’ll soon have a Zarrella invasion that will infiltrate almost every area vital to life.
Music, television, food, fashion – this clan is already building its own Univerrella. But no worry. By sitting out and persevering, we have already averted many a crisis and even survived the Kelly Family. We’ll survive the Zarrellas too. Possibly.
