Carolin Kebekus

[2] Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Kebekus grew up as daughter of a social education worker and a banker in Köln-Ostheim.

[3] She started her career as an intern at Freitag Nacht News, a weekly comedy show.

[5] Her parodies of the lead singer Bill Kaulitz of the band Tokio Hotel in the Freitag Nacht News were the catalysts of her breakthrough.

However, in 2006 she also faced big backlash from the fan-community of Tokio Hotel and received hateful messages and threats.

[6] From September 2006 until the show was cancelled in December 2006, Kebekus was one of the hosts of Freitag Nacht News together with Ingo Appelt and others.