German TV personality whose surname is almost rude

At this point in the history of WAG of the Day, the Germans are an overlooked people: to my knowledge, only Sarah Brandner - girlfriend of the recently disgraced Bastian Schweinsteiger - represents them. Well, die Deutschen may be proud to see their WAG count doubled today, as model, popstar and TV presenter Annemarie Warnkross joins the list. If she hadn’t recently left him for a German soapstar, she’d be with Germany and Real Madrid defender Christoph Metzelder, probably trying to comfort him through his nation’s mixed Euro 2008 fortunes.

Annemarie grew up playing the piano and practising ballet, and eventually found fame through pop group Bellini. After their late nineties peak faded into obscurity, she started presenting television programmes such as Bravo Supershow and Taff and is now a regular face on German TV. She’s a bit like their equivalent of Fearne Cotton, except less annoying.

Spoiler bonus: Here’s the one Bellini song you will almost certainly recognise…

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