The trigger was probably the revelation of chats in which Jelinek had asked the then FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache for help with a position at the ORF and had essentially offered insider information in return.
Since then, Jelinek has been on vacation, only repeats were shown on TV, and the ORF investigated the allegations. Now a new format is to replace the previous gymnastics format. A new fitness format, “Fit with the Stars,” will start next Monday, every weekday at 9:10 a.m. on ORF 2. The program will be moderated and presented weekly by a different celebrity as a gymnast. Professional dancer Conny Kreuter will kick things off. Subsequently, former top athletes and audience favorites Armin Assinger, Andreas Goldberger and Hans Knauß, among others, will motivate the Austrians to do morning exercise.
Jelinek had recently spoken of a mistake. But he was never – as rumored – Strache’s fitness trainer, but simply trained in the same studio: “If I had known Werner Kogler, Sebastian Kurz, Pamela Rendi-Wagner or whoever back then, then of course I would have asked them too .”
