Sonja Zietlow

Sonja Zietlow (born 13 May 1968) is a German television-presenter. Zietlow was born in Bonn. After she graduated from school and before her media-career began in 1993, she worked as first officer for the German airline Lufthansa. When Zietlow was a candidate in a TV-show, she was offered a job as host. She began her career as a host of Hugo & Hexana and is most-famous for her ongoing hosting since 2004, of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!.

More-recently, she has hosted several RTL-shows, most-notably Der Schwächste fliegt!, a German adaptation of the hit BBC quiz-show The weakest Link. Since 2004, she hosts Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German adaption of I'm a Celebrity...Get me out of here!. In 2004, she was awarded the title "Woman of the Year (Moderation)" by Maxim Deutschland.