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“I have him back!”Hardy Krüger Jr. loses his wedding ring in Australia – a stranger is now bringing it back
A moment for eternity – and then the shock moment.
After moving out of the jungle camp, Hardy Krüger Jr. and his wife Alice want to renew their wedding vows, but just seconds later the surf tears the actor's wedding ring into the waves. Everything seems lost until a rescuer from northern Germany intervenes. You can see the emotional ring handover in the video.
If you are surprised on the beach, the ring will disappear into the sea
Two weeks in the jungle take their toll: Hardy Krüger Jr. loses seven and a half kilos in the camp – which is why the ring suddenly fits loosely on his finger. When his wife Alice puts the ring back on him on the beach and he jumps into the waves for joy, the piece of jewelry suddenly disappears into the sea.
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Hardy remembers the desperate situation in the RTL interview: “I would never have thought in my life that I would get this ring back. The situation was so absurd. The waves were big, the wind, all the sand was stirred up.” But the 57-year-old retains a spark of hope and predicts shortly after the loss: “The ring will find us.”
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Ring rescue mission on the other side of the world
Thousands of people see the scene online, and one person immediately knows: he can help. Felix Johannsen from Neumünster calls himself “ring rescuer”. The 41-year-old has been using a metal detector to search for lost pieces of jewelry on the North and Baltic Seas for 15 years. When he sees the case, he comments on Instagram: “Don't give up! He's only lost if we don't find him.”
He then launches a rescue operation across several continents. “I then contacted our ring rescuer in Australia. He started looking the next day when the tide was low and was able to rescue the ring from the sand after just 15 minutes.” The ring, which costs around 2,000 euros, is sent by post to Felix in Germany.
Emotional handover and a wedding invitation
Finally, on Friday (March 13th) the celebratory moment arrived on Timmendorfer Strand: “I have him back!” Hardy Krüger Jr. is holding his wedding ring in his hand again. “A ring like this obviously has a lot of meaning. Not just because it's a wedding ring, but because this ring has a lot of meaning for us. It actually stands for everything we've been through,” he says in an interview with RTL.
He's back! Hardy Krüger Jr. proudly presents his saved wedding ring on his finger.
RTL
And the story even has a happy ending: Felix Johannsen is invited to the Krügers' next wedding. The actor is overwhelmed by the selfless help of the professional searcher. “It's part of our marriage. We'll always talk about you. There's never been this unknown third party in a marriage where everyone says: How can that be? I think I'll still be telling that to my grandchildren in 100 years,” says the 57-year-old. Felix is also touched: “I’m super happy, super happy and hope that we can save many more marriages.”
Sources used: own RTL research
