They have been difficult days for the extenista Boris Becker. In early April, the German was sentenced for hiding assets from his creditors, after having gone bankrupt in 2017. After seven months, the athlete was released early from British prison and returned to his country.
However, the European has wasted no time. A crisis is an opportunity and the former Wimbledon champion is very clear about it. After a prison surrounded by a preferencial treatment y a two-year sentence that finally did not comply
Now Becker begins a new stage in his life, a way to market his story in the media, after the situation he experienced in the United Kingdom.
so lo described the German in an emotional interview that he gave to Sat 1in which he recounted his experiences in a confinement in which he finally officiated as a teacher in jail.
A conversation that was not free either. According to sources cited by the Bild and Spiegel newspapers, two of the most famous in the largest nation in Central Europe, the tennis player received more than a million dollars for the exclusive.
“Neither the broadcaster nor Becker commented on this trade exchange. But one thing is certain: for the tennis star, earning money has only just begun”, says the German portal T Online.
The one for Sat 1 is only the first advertising contract to bring to the screen the story of the German who was released from prison on December 15. A multi-part documentary has already been filmed with Apple TV+. Likewise, there is a project for a book to exploit the story, which should be published in 2023.
It’s not just Boris Becker who is cashing in on this newfound fame. According to Bild, the tennis player’s sons Noah and Elias are the new faces of the MAC jeans brand. The same medium ensures that the brothers helped design theHe wore the pants along with his mother, Barbara Becker, who was married to Becker from 1993 to 2001.
The same woman, 56, shared images from a session with star photographer Nomi Baumgartl on his Instagram account. Those were the first recordings of an advertising campaign scheduled to launch in January.
