Among the most frequent questions asked to Google by Italians in recent days are: “Are the Kessler twins dead?” The answer is no. TV’s most famous dancers are alive, healthy and wearing their 87 years beautifully. However, they start thinking about what will happen next and they have already made a willwith the explicit request to remain next to each other forever.
The will of the Kessler twins
Wise, pragmatic and farsighted, the so-called long-legged fairies of Italian television leave nothing to chance. And it seems they are preparing down to the smallest detail even the future transition to a better life. To the German tabloid Bildthe Kessler twins opened up about their afterlife plans, saying they wanted to stay “united even in death”.
Literally: “After death we want to remain together, possibly in a single urn” declared the most famous twins on the small screen. Alice and Ellen, 87 years old each, have already established this will in their will. Document which talks about a very crowded ballot box, in which the showgirls would like to include even mother’s ashes (defunct 1997) and the beloved poodle Yellowhich was left to them as an inheritance by their mother.
“We loved him more than anything. – the Kesslers said of the furry puppy – It was always a great joy to come home and see how happy the dog was with its two owners”. And to replicate this joy in the afterlife, the octogenarian twins hope to be able to continue to have him by their side even at the cemetery: “We sincerely hope that this wish can be fulfilled.”
Is it possible to be buried with the dog?
In the face of complicity and the bond that has always linked Alice and Ellen, together on stage and in life without ever leaving each other, their request appears perfectly logical. Yet, their last wishes are somewhat unusual and the journalists of Bild they wondered if it is really possible to be buried in company, even including a dog.
And unfortunately – although it was predictable – it seems that the Kesslers’ wish is difficult to realise. The question was posed to a funeral home in Munich. The German impresario’s response was dry: “In Bavaria (the showgirls’ birthplace and burial place) It is not permitted to bury two people in the same urn”. Alice and Ellen will therefore be forced to separate at a certain point. And to definitively say goodbye to Yello too: “Nor is it permissible to bury a dog in a human cemetery” was the verdict of the insider.
