Emma Andersson
Encyclopedia
Emma Andersson is a Swedish television personality and singer. She is married to Detroit Red Wings player Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik “Zäta" Zetterberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey center and alternate captain currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

.

Career

Andersson first claimed to fame in Expedition Robinson 2001
Expedition Robinson 2001
Expedition Robinson 2001, was the fifth edition of Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries, to air in Sweden and it aired in 2001. The major twist for this season was the tribal swap that took place after the duel in episode three. This season also saw the first...

 as one of the contestants. One year after her television adventure, she launched a singing career releasing the music album Who I Am. Among her most known songs are Weightless, a duet with Bosson
Bosson
Bosson is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He first gained nationwide fame in Sweden when he imitated Michael Jackson in the first season of Sikta mot stjärnorna, performing Black or White and winning his semi-final...

, though the album never became a success.

In 2003 she entered a special "Best of the best" Expedition Robinson with the most popular former contestants, which she won.

Andersson got an offer to host Dolce Vita on Kanal 5
Kanal 5 (Sweden)
Kanal 5 is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people...

, which she took. The show ran for a couple of seasons. Emma has since done a number of different shows on Kanal 5 before moving to the USA with her fiancé.

Controversy

In 2002, Emma Andersson participated as an interviewee in the Swedish TV4 show Ursäkta röran, Vi Bygger Om (English: Pardon the mess, we're redecorating). The show made headlines due to a segment called "the Swedish Nazi-reference championship." The singer and former Expedition Robinson-star was fooled into an interview during which the program leaders made over 50 Nazi-references and observed her reactions. These included jokes such as naming the show they claimed to work for "Treblinka", claiming that Leni Riefenstahl was a modern director of music-videos, that Joseph Goebbels was a DJ whose music resembled Andersson's, and dozens of other references to the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Throughout the interview, Andersson wore a T-shirt with the text "Treblinka - Class of '45". Andersson didn't seem to react at all on tape. She later claimed that her reactions were edited out in order to make fun of her

Personal life

She married professional ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik “Zäta" Zetterberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey center and alternate captain currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League...

 in Mölle, Sweden on 23 July 2010. They live in Detroit, Michigan and have a summer house on Alnön
Alnön
Alnön is an island in the Gulf of Bothnia just outside Sundsvall in Medelpad, Sweden. It has an area of 65 km2 and a permanent population of 8,298 , although its summertime inhabitants are about twice that number...

 in Sweden.

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