Heidi Klum Strikes a Pose While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

No, because I'm wondering, are my eyelashes gonna fall off, you know?

Is it like...

Hey, what's going on, everybody?

For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today we're joined by Heidi Klum.

She's an Emmy Award-winning TV host, fashion icon, and one of the most prolific magazine cover models in the history of print.

You can catch her hosting Germany's Next Top Model and in her long-held judges seat on America's Got Talent, which returns to NBC for season 19 this May.

Heidi Klum, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

What's your mindset like going into this?

Are you someone who likes things a little bit spicy?

I don't at all.

And, you know, having four kids, they were always, even if I put pepper on the food, they were like, oh, mom, that's a little hot.

So I've been always cooking and people who have been cooking also for my family has always been super mild for the kids.

So I feel like this is going to be very hard for me today.

I like that you make them nice and nuked because I love them burnt a little bit.

So a lot of people told me so many different things what you should and shouldn't do.

Some people told me don't ever let your lips get to it.

That's a smart tip.

We'll see if we can hold on to that one.

But already I messed that one up.

Did you notice?

So this one is totally good.

And since I'm hungry, should I have a little more of it?

Sure, I'll join you.

Yeah, I mean, this has the slightest little kick.

It's like now my tongue in the front is going a little bit like...

See, you were built for this.

Just a little bit.

You're gonna rock this.

Does this count?

That's good.

That is good.

You're good to go.

So this summer marks your 11th season as a judge on America's Got Talent.

Can you believe it?

And my favorite emotional state of yours is when you're on the verge of a panic attack.

What stands out in your memory as being like the most frightened you've ever been during an audition?

when I had an apple shot literally off my head.

Because they ask us all the time, oh, can you join us?

Come onto the stage.

And I'm like, OK, because you never know what happens.

And the guy is all the way in the audience over there with a bow and arrow.

And I sit there with an apple on my head, and he shoots the apple off my head.

Wow.

I got into so much trouble with my husband, he was like, you're not doing that ever again.

It's fun if you participate in some goofy thing, whatever, but when it's dangerous like that, because things do go wrong.

So I was super terrified with that.

This one here, it's called Scene Double.

Good.

Don't touch it with the lips, they told me.

We got to hit that strategy.

Look at that.

Do you see that?

Pro, total pro.

Just has like a lemony kind of taste to it.

Yeah, a little freshness and then a little kick on it, but not bugging you too much.

No, totally doable.

There we go.

Uh-huh.

What's the biggest mistake you see aspiring models make as contestants on Germany's Next Top Model?

You know, you once said, it's amazing to me how often people are unprepared to perform in a professional environment.

Like, they want to be a model, but they've never walked in heels.

I'm like the show's on for 19 years and they stand there and they're like, oh, let's say it's a Tuesday and they're like, oh, last Friday I bought myself my first pair of heels.

And they walk as if they've never walked on heels.

And then you have other girls

that are walking so amazingly already that I'm like, how are you supposed to catch up with these other contestants?

It's not possible.

So they've just not been in training, you know?

I feel like if you wanna do this job, you have to walk in heels.

Yeah, you gotta walk in heels.

You feeling this already?

No.

You know, I've done this for a long time, so I have a familiarity with it all.

You know what I'm saying?

But it's always a new adventure every time.

Are you ready to move on here to the third wing?

Yes.

All right, so up next, fermented kimchi.

Fermented already sounds interesting.

We're supposed to eat more fermented things.

Fermented kimchi.

We're supposed to eat a lot more kimchi also.

Do you know that?

Sauerkraut, all kinds of fermented things are supposed to be very good for us.

Okay, here we go.

Eat it without touching your lips.

Totally doable.

Oh my God, I can't believe how good I'm doing at this.

I thought already I'm going to be like... You should be proud of yourself.

Yeah.

Well, let's remember the good times, you know, as we work our way through.

Yeah, that's true.

I shouldn't speak too soon.

Shoot.

So your foray into music so far seems to be largely driven by you having the courage to approach artists like Tiesto or Snoop Dogg and say to them, I have an idea.

And they're saying yes to me.

Well, who could say no to you, Heidi?

Well, a lot of people.

And a lot of people have.

I always loved singing.

And I also love when I have a crazy idea and I get it to the finish line.

And it happened then again with Tiesto.

I said, I have an idea for a song.

He's like, you sing?

And I'm like, no, but he's like, oh, what is your idea?

I said, I really want to do sunglasses at night again from Corey Hart.

And he's like, oh, good idea.

Let's go.

And I was like, really?

So it was like that again and again.

So it just happened.

And I was so happy in the end that I'm like, I can't even believe I pulled this off.

My kids, too, they were uber excited about this.

They're like, mom, how did you pull that off?

I'm like.

What's happening now, I can tell you, my nose starts slightly doing this.

You have that?

There's gonna be a little bit of a cumulative effect as you go.

Do you have that?

And my armpit's going a little bit on the sweatier side.

That's natural, you and me both.

Okay, so this one is called?

Los calientes barbacoa.

Los calientes means double as spicy.

Don't touch the lips.

Off the top of your head without thinking about it too much, what would you say is like the most expensive outfit you've ever worn?

$12.5 million bra and $750,000 panty to match for Victoria's Secret.

It was all encrusted with diamonds and rubies and whatnot.

I think I got in the Guinness Book of World Records by wearing the most expensive lingerie set in the history of the world.

All right, Heidi, four down.

We are on to the halfway point, if you're ready.

Yeah.

So up next.

I'm sorry that I'm sniveling like that.

Oh, and make no apologies.

Oh, look, look, this one is a wet one.

It's just, this one is a little on the wet side.

So this one is Meow's Revenge.

Meow's Revenge?

Yeah, a little cat on the bottle.

This is doable.

So for decades, you've owned the Halloween season with your hyper elaborate and imaginative costumes.

What we've done is we've pulled some of our favorite Heidi Klum Halloween costumes from over the years.

We'll pull them up on the monitors over here.

And what we're looking for is the BTS, you know, maybe what inspired the look, the challenges in pulling it all together, how you remember these costumes in the rear view.

And we'll start with one that I love.

Can you pull back the curtain on this Heidi Klum attack of the clones?

So, you know, a lot of the times I wish that I could clone myself, you know, with four kids, TV shows, all these different things, designing, blah, blah, blah.

I was like, I would love to have a twin or, you know, I would love to be cloned.

And I was like, wait a minute, Halloween.

I'm going to do this for Halloween one year.

The hardest thing about this was to find five girls that are my height, have my body.

That was the hardest bit, the casting to get these amazing five girls who were kind enough to be me for the night.

And well, I think I mean, I should have not smiled probably.

Maybe then I would have been better.

But I'm smiling.

It kind of gives it away a little bit here.

Yeah.

And we came out of this box and I wrote on the outside made in Germany.

So I thought that that would be funny to do.

But that was actually very, very hard to do.

Oh yeah, here we're coming from space.

This is probably the most prosthetic I've ever had.

It took from 8 o'clock in the morning, I want to say till 10 p.m. at night, and I put myself in a window in Manhattan so that people could see the entire process.

So it's a glass window, all the artists are working on me, gluing things on, painting, spraying, whatnot, and I'm just sitting there.

From beginning to end, people could watch this because I thought if people are interested in the artistry, they can come by and watch this evolve.

you know, throughout the day.

And then one more for you.

And what I'm curious about this, a certified classic, the worm costume.

Yeah.

How long are you able to maintain a grub form?

Like, do you do a change of clothes after you hit the red carpet?

Are you able to squirm around a party all night like this?

I was so claustrophobic in this thing because you have to think I'm already hours in this thing before I even go out.

So my hands are like tied by the side of me like this.

I'm like in there like this.

My face is glued on to the outside, as you can see.

So I can't even move my face, not one bit.

I'm just stuck in there.

I said to my husband, OK, because I knew I wanted to do all the interviews on the floor because I thought it would be funny.

So I had lights put on the bottom because normally the lights are always up here just for the faces.

And you can't get out, you can't pee.

I couldn't eat or drink anything hours before.

And then after a while, I just couldn't do it anymore.

I had to take it off.

But then I left my face on.

So I just cut it out.

They cut me out of this.

And then they just removed this.

And then I still had this face.

And then I literally looked like bacon.

It looked like a truck drove over my face and it was just like spread bacon.

And it had this like a razzle dazzle like rhinestone thing underneath, which I thought it was funny, like a funny contrast with this worm thing.

Onima has a different kick to it.

Are you having another bite?

No, you're doing them finger licking good style.

You have them like all the way down to the ground.

Well, I'm just trying to keep...

Does this count?

Yeah, of course.

I'm just trying to keep up with you.

You're over here crushing it too.

I'm just trying to keep up, Heidi.

I'm just trying to keep up.

Tongue on fire for me.

I feel like all those taste buds are coming out.

Yeah, they all come alive, you know?

We're going to come alive here.

I feel more alive than I have this entire afternoon.

Right now.

Right now, Heidi.

We're in the moment.

Yeah, I feel it.

From a modeling perspective, what do you see as the pros and cons of no longer living in a monoculture?

You know, there was a time where like scouring a handful of fashion magazine covers, that was the pinnacle of success, but obviously things have changed quite a bit.

Yeah, it's just a different thing is a good bet.

I mean, everyone is always complaining about everyone on social media.

You know, we've learned our

I hear this a lot also from hair and makeup and it's true, I feel it myself.

When you have someone who has just learned how to tussle your hair like this and others who've learned how to really blow dry it from the root and make it really bounce or there's a certain kind of craft to this too that people learn in school and others kind of maybe have just learned it loosey-goosey along the way and also that can be very good.

But I hear them always complaining about it.

How are they getting all these jobs?

How are they doing all these things?

And I always feel like, but that's just how it is.

You know, they got lucky to get this.

So it's like the world is for everyone.

So if they figured out a way on how to get something over you or over me, and that's just how it is.

So I feel like... Whatever.

Whatever.

This is red fag, so this is not the boom chugga-lugga yet, no?

No, that'll be the next one.

Okay, good.

Try to keep it off the lips.

I see, you're doing it too.

I have to tell you, for days I've been thinking, don't get like a crack in your lip, you know?

Because sometimes you have a little thing and you want to pull it off and you're like, I'm doing hot wings, nothing can be pulled off.

Right.

But I love your attitude towards this whole thing.

You seem to be curious about the heat, and you keep exploring it.

I love that.

No, because I'm wondering, are my eyelashes going to fall off?

So despite your full embrace of American culture, I'm sure that there are German dishes that you miss from your childhood outside of Cologne.

What's a knudel?

And can you talk us through how to make one?

Knudel?

Yeah.

Well, there's different kind of knudels, but I love potato knudels.

So you shred potatoes.

you put salt in it and then in order to get the water out the old-fashioned way they would put it in a pillowcase and then they would put it in the dryer so that all the water from the potatoes are coming out and then you you can either put a little sausage in there which i would recommend as the german put a little sausage in the middle and then you put them nice together and then you put in hot boiling water amazing

I love that you always wait for me.

Why?

Because you think that I'm not going to do it, and then you're like, no, I'm not going to do it either?

No, you know what?

I'm a host.

I'm a chicken wing talk show host of the highest dignity, so I try to wait for you.

Ladies first.

But also so that we can have it at the same time, you know, because some of these, they have a little bit of a delay.

Exactly.

So we experience it together.

Okay.

In sync.

I thought buttermilk would do the trick.

Let's see.

Doesn't help at all.

Now I'm getting kind of a weightlessness feeling in my head.

You know?

I'm kind of tripping almost a little bit.

I'm getting hot.

Yeah.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Now I'm getting hot too, Heidi.

Wait a minute.

That one is the kicker.

Yeah, it's the kicker.

How are you doing?

I'm holding on if you're holding on, but I'll admit I'm just barely holding on, you know?

When does it go?

In like five or ten minutes, it'll fade completely.

I have to take this off.

I gotta undo a button, I think.

My mic is in my crotch, is that a slight problem?

It's alright, we got a boom.

We got a boom, Stu.

Best sound guide in the biz.

Don't worry, we still got your sound.

Being fashionably late, overrated or underrated?

Sorry that I'm doing this, by the way.

Don't apologize.

This is terrible.

Kids, don't do this kind of stuff.

This is terrible.

I should be doing this, but I feel like I touched it.

I didn't touch this.

Hold on.

It's terrible.

Sorry.

One second.

Sorry.

No, I'm better.

I think.

Not really.

Nobody is.

But we can just fly our way through it.

Are you feeling better?

Are you feeling better?

I feel slightly better.

What did you ask me again?

Being fashionably late, is that overrated or underrated, do you think?

Everyone always is.

I'm never late.

Never late.

Did you hear that?

Oh my god.

Wait, I have to burp.

One second.

No.

Sorry.

Sorry, it's the buttermilk.

I went to the Cluminator.

This is almost doable again.

Are you sure about this one?

Yep.

Wow.

Amazing, Heidi.

Impressive.

It's the strategy.

She's off the lips.

No, because I also don't want to look like I'm just nibbling on the stuff.

I'm eating those wings, guys.

You are.

You're crushing it.

As a longtime devotee of the Burning Man Festival, how would you describe an ideal afternoon for Heidi Klum in Black Rock City?

Yeah, you need to have a lot of lights with you on your light because you're out day and night because there's all these amazing things happening.

So there's art installations everywhere.

There's amazing DJs everywhere that you want to see.

So you drive there with your bicycle all over the place.

You drive like two miles that way.

There's someone playing.

Then you drive two miles that way.

There's someone playing.

And then you watch the sun go down and come back up again.

All right, Heidi Klum.

Why are you putting this over it?

Whatever you're doing, I'm doing it.

Respect.

This is the good stuff.

That's exactly right.

OK. OK. That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

Yeah.

Cheers, Heidi.

What a run.

Let me see how much you have on there.

Okay, good.

Is it enough for you?

Well, I just want it to be fair.

I agree.

Okay, one, two, three, here we go.

Here we go.

One, two, three.

I know.

I know.

But the good news is, Heidi Klum, you have slayed the wings of death.

And to close things out, what we want to do is a top model challenge of our own that we call the perfect hot sauce headshot.

All right.

So I'll call out a hot sauce that you've eaten today.

And then you just hit us with the first model face or pose that comes to mind when you think about the experience of eating that sauce.

You know, maybe it was a sauce that made you happy and smile.

Maybe it was a sauce that made you want to cry.

Maybe it was a sauce that straight up made you angry.

And we'll start with garlic Fresno, the garlic.

Ooh.

How about seeing double?

Whatever.

What about fermented kimchi?

What about meow's revenge?

What about Da Bomb Beyond Insanity?

Wait, is that the... Yeah, the nuclear.

The nuclear?

Whoa!

And finally, the one you just ate, The Last Dab Experience.

You wanna go for a little run?

Amazing Heidi Klum.

We got to put these in a coffee table book.

And look at you taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.

Now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

This camera, this camera, this camera.

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

I'm on America's Got Talent.

Should we finish this?

Yeah, let's finish it.

Let's finish it.

Well.

What day are we always on?

I have no idea.

It's on NBC.

It's on NBC.

When does it start?

May.

I don't know.

You know.

I know.

I don't know.

Because we shoot everything always so far in advance.

Right.

Yeah.

And that's it.

And you can also, when you're in Germany, watch Germany's Next Top Model.

Unfortunately, here you can't see it.

And I'm on hot wings.

Most importantly.

Cheers.

Cheers.

That was fun with you.

Thank you.

Fun with you.

Thanks for the experience.

I will never eat a hot wing the same way ever again.

I will always be thinking about you.

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