The plan is that Suzan & Freek make their debut just after the New Year as coaches in The Voice of Holland, but throw the lawsuits around Ali B and dirty Jeroentje Roet in the works? “No!”
RTL 4 boss Peter van der Vorst has an incredible hurry with it: bringing it back on the tube of Cash Cow The Voice of Holland. All nice and nice with those victims who have fallen there and those lawsuits that are still running, but of course there is just money to be earned. However, that can sometimes lead to a painful situation …
Never never
There is a good chance that the appeal in the Ali B case will burst out in January, if the voice-backing will also take place. And it is also not yet clear whether former band leader Jeroen Rietbergen will be prosecuted. If he still has to appear in front of the gate, that could happen in January. Will the voice-comeback continue as usual?
Tina Nijkamp, who was at the helm of SBS 6 for years, does not think so. She thinks RTL will then postpone things. “Of course, RTL 4 will never and never start at the same time when that lawsuit runs. They really don’t do that,” she said recently.
Hostage
Luuk Ikink is not so sure, he shows in RTL Boulevard. “The dark cloud that still hangs a bit above the program is the lawsuit of Ali B. It could just be that at the start or at the time of the program, that lawsuit will also be. How does RTL look at it?”
Colleague Rob on that: “Yes, well, RTL and ITV say that it makes no sense to speculate about it. I think it is completely right that Tina Nijkamp is throwing it up. At the same time … yes, you will not let Ali B be taken hostage as millions of production?”
Demons
The Voice will nevertheless suffer from negative publicity, says Rob. “In any case, whether there is a lawsuit or not, it will be talked about the demons from the past. The moment you say: we will let Ali depend on when you start, then you let yourself be taken hostage and you just don’t want that.”
He concludes: “I am assuming that we will see The Voice on television in January. When Ali B will have to appear in the courtroom, we do not know at all. If that is in January, then we might combine those items once and maybe not.”