Marieke Elsinga’s position at the morning show of Qmusic is starting to become really untenable due to her persistent complaining. This time she grumbles a whole podcast full. “K*T-morning show!”
Mattie Valk did not particularly affect the successor of his former radio mat Wietze de Jager. Initially, Marieke Elsinga went well as his new co-host on Qmusic, until she became pregnant. At first she was tired, then she went to a four -day working week and if she is there, she grumbles constantly over mamading.
Heug and Meug
It came to an explosion on the radio in March: Marieke and Mattie got a hefty fight with each other because she continued to talk about babies, wipes and her broken nights. And that makes him completely sick of it; He already knows that mamage layer now and wants to talk about the other things in life on the radio.
The radiodoos was shocked by the fuss, quickly pretended that anything has never happened, but in the new episode of the podcast ‘Children !!!!’ It turns out that Marieke really makes that morning show on Qmusic against Heug and Meug. She complains for fifty minutes about how difficult to combine motherhood with such an early program.
“I’m so tired”
Marieke says that she is extremely tired because her alarm clock rings at 4.35 hours on workdays. “I am really tired often because I have a bit of a crazy rhythm. Halfway through the day I have such a kind of jet lag feeling through that morning show. I always try to sleep with the children in the afternoon.”
But that doesn’t always work. “If I stay tired or the sleep does not fall at the same time, then I am really more irritable in the afternoon.”
And after the siesta the stress starts about her night’s sleep. “At 9.30 pm the eyes really have to close and that is actually a bit too late, but now in the summer it is soon 9.30 pm.”
K*T-morning show
Marieke recently went out of her plate when Baby Noa started to cry at 9.50 p.m. “Sander didn’t hear it, he was doing things for work downstairs in his office and I was busy with her. I saw the minutes tap. It was 9.55 pm, and I thought it is Sun 10:00 pm and I don’t have time for this, because I have to go to the radio tomorrow morning!”
Because of her stress, the child only became more restless. “Then I was shouting at the top of the stairs:” Lief, sweet! ” But he doesn’t respond, so I: “Sander!”, While I never call him. Really super panicking to nothing. I was not angry with my child either, terrible! “
Adrenaline
That morning show on Q ruined her entire family life. “So I go back to bed and then you also get into bed with adrenaline and the feeling that you are failing. Then I think: oh, how bad, I am not a good mother, why don’t I make time for this? What matters 10.30 pm?”, Says Marieke.
And when she finally comes to work in the morning, she runs into the next problem again: Mattie. So he doesn’t always want to talk about her children. “I think this is quite a difficult thing, because I have been making a radio program for seven years. That is very much about what Mattie and I experience.”
Maternity
Initially Marieke told a lot about her bachelor life. “Now I just got older and became a mother. Those two things have changed my life, but I really want the listener to keep hearing about my life, but it is not so fascinating to tell about your children all the time.”
“We make radio four hours a day, so sometimes an app comes in from:” Can Marieke van Zender, because he is only talking about d’r children! “, And then I just have a story that is about what I did in the weekend, for example. I mention the names Jip and Noa in. (…) Then people think: she is mother, she is mother, bore! “
Cotton wool
It is starting to stand against Marieke. “As a result, I also find it much harder to make a morning show. Then I might talk a little more with cotton wool about some things, otherwise I think: oh yes, then it will be about that again. I also wonder if I will experience enough things to fill a morning show with stories about myself.”
The criticism of listeners is difficult. “Criticism has always been pretty hard, but I find it even harder. The pavement of how people treat each other and how people talk about each other is really fierce. That all comes to me much more and therefore when it comes to: you talk too much about children or not.”
Left and right
How is her friendship with Mattie? “It was put down by the media as if we had a fight and then I think: guys, we are just no longer used to having to have a constructive conversation in the media. (…) We are sometimes talking about politics. Mattie is a bit more right, I a little more left and that sometimes clashes.”
She concludes: “There is zero flexibility in my hours. This summer I do RTL Boulevard and I have to leave home at 6 pm. I do boulevard for three weeks and two at the same time as the morning show. Then I only sleep for five o’clock at night and I am away in the morning and evening.”
It is clear: Marieke no longer has the power for it. Can anyone at Q or RTL relieve that poor woman from her suffering?