RTL Tonight boss Carlo van Lienden has picked up the phone to call Angela de Jong and apologize to her. “I have no illusion about how people are talking about.”
Wilfred Genee read a private email from Carlo van Lienden on television last week, because in his time at Talpa, this TV maker expressed fierce criticism of today’s precursor. According to Carlo you had to format VI completely (think of a format where everything goes according to a fixed pattern), while RTL Tonight has now failed enormously.
Angela responds
Carlo casually notes in the mail that he is looking down at Angela. He calls her an ‘ad-witch’ in the mail with a ‘spiritual disability’. It will of course be discussed this week in the AD Media Podcastin which Angela still has a prominent role. Podcasthost Manuel Venderbos thinks the ‘bastard’ that Wilfred has read the mail.
Angela defends Wilfred. “Yes, but the reason he did it was of course for what he said about the program and I thought that was quite essential. What I found really painful about it is the qualification about the SBS viewer that was in it.”
Donald Duck
According to Carlo, the SBS viewer ‘already has trouble reading the Donald Duck’. Angela: “Well, I think everyone who sometimes comes behind the scenes of SBS programs knows what the management of SBS thinks, namely that they do not have such a high cap of the average SBS viewer.”
“But to read that so hard, that is a thing. And at the same time when he did it, when he still brought him out, I also had to laugh very loudly.”
Trail
It is unwise from Carlo, says Angela. “I think a bit: make sure you just don’t trail have. Make sure you just don’t have things black and white that could be read in that program. But that mail was also not addressed to the men of VI. “
Was Angela angry about Carlo’s insult? “No, not a second. What I said: I had to laugh very hard. No, yes, you know, I had a certain role in Hilversum and that I didn’t make friends with that and some people could drink my blood, yes, that seems obvious to me.”
No illusion
Then why does Carlo hate Angela? “Carlo van Lienden worked behind the scenes at RTL Late Night with Humberto, so yes, he will not have thought about me very positively for a long time.”
Carlo did Angela also try to get 6 inside at the time? “Yes. I also had conversations with him.”
But, she says: “I have no illusion about how people talk about me behind the scenes of Television Country and this yes, I had to laugh about it and I don’t blame him at all.”
Apologize
Angela says that Carlo called her. “I have to note that a few days after that mail he called, Carlo van Lienden, to apologize. Well, I thought that was unexpectedly Fideel. I wasn’t so used to television country. I didn’t have to, I didn’t pay him at all, but I thought it was unexpectedly courteous and Fideel.”
What exactly he said? “Well, a lot of things. I leave that nice in that conversation. Let me keep it on it. But yes, what I said: his apologies.”
Danger
Finally, what does Angela think that Arjen Lubach has mocked her because of the column in which she drew a comparison between her and the allowance parents? “Apparently I am interesting enough to make a whole item at Lubach. I just believe that it does not entirely benefit his viewing figure, right?”
Did she see it live? “No, I only heard this later. I believe a day later that someone applied me, I believe Alex. So yes, fine, everyone’s opinion. Apparently I am the greatest danger for the left. Fantastic.”