In retrospect, Rogier Smit (51) is very disappointed that he and his ex Frank Jansen switched from SBS 6 to RTL 4 in 2020. “I did not fight to stay with SBS 6,” said the former reality star.
It is RTL’s biggest bad buy of the decade: the TV duo Frank & Rogier. Shortly after Frank Jansen and Rogier Smit came over from SBS 6, they ended up in a marital crisis and started to fight out their marital quarrel in the media in a vulgar manner. Ultimately, their contract was terminated and they saw their TV career fail.
Fighting for SBS
Nowadays Rogier is only in the news when he has done something crazy again. For example, he recently lashed out at Rob Jetten and shouted that a homosexual cannot be a good politician at all.
Now he muses in the Party about how his TV career ended. “I didn’t fight anymore. Normally I have temperament and fighting spirit, but I was completely numb. I didn’t fight for my program, even though it was my baby. I didn’t fight to stay at SBS 6, even though I finally really felt at home there.”
Human and warm
Especially the departure from SBS 6 keeps Rogier awake at times. “In retrospect, that is my greatest pain: not what was done to me, but that I did not defend myself.”
Why did that station feel like home? “Because it was human. Warm, without elbowing. There I was allowed to be myself. It was the first place where I felt: I am not used, I am seen. Everything was allowed and nothing had to be done. I have never felt as free as there.”
‘I’m still alive’
What phase is Rogier in now? “In the ‘I’m still alive’ phase. To be honest, that’s already a win. I’m not back on TV, I haven’t recovered financially, I don’t have a new palace. But I’ve managed to get myself a little closer again. And that is the foundation on which I have to continue to build.”
He concludes: “I am not on the eve of a comeback and I am not on the edge of the abyss either. (…) I believe that my story is only finished when I decide it is finished. And I am far from that point yet. Don’t expect me to walk in from the back. I will come back through the front door, when I am ready.”