Wendy van Dijk’s TV career is in dire straits: she was an A-star for years, but is now part of the B-group. She simply has nothing to do at SBS 6 anymore. “Television is very different now.”
Wendy van Dijk has been unemployed on the couch almost all year round: SBS 6 hardly makes any studio entertainment anymore and Hélène Hendriks has been chosen for the return of The Winner Takes It All. It says everything about Wendy’s status that in 2025 she is simply passed over for such a program. What does she think about that?
Frequency
It is now just reality, Wendy also realizes. “I of course left my job for a year. Before that I did some programs for SBS,” she says in Veronica Superguide. “But if you compare it to how much I used to do, yes, the frequency is different.”
She continues: “The television landscape has also changed if you compare it to ten years ago. There are many more reality TV and talk shows and fewer studio programs and live shows.”
Does Wendy miss it?
Does Wendy ever think back to that time with nostalgia? “I don’t necessarily look back on that with nostalgia. It was the busiest period in my life: I combined all those programs with a young family. It was a lot of balls to keep up.”
She continues: “In that rat race I was in, it was difficult to enjoy what I was experiencing. I was mainly surviving. Now I enjoy what I do more, because there is space and time. That is much healthier.”
Occasionally
Wendy is resigned to a quieter field of work, she adds TROS Compass. When asked what she still dreams of, she says: “Staying healthy for as long as possible with all my loved ones around me. In addition, I am happy that I have taken up acting again and I hope to be able to continue doing that, alternating with a nice show every now and then.”
“Like last spring, when I was a narrator in The Passion. I enjoyed it immensely. I go for the best of the best,” she concludes. “I also want to focus more on my own platform, wendyonline.nl.”