The eel dispute between Jan and Monique Smit is tearing Volendam apart, says show expert Aran Bade. “We made some phone calls today and the fishmonger is also talking about this,” he says.
It is no secret that Jan Smit and his sister Monique Smit have been at odds with each other for quite some time. It seems a bit like Jan really hates her. He has now even removed her songs from Spotify. How can he do that? “The songs belong to the record company and not to me,” said the 36-year-old singer on Radio Noordzee.
Very unfortunate
Monique does not want to go into too much detail about the reason for this dispute. “I don’t want to say anything else about it, except that I think it’s a great shame.”
RTL Boulevard presenter Bridget Maasland finds this silence a bit strange. “It is of course remarkable that you don’t want to say anything about it, while this is of course related to an argument and she is apparently not aware of it,” she says in the show section.
Two camps
Jan’s record label does not want to provide clarity. “The label Vosound and Aloys Buys let us know: ‘Sorry, we cannot help you further.’ Quite unprofessional when it comes to your own label and the rights of the music. And Monique says: ‘We want to stick to the facts and find it very unfortunate.’”
What do the people in Volendam think about it? “We made some phone calls today and the fishmonger is also talking about this. Two camps have emerged in Volendam: you are either for Monique or for Jan.”
Isolated
In any case, Jan does not have the sympathy of the show media. “The disadvantage for Jan is that he is a bit isolated at work, because he no longer speaks to a lot of media. He hasn’t done that for a long time, so we don’t really know why he does this now. He always leaves that a bit open, like: ‘We’re not going to say that.'”
According to Privé boss Evert Santegoeds, one thing is certain. “It is yet another signal that something serious is going on between Jan and Monique,” he says in his podcast Strikt Privé.