The very last column by the recently deceased Joost Prinsen appeared this weekend. His column appears in the AD weekend magazine. For the column ‘Joost knows’, the actor, presenter and singer has answered hundreds of readers’ letters in recent years. He was born in Vught and spent his childhood in Roosendaal and Breda.
The letters in his section were about ‘thorny issues in personal life’, according to the description. His last column sent Prinsen two weeks before his death. Issues such as ‘how do you deal with an annoying girlfriend’ and ‘with a partner with an extreme urge to collect’. Prinsen didn’t turn his back on it. ‘As always, his answers were as wise as they were entertaining. We didn’t want to withhold them from you. We miss him,” the AD editors wrote.
Sharer of his sorrow
He has written for the AD since 2017, but has been a columnist in more places. He also wrote every week for the Noordhollands Dagblad for decades. That newspaper describes his column as ‘an island of perspective.’
His last piece appeared in that newspaper on October 14. After the death of his wife, among others, Prinsen ‘shared with the reader his sadness and the discomfort of being alone’.
It didn’t stop there: ‘When he got tired of his role as a lonely widower, he mischievously used his column as a personal advertisement.’ With success. He found comfort with the former presenter of the NOS JournaalNoraly Beyer, with whom he started a relationship.