John de Mol may be able to get rid of Yvonne Coldeweijer without penalty, namely if she does not fulfill the agreements in her contract, according to her Talpa colleague Evert Santegoeds. “It is a failure.”
Talpa has bought a pig in a poke with Yvonne Coldeweijer. She has been preparing for a half-hour juice program on Net5 for seven months (!), and its premiere has now been postponed again. Expectations will soon be so high that things can only be disappointing. In other words: this will be a flop.
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TV authority Tina Nijkamp, who used to be the boss of SBS 6, thinks she is almost certain that John de Mol wants to get rid of that girl again. However, she says that will cost him a lot of money. The TV expert states that he pays Yvonne half a million a year and has signed her for two years. “So this could cost a million.”
Jordi Versteegden, entertainment journalist from De Telegraaf, would also be done with it. “What a mess there behind the scenes,” he notes in the podcast Strictly Private.
Not a good sign
Incredible, Evert Santegoeds thinks. “Well! The program has been postponed twice and that’s not a good sign, people. I can’t imagine a program with her that you can make for half an hour a day. Hardly anyone participates in it. Most people just say ‘no’ to Yvonne Coldeweijer,” he sneers.
Eric de Munck has resigned as editor-in-chief of Yvonne after a major row. “Yes, of course she has always been typing those texts on her own on a pink background and that is something different from a magazine or a page. Now she suddenly has to deal with the machinery of television, which involves a lot.”
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Yvonne simply cannot make TV, Evert concludes. “Then you have to act as a team player in a team and she is not used to that at all. Now she sees the pieces on the ground.”
Jordi: “But what is the contract like? Can John de Mol just get rid of her?”
Evert: “I don’t know. If it is a breach of contract and she scares everyone away, then I think there is something in there about that. And if it doesn’t make it to the screen due to circumstances or if it stops earlier, then it could just be. There are all kinds of clauses in it. They look familiar to me, like: oh yes, I have a contract, but I actually have nothing.”
Five tons
Jordi thinks that five thousand euros per year is a significant estimate. “Would she really earn five hundred thousand?”
Evert concludes: “I don’t know where that amount comes from. It has started circulating somewhere. It seems a bit on the high side to me, especially on Net5, but if you really want someone, you lure them with a million. I believe it is also a two-year contract.”