Bas Smit and Sylvie Meis are two of the celebrities who are interviewed in the new interview series De Geur van Succes by Antoinnette Scheulderman. “These are first class vain people!” is the criticism.
The well-known interviewer Antoinnette Scheulderman can be seen three evenings in a row from Monday with De Geur van Succes, prime time on NPO 1. In it she interviews seven ‘successful people’, including Bas Smit and Sylvie Meis. This somewhat monstrous celebrity worship was promoted yesterday in Evawhere Antoinnette was sitting at the table with Bas.
Big vanities
Johan Derksen has little confidence in it. “Ms. Scheulderman has been lobbying for a TV program for twenty years and out of nowhere, without any experience, she gets a talk show. She can interview, but interviewing for the newspaper is something different from TV,” he begins with a sneer at the table. Today Inside.
What does he think of types like Bas and Sylvie? “Yes, then people are invited with success. They are first-class vain people, because they think they are very successful and that they have a fantastic story to tell. And then she sits and feeds them. I saw a fragment of her saying to Sylvie Meis: ‘What does success smell like?’ Yes…”
Mediocre interviewer
Such Eva Jinek should not pretend that this is special television, says Johan. He finds the interviewer on duty, Antoinette, very mediocre. “She wrote my book with Michel (van Egmond, ed.).”
He continues: “Michel is a great author, but I wasn’t very happy with her contribution. I’m not a fan of her. I think she’s a nice girl in private, but she has also established herself as the best interviewer in the Netherlands. Then I think: yes, that’s not too bad.”
Obsessed
Sylvie says in the program that her strength is that people are intrigued and obsessed by her. “This is really bad, isn’t it? Yes, of course this is bad,” says René van der Gijp.
Johan: “She considers herself very successful. That’s right.”
Wilfred Genee: “She takes herself seriously.”
René: “You shouldn’t do that, should you? What’s the point?”
Wilfred: “I don’t think there is much self-reflection involved.”
Tickling
Johan finds it incredibly embarrassing to be interviewed for such a program. “But René, if you take part in that yourself, then you think you’re great, otherwise you wouldn’t do that. There are names that I don’t know at all.”
Wilfred: “Bas Smit is among them. That’s that boy, that influencer, and he was just telling Eva about it. That not everything comes easy.”
Johan finally: “We’ll take a look and see what it is, but I don’t really feel like having those guys tickling themselves for an hour.”
Fake
There is also criticism on social media, for example from X-influencer MiesBee. “We should now feel admiration for Sylvie Meis and Bas Smit, I understand. Because they work very hard. Criticism of the total emptiness, the fakery and the fact that they really don’t contribute anything meaningful to this world is jealousy. Okay.”
She finds it laughable that even Bas Smit was asked to do this: “Unbelievable.”
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