The Meilandjes have again put the Italian holiday home that they renovated in their recent TV series Chateau Meiland: La Dolce Vita up for sale. “That is proof that it is a good thing that they stopped.”
It will come as no surprise: the Italian holiday home of Martien Meiland and his wife Erica Renkema is already for sale. They bought it for 70,000 euros and it is now for sale for 150,000 euros. If they manage to sell for that price, they will at least recover the renovation costs. There will not be a very big profit left.
Holiday home
Erica confirms the sale RTL Boulevard. “We enjoy living here so much that we don’t feel the need to regularly go abroad, no matter how nice it is there.”
Nonsense of course. Everyone knows that that Italian holiday home was bought purely for the recording of Chateau Meiland. Otherwise there was simply no storyline to run another season.
Revenue model
When Guido den Aantrekker brings up the news of the sale Show newscolleague Jordi Versteegden notes: “Guido is currently helping the revenue model of the Meilandjes. I mean: this is why I think it is a good thing that that family has stopped appearing on television.”
Why, then? “Because it just explains that they bought that thing for that series and hey, they’re leaving again. That also applies to that guest house and that will cost them dearly, because that guest house is still for sale.”
Credibility
What does that matter to Jordi? “It matters to me, yes, because that credibility has been missing for me for a while and this just proves it.”
Guido: “But Jordi, you have been in this business for quite a while, haven’t you? The whole showbiz, from Hollywood to Hilversum, is of course almost very often fake, isn’t it? Such a series is based on you enjoying how they renovate such a house and sell it again. Don’t we all know here at the table that that was kind of the format?”
Hanslers
Jordi points out that Monique Hansler and her reality family operate the same way. “Yes, certainly, we are waiting for the Hanslers to sell their Tammies in Spain after the second season.”
Presenter Dyantha Brooks concludes: “Aren’t those wonderful things to watch? We love those arguments, the renovations. Who cares that that could possibly be for the program?”
