Tina Nijkamp is seen by people as a completely independent TV authority, but she too – like most people in Hilversum – occasionally wears a double hat…
It has been an authoritative source of TV analyzes and media commentary for years: Tina Nijkamp. This regular guest of Today Inside has been at the helm of SBS 6 for years and therefore knows how things run. Because she no longer has a top position in television, she can speak a little more freely, but she is not completely objective.
Never anything bad
Some stars are deliberately spared by Tina, she admits in the latest edition of Nouveau. “During the time that my sister was so ill and died, Patty Brard was very kind to me. I would never say anything bad about her, even though I think her program is bad.”
Tina went through a very difficult time around her appointment as Broadcaster of the Year in 2008: she lost her mother, sister and father in a short time. “That of course changed me forever and it also caused me a lot of sadness for years,” she said about this earlier in the podcast Paul’s House Party.
‘You keep breathing’
It took Tina ten years to get over that. “Look, you keep breathing and everything, but only then could I say that I can really be happy again. It made me very sad, also because my sister was really a soulmate of mine. Just like Patty, I think family is very important and that is also where I get my happiness.”
She continued at the time: “For me, success is also that: being happy. And my family played a very important role in this and I lost all of that in a short time. That made me very sad and I must say that Patty is one of the few people who helped me enormously when my sister was also ill.”
‘Very sweet’
What exactly did Patty do? “My mother had just died and my sister was dying… Patty called me immediately when it became known, I remember it very well. She said: ‘If I need to do something for you… I know a doctor in America and he can do that therapy and that.’ She was also very practical straight away, like: ‘What can I do for you?’”
She continued: “Patty is also very sweet. Really very sweet. She immediately came up with solutions and that is so nice that someone wants to help you. There are quite few people who do that. Patty was also at my sister’s funeral.”
Never criticism
So Patty will never be bashed by Tina. Is there another celebrity who never has to count on criticism from her? Yes, she says in the latest edition of Nouveau. “The same goes for Gerard Joling: I am subjective about that. I don’t see myself as a journalist either.”
At the same time, there are also stars that Tina has no compassion for at all. “A type I don’t like is Katja Schuurman, for example. And I think Art Rooijakkers is an interchangeable presenter. I think that today’s presenters also get paid too much for what they do.”
Just like Angela
Tina does try not to completely burn down such an Art of Katja. “I always try to be careful not to make it too personal. I think Angela de Jong burns a lot of people or attributes the flopping of a TV program entirely to a presenter. I would never do that.”
She is very different from Angela anyway, she decides. “People think that I only watch television. I watch television every evening, but I don’t watch as much as Angela de Jong. She watches TV until two o’clock every day, while I go to bed at ten o’clock.”
