Private boss Evert Santegoeds and Story boss Guido den Aantrekker have been at the Shownieuws desk for years. A lucrative job with one major additional advantage for John de Mol…
It is of course no coincidence that the editors-in-chief of the two largest tabloids in our country sit at a Talpa TV desk: Evert Santegoeds and Guido den Aantrekker have been catching up in the Shownieuws studio for years. The bosses of Privé and Story are therefore looking out of the box with unwelcome reporting about the family of John de Mol.
Gossip Leaf Tigers
Columnist Jan Dijkgraaf, until recently the biographer of the Meilandjes, thinks it is obvious why both gentlemen are under contract with Talpa. John’s company also signed Bart Ettekoven years ago when he was still boss of the Weekend. All the editors-in-chief of all the major tabloids being paid by John?
Transparent, Jan thinks. “In addition to their generous salaries at Privé and Story, both gentlemen receive excellent monthly compensation for their snacks at ‘SBS Shownieuws’. With this, John de Mol has of course not literally ‘bought’ these tabloid tigers (it’s not all that vulgar), but he has ‘tamed’ them,” he writes. in his column.
One hundred years
Evert and Guido will never admit it, but of course they take into account not to offend John’s family too much. And if they do, John will never admit that that is the reason for their departure from the program. “Everyone understands how that works,” says Jan.
“As has been the case for a hundred years in showbiz journalism (and in political journalism, and in sports journalism). With an unguided projectile like Yvonne Coldeweijer, John de Mol had to approach it differently. Your job at Talpa should not become a schnab, but your job. Your golden cage.”
900,000 euros
John therefore offered Yvonne 900 thousand euros, according to Jan. “And then they would ensure that an editor-in-chief would keep you in check with the program you were going to make. If it was ever the intention that you were actually going to make a program…”
They just wanted to take Yvonne off the market, he decides. “I think that’s what John de Mol’s guys had to do to you from the Big Boss when, without even the beginning of a format, they shoved a fat contract under your nose.”
