Private boss Evert Santegoeds believes that Marco Borsato should be able to continue with his musical career, but would like to hear from him again about the dirty messages he sent to a minor.
It is striking: Marco Borsato has been acquitted of abusing an underage girl, but the texts he sent would be more than enough to get him canceled in the current climate. In fact, Thijs Römer ended up in jail for sending nasty messages. Yet many believe that Marco can achieve this.
As quickly as possible
Marco sent his underage complainant satisfaction tips and compliments about her buttocks, but according to people like Tina Nijkamp we should turn a blind eye to this because he has been acquitted of abuse. And then you are no longer allowed to make moral judgments, as Angela de Jong does, for example. She thinks Marco is a pervert and a coward.
Private boss Evert Santegoeds has mixed feelings. “Marco has simply been acquitted and that’s it. Only Angela de Jong still has major problems with that, but then her colleague starts typing up the entire interview. He thought it was nice, I think. Marco has to get back to work as soon as possible,” he says in Strictly Private.
Nice appetizer
Evert does think that Marco’s interview with good friend Sergio Herman is not enough. “It’s a nice appetizer to stay in cooking terms, but it is of course not the big interview that everyone is waiting for and that Marco is not waiting for, I think, because as soon as he starts giving that, everything is stirred up again.”
The magazine maker emphasizes: “What has stuck around are those very strange text messages or apps to a minor, but he was not charged for that. Only in terms of image it is bad, so maybe he will say something about that again.”
Tile wisdom
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden thinks that Marco will choose the Linda de Mol method: remain silent and pretend that nothing is wrong. “Because he said so clearly yesterday in that conversation with Sergio: ‘I don’t want to talk about the content of that process anymore.’ All kinds of tile wisdom, right?”
Evert: “Yes, also like: ‘I hit the edge of the stamp.’ What is it all about again?! That’s Marco. It is very woolly.”
Pick up thread
By the way, Evert does not think that Marco and his ex-lover Leontine Ruiters will ever get back together. “I don’t think so, no. If it has grown like this, then perhaps it would have been made whole: we are going to pick up the thread where it once broke.”
He concludes: “I believe Leontine has a date every now and then. That will probably happen again with Marco, right?”