Leonie ter Braak’s performance in the King’s Day special of The Masked Singer causes annoyance to Mark Koster, media columnist of De Telegraaf. “There is an inbreeding mentality at RTL.”
The list of candidates for The Masked Singer is full of RTL names. You rarely see Talpa’s faces there, because they are not allowed to participate, and so there remains a circle of well-known RTL people who alternately sing to each other. It quickly gives the whole thing the feeling of an internal company party, where everyone knows each other just a little too well.
Own circle
Media columnist Mark Koster from The Telegraph is annoyed by it. Last Monday he watched the King’s Day special of the program, in which we saw Leonie ter Braak from RTL Tonight emerge from a tompouce suit.
“But the jury members thought of Daphne Bunskoek (RTL Boulevard) and Nikki Plessen (RTL Boulevard), which makes sense if you always recruit people from your own circle,” he writes in the newspaper.
Hints
The hints are also too much about RTL’s own programs, according to Mark. “Often shows that no one has watched, not even colleagues.”
For example, Leonie had a balloon arch. “And it stood for Blow up, the RTL flop she contributed to. Yes, what can anyone worry about, eh? Yet I fear that today a door will be slammed on the RTL boardroom about so much inbred TV.”