Eva Jinek is pretty done with the criticism of her incredibly long vacations. According to her, it is a false representation of reality. “I see it as a frame of someone,” she says.
Eva Jinek was brought in at RTL 4 as if she would become the permanent face on the late evening. She didn’t even rule out making talk shows for six months in a row. “I am capable of anything, anything. I don’t come here to do my shifts, but to succeed. To make my point, to accomplish something.”
“Part-time too!”
Two years later, Eva’s mega vacations are infamous. “A heavily overpaid part-time TV presenter”, Story boss Guido den Aantrekker recently called her. And Bert van der Veer cannot avoid it either: “Eva makes fewer shows than was intended when she signed her contract.”
Albert Verlinde believes that Eva is generously paid for the number of hours she works. “Eva is the most expensive of the bunch and then it’s part-time too. Can you imagine what it would have been like if you had had to pay it in full? Where have the times gone when a Paul Witteman worked his way through the mud and sat on TV every night to do a talk show?”
And what does Johan Derksen think? “They are all princes and princesses in the TV world.”
Eva is disappointed
Eva is getting really annoyed by all this criticism. According to her, it is completely unjustified. “I see it as a frame of someone. At RTL I work even more than I did at the NPO,” she sighs NU.nl†
People apparently underestimate how hard work a daily talk show is, continues Eva. “I certainly don’t want to complain about it, but I spend more hours with my own talk show. That starts early in the morning at 7:30 am and ends late at night.”
heavy subjects
Lately there has also been a lot of attention for the low viewing figures of Eva. According to Angela de Jong, this is because Eva just has very boring guests. The talk show host himself points to the fierce years that we have had. “First it was corona for a very long time and then the war in Ukraine.”
That does not make a viewer happy, according to Eva. “A talk show should really be like a magazine: a mix of all kinds of things and a good atmosphere. You catch up with people before they go to bed and you also give them something nice at the end. But since I switched to RTL, current events have put a heavy stamp on everything.”
‘I’m good at RTL’
Now that changes a bit, Eva notices. When she returns from her holiday sometime in the autumn, Eva can finally prove whether she can score with that magazine formula. Or would the viewer simply prefer Today Inside?
One thing is certain: Eva is not eager to fill the seven o’clock lock of NPO 1. There, Khalid & Sophie is one big ratings drama. “I’m in very good shape at RTL.”
