Linda de Mol gets a big slap on the fingers of television connoisseurs Alex Mazereeuw and Rob Goossens. They think it is weak that the fallen TV queen only wants to respond to the Voice riot in a column.
After a silence of nine months, Linda de Mol will finally say something about her role in the abuse scandal surrounding The Voice of Holland. Then she returns as the figurehead of her own magazine and that includes her so-called editorial at, Linda’s monthly column.
“Weak of Linda!”
Linda will use that column to let go of the Voice scandal again, but she probably won’t get away with it. As involved in the biggest scandal in Dutch TV history, Linda also just needs to justify herself. And that is really only possible in conversation with a journalist not affiliated with her family.
Alex Mazereeuw, TV columnist for de Volkskrant, thinks Linda is weak. He says in RTL Boulevard: “I think it is quite a weakness that she only tells her story on her own platform. That is very safe. What I would have done was just sit on a talk show. Now it’s like: I’m only going to tell it myself in my own safe environment. It is not very strong.”
bad role
Fellow media expert Rob Goossens also has his doubts. “I have a lot of doubts about how she will do it, because we also want to hear from her (…) how she looks back on the fact that she has now got rid of a bastard of that Jeroen Rietbergen and of course also that she and her family had a bad role in the Voice scandal.”
Rob fears that Linda will not answer questions that people have. “She has to point out all those things, because if we still have more questions than answers at the bottom of the line, then it was of course a mistake to tell her story in this way.”
Ali B and Jeroen
Linda had prior knowledge in the files about Ali B and her (ex-) lover Jeroen Rietbergen, but has so far refused to disclose the matter. “There have been questions about the fact that she knew that Ali B was not behaving too well.”
“She could have at least warned her brother, ‘John, listen up, you’re working with someone I hear really shocking stories about.’ She has not done that and as far as I am concerned she can be blamed for that, but of course that does not make her a perpetrator of the caliber of Jeroen Rietbergen and Ali B.”
“Is this smart?”
Frank Dane approves of Linda telling her story, but: “She only does it in her own magazine. Is that so smart?”
All eyes are now on Linda, Alex concludes. “The crazy thing is, of course, that Linda still hasn’t really told her story. It does raise additional questions. The longer you wait, the more it becomes a theme. I think this will be one of the most exciting weeks in Linda de Mol’s career.”
