Daphne Bunskoek finds it inconvenient that Linda de Mol lashes out at so many fellow celebrities in her comeback column. “It would have been stronger if she had just kept it to herself.”
Linda de Mol lashes out at countless celebrities in her comeback column, including Angela de Jong, Marc-Marie Huijbregts, Mick van Wely and Yvonne Coldeweijer. The fallen TV queen has never heard of a hand in her bosom, but she has heard of the pointing finger. And that all seems a bit ordinary.
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RTL Boulevard reporter Aran Bade initially felt sorry for Linda when he was reading her column, but that changed very quickly. “I think it’s a bit sad and pathetic for Linda at first, but then it goes a bit in a different direction,” he says in the show section.
He finds that finger pointing very ugly. “She points out a number of parties, the Algemeen Dagblad, other media, ‘the sad intensely false Angela de Jong’ is actually mentioned again, but also De Telegraaf and that there is not as much attention for Mick van Wely’s cross-border behavior as with her. Then I lost Linda a bit too.”
What does Daphne think?
Daphne Bunskoek, presenter of RTL Boulevard, does not understand why Linda has chosen this. “It might have been stronger if she’d just kept it to herself, because I personally thought that was a strong story.”
The victims of Linda’s (ex-) lover are also disappointed, Aran, who is in contact with them, knows. “They find it particularly disappointing that they cannot see her. They want to be able to see Linda’s face and feel what she is saying. That she might have had a little more sympathy for the victims.”
‘It is very disturbing’
AD journalist Marcus den Blanken is annoyed by Linda. “What really bothers me about this story is that she keeps saying to everyone she mentions, ‘Yeah, and they did something wrong, and so did she, and so did she!’ Of course, here in the company there has also been a filthy man. (…) But that does not detract from this case. She brings those kinds of things in.”
And that sneer at Tim Hofman? “That is rather stupid and unnecessary,” says colleague Angela de Jong in the AD Media podcast.
And Marcus: “Many years ago, when his hair was way too long, Tim Hoffman made a stupid comment. He now regrets it insanely and has already apologized for it. He’s done some great research and then you’re going to get that out? It’s pointing all the time. Should have kept it small.”
‘Away with the LINDA.!’
Angela especially finds Linda’s sneer at Marc-Marie incomprehensible. “In this editorial she also gets angry with Marc-Marie Huijbregts, who then yells on television to one of Jeroen’s victims: ‘You have to report it.’ After a story like that, your first reflex isn’t to get mad at Marc-Marie, is it?”
Marcus is now at the point where he thinks Linda’s magazine had better say goodbye to her. “I think she should no longer be involved with that magazine, because that magazine is made for women and she shows that she puts her own suffering on top of it and those victims barely appear in this piece.”
touché
Media journalist Mark Koster believes that Linda does have a point with her sneering towards the AD and De Telegraaf:
