It also takes some getting used to for Chantal Janzen. Because of all that strange behavior of Linda de Mol, some have seen her for some time as the biggest female TV star in our country. What does she think about that?
Chantal Janzen has not yet really found her way as a TV presenter. Most of her programs have flopped and that raises the question of whether she should not be better advised. According to many, she has the potential to become the new TV queen of the country, now that Linda de Mol has set her own throne on fire.
Chantal about Linda
It will be quite unpleasant for Linda: she was once related to Chantal – she had a relationship with Johnny de Mol for a while – but since Chantal stole Linda’s shows, the ladies have been diametrically opposed to each other. And now she is also threatening to steal the title of TV queen.
Robbert Rodenburg, the Rik Felderhof of YouTube, asks Chantal in the talk show Open Card: “You have often been compared to Linda de Mol for a very long time. How do you feel about that?”
Absolutely fine, says Chantal. “I don’t mind that at all. She has done and continues to do so many wonderful things. And anyway, it is a family that I have known for a long time, of course.”
‘Annoying? No’
Doesn’t she hate being compared to Linda all the time? Does she experience it as annoying? “No never. It’s not about her or what she is like as a person, because most people don’t actually know that. Look, a viewer never knows exactly what you are like or what I am like. Never exactly, because they don’t experience you in private.”
She continues: “But when people make this comparison, it is about your work. And I would really find it very strange if I said: ‘I don’t want that at all.’ No, that… No. And you just do a lot of the same things, because the media landscape is of course not that big.”
The same pond
You simply end up fishing in the same pond, says Chantal. “We make entertainment and then you can be on TV, you can be in theater, you can start a magazine, you can write a film, you can make a series, so it is not surprising that you are compared.”
She continues: “I mean: I can also start a chip shop, that is something completely different, but that is not in our media landscape what we do. So I think it’s normal that people compare that.”
Strong criticism
Linda is known to have her toes reaching as far as the Wadden Sea. Can Chantal handle criticism well? Yes, she says. “I can always do something with it. (…) I never feel like: hands in my ears and not listening. I think you learn something from everything.”