Former make-up artist Jelleke van Rijkind is furious that Matthijs van Nieuwkerk has signed a contract with RTL 4. “I find this disrespectful and arrogant,” she fumes in de Volkskrant.
Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s move to RTL 4 is generally received with understanding, because how long on earth can you wait for some investigative committee to kick in a hundred open doors in a generalized report on the working atmosphere at the NPO? That thing was supposed to be there in the summer, now they say January.
Disrespectful and arrogant
In the meantime, Matthijs has been on the penalty bench for more than a year, but according to some critics, RTL 4 and Matthijs should have waited even longer. And his former make-up artist Jelleke van Rijvlucht, now a GroenLinks employee, also has that opinion. Matthijs put her in the trash because her hairdryer did not work well enough.
Jelleke chimes in de Volkskrant, the newspaper that changed Matthijs’ life: “I find this disrespectful and arrogant of both RTL and Matthijs. It surprises me from RTL, especially considering the history with The Voice. And if Matthijs had really felt shame and regret, he would have waited for the results of the Van Rijn Commission report.”
Pointless conversations?
After the DWDD riot broke out, Matthijs met with Jelleke several times to talk about her experiences. “I now get the feeling that the conversations with him were completely pointless,” she now fumes, adding to X: “If you really feel remorse and shame, you wait for the investigation.”
Yet we seem to know everything by now. Jan Slagter announced yesterday in Beau that no new facts will come to light in the investigation – he has inside information – and Patty Brard asked in Khalid & Sophie what could be in that report that would force Matthijs to stay at home even longer.
Soul paws!
Johan Derksen is getting a bit tired of the whole Jelleke thing, he says Today Inside. “Now he went to talk to that woman and went for a walk at Artis and so on and now she is angry again because he is on TV before that report. Who does she think she is?”
Colleague Wilfred Genee: “Well, someone who suffered a lot from it and stayed at home.”
Johan: “Yes, they are all souls! They get a stage!”
Chic
René van der Gijp thinks that RTL would have been better off waiting another month. “That makes sense, doesn’t it? That you just wait for the investigation? Now you basically indicate as RTL and Matthijs: we care about that whole investigation, dude. Have fun with it.”
Hélène Hendriks: “It would have been classier if they had waited.”
René: “There were more than 50, right? How long have you been on TV now? You’ve had 50 reports of behavior that someone else didn’t like, right? Isn’t it really a lot of people?”
It’s all bullshit
Johan thinks it was nice. “I know how something like that happens, right? By listening to those kinds of people we create mediocrity in the Netherlands. They are all whiners and that lady thinks she is so important that he has to wait months before he can put his head on TV again because he has a tantrum.”
According to him, that report will not change anything. “Yes, but that report is a report like so many others. Meaningless reports, fluff reports made by people who have no authority. I just think that the dissatisfied crowd there, the mediocrity that couldn’t keep up…”