Irene Moors gives up hope that there will be a sequel to her TV career. While Carlo Boszhard is rocking away at RTL 4, his boss Peter van der Vorst is not interested in her.
Pride comes before a fall: Irene Moors pulled the plug on her successful Sunday afternoon show with Carlo Boszhard in 2015, because she wanted all kinds of other things. Well, RTL thought differently about that at the time. The only option left was a transfer to SBS 6 and there she messed around in the margins for another three years.
TV career over
Nowadays we only see Irene in the commercial breaks, when she has to promote something from the lottery. And she is only 56 years old. Financially independent, yes, but what a disappointing end to her TV career. Her former buddy Carlo remained loyal to RTL 4 and is now one of the most important faces of the channel.
Although Carlo is close to the fire and has a good relationship with boss Peter van der Vorst, he apparently cannot convince the TV director that an Irene comeback would be nice. How clear do you want it to be… And so Irene finally gives up hope of continuing her TV career, she says in the podcast Child of the 90s.
Complicated
It is what it is, according to Irene. “It was very complicated at that time. After fifteen years, I stopped with Carlo on that Sunday afternoon, because we had experienced everything there too. We wanted to make a new start together at a different time. On Friday evening or I don’t know. Just make the last step.”
The management did not like that. “But at that moment my contract was ending and I had not thought about that. Then your contract is over and I was offered a program, but it was a gig program and I didn’t think it suited me. And I am still a maker and not a handyman.”
Own Home & Garden
Irene means Own Home & Garden. “But I had already done that for two years. Carlo continued on that Sunday afternoon, but I had already made that point. I thought: now we’re not going to continue.”
It didn’t do Carlo any harm. Where he is now at the top, she is lying somewhere in a ditch in Hilversum. “For a long time we thought: we still have to do this and that and this and so on, but you know… If we are the only ones who just like it, but there is no further interest from a channel, then that’s the end of it. .”
Not a must
So Peter van der Vorst doesn’t like it. Irene: “We’re not going to make it very complicated. Carlo does very nice programs at RTL and is doing very well and I am also having a great time, so it is not a must. Maybe it will happen again someday, but you know… It was so much fun.”
The presenter, who does not want to call the TV bosses – how conceited, concludes: “That Telekids time was fun, Sunday afternoon was fun, The TV Canteen was fun, but we are quite old now. What else do you want? You won’t get that time back, so all you can do is disappoint, I’m afraid.”