Marc-Marie Huijbregts finds it disappointing that Linda de Mol has her column in the LINDA for the first time. has skipped. “I have to say that I think this is a bit of a shame.”
Linda de Mol normally writes a column full of this and that every month in her magazine LINDA. However, due to the questionable things that have come out about both Linda and her beloved Jeroen Rietbergen, she is completely in sackcloth and ashes and she can’t even write that column anymore.
enormous suffering
Now there is a column by editor-in-chief Karin Swerink in the LINDA. “Not because I really want to – and certainly not under these circumstances – but because Linda simply cannot. All those years she was not deterred, no matter how she felt, whatever she was going through at the time,” Karin writes in it.
“But the suffering is now so enormous that she simply doesn’t know it anymore. The nightmare she’s been in for a few weeks has only gotten bigger. Because Linda, at the same time as the rest of the Netherlands, discovered things she never knew.”
Marc-Marie critical
Marc-Marie thinks it’s a bit weak that Linda has handed over her column to Karin, he says in his podcast† “I must honestly say that I think this is a bit of a shame, because… Well, what I like so much: I think she likes to mirror Oprah and what is so nice about Oprah, I think, is that she takes you with her in how low or how high it goes.”
He continues: “That Oprah crying on TV of: I can’t lose weight and I’m trying like this, gives such a sense of connection… If only it had been like ‘I can’t this month’, or if she had but said of: ‘I can’t do it.’ She doesn’t have to write a whole column, but I wish she could have seen that this could help her too if she was here… If only she had left it blank!”
Aaf defends Linda
Co-host Aaf Brandt Corstius stands up for Linda. “I have to say in defense of Linda: with such a glossy, the problem is that you have to take it to the printer way before it comes out and so on. Maybe this was really on day one of that whole Jeroen Rietbergen thing and they really didn’t know what to do anymore.”
She continues: “Maybe they really acutely changed that magazine completely. That she didn’t know for a moment: what the hell am I supposed to say in that editorial? What she had put in then might have been overtaken by the news long ago.”
‘Not bad’
No excuse, Marc-Marie thinks so. “No, we are all not crazy either. I think that someone from that editorial team, and preferably Karin Swerink, should have had the presence of mind of: leave it blank! I would have found that more interesting. Just don’t write anything. I think that is a missed opportunity.”
“I think it’s so good of her that she tries to be really honest. If you don’t know for a while, just say it,” says the comedian.
Mascara
In fact, Linda just needs to be a little more Oprah, Marc-Marie thinks. Then Aaf says: “But I don’t think Oprah has ever had such a scandal. It’s not so natural that she couldn’t lose weight.”
Marc-Marie: “No, never so personally. She did mention abuse in her childhood and family who suddenly started talking about it. But not this kind of thing.”
Does he also think it is a shame that Linda is not on the cover this month? “No, I understand very well that she will not stand on it with mascara running out. I understand that very well.”