Angela de Jong wonders whether 33-year-old Mike from Winter Vol Liefde is not secretly normal gay is. “I wonder if he even wants a woman,” the opinion diva whispers in her podcast.
It is obvious that RTL 4 is targeting candidate Mike and his mother Monique as the trendsetters of the new season of the daily dating show Winter Vol Liefde. Mother Monique is a rather eccentric figure and imposes herself to such an extent that critics such as Jan Dijkgraaf and Yvonne Coldeweijer think this is really completely scripted.
‘Don’t need a woman!’
Whether scripted or not: mother Monique is in any case frequently discussed and that is the intention of RTL. “That mother also says: ‘This is completely my type.’ I think she chooses the women!”, shouts Manuel Venderbos in the latest episode of the AD Media Podcast.
Angela de Jong is sure. She answers: “Yes, but Mike also does this for his mother. That’s clear, isn’t it? Mike doesn’t really need a woman himself.”
Maybe gay
Then Angela starts whispering, as if she’s saying something forbidden. “I wonder if he even wants a wife.”
Colleague Gudo Tienhooven: “Maybe a man.”
Manuel: “Yes, that’s what I thought too, perhaps at first glance.”
Angela: “In-the-closet vibes, but that doesn’t matter, he has to know it all himself. We don’t care what he is.”
‘It doesn’t matter’
It is indeed fine if Mike is gay, according to Manuel. “No, it doesn’t matter, but it would be so sad that because that mother so clearly wants a daughter-in-law and grandchildren, that she just goes for that and can’t be herself.”
Gudo: “You spend all the time watching when cracks appear between mother and son. At one point she came by with a snowmobile and a blanket to have a picnic.”
Over the top
In any case, that specific scene was 100 percent staged, according to Angela. “That was really over the top. You don’t believe this, do you? Sorry, but this was so clearly staged.”
And finally: “By the way, don’t take ski lessons with Mike, because a ski instructor who teaches you to ski without gloves on is really no good. That’s really not possible. It is even life-threatening.”