Merel Ek is causing annoyance to Evert Santegoeds, one of her colleagues at SBS 6, with the way she announced her pregnancy. “I really hate that.”
Hélène Hendriks broke it as big news on her talk show on Tuesday evening The Orange Winter: the pregnancy of regular guest Merel Ek. There was even a countdown to that scoop with a clock on the screen. A bit exaggerated and strange, says Shownieuws star Evert Santegoeds. “Well, that was announced in a big way,” he says in the podcast Strictly Private.
Sincerely
It is strange because Merel’s private life is normally so closed, according to the Private Boss. “Unbelievable for someone who always keeps her private life out of publicity as much as possible. No one knows who she is with, who the father of that little one is, but we now know that she is pregnant and has been for a while.”
There is another thing that really bothered Evert. “Yes, ‘sincere’ her pants no longer fit, she said. That word ‘sincere’… Oooo, how I hate that! ‘Truly’ trousers no longer fit. But it was easy to guess why that happened.”
‘Don’t know’
If you don’t want attention for your private life, then according to Evert you shouldn’t create such a big momentum. “It was extensively discussed. I thought that countdown was special, especially for someone who never wants to talk about her private life.”
That friend cannot be found on Merel’s Instagram either, he says. “You can also see it on her Instagram, because of course we also looked at that. There you only see photos of herself and with colleagues or something, but never anything of a holiday or something private. She tries to keep it that way. Don’t know.”
Irritation
Finally: what does Merel think of Johan Derksen’s position on maternity leave? She can be seen regularly in VI, but Johan’s theory is: risen, place perished.
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden: “I asked Merel this morning: ‘Joh, do you have some irritation towards Johan because of that comment?’, but she said: ‘I’ll discuss that with Johan.’ That will undoubtedly come up again in VI.’”