It was a legendary bad interview: the completely uncritical conversation that Lex expressed on the red carpet with Linda de Mol. “I found that really difficult as a person,” said the reporter.
It is RTL Boulevard presenter Luuk Ikink himself who has endorsed that there are still many questions open about the prior knowledge that Linda de Mol had in the Voice scandal. “You still expect the interview with Linda. That must come once at some point of course, “said the presenter earlier.
Linda’s prior knowledge
It is one hundred percent certain that Linda had prior knowledge about the misconduct of Ali B – she admitted that herself – and it is dubious that she has not notified her brother John de Mol about that. Moreover, her sweetheart Jeroen Rietbergen indicated that Linda already knew about his misconduct, something she later denied.
Prior knowledge is worth extremely much in these types of things, because you can prevent any new victims. Catherine Keyl therefore thinks it is necessary that Linda gives openness: “It is time that Linda just tells what exactly is going on.”
Trembling lex
Since Luuk, the Father Familias From RTL Boulevard, argued for a critical interview with Linda, the expectations were high at the end of October. Then Linda was about the red carpet of Gooische Women and found Lex expression, the once brutal reporter of RTL Boulevard.
Lex then started stammering and got no further than the comment: “The entire journalism in the Netherlands is there! You come over that red carpet, then you might all get difficult, stupid questions. “
Linda: “Not one!”
Not one
Indeed: not one critical question. It is so bad with the Dutch Showmedia and so scared people are apparently for the powerful De Mol family. Not one critical question. Even Linda was a bit surprised about it. Private boss Evert Santegoeds, by the way Mol-Lakei, found the attitude of Lex laughable.
How did Lex think it went? After four months he talks about it The Persstribune on NPO Radio 1. “At Linda I found it difficult because I had the feeling … Look, she did not talk to the Dutch press for months, perhaps for years and then I thought of: yes, I have to do at a time that she Her party is celebrating … ”
“As a person tricky”
Linda celebrated the premiere of Gooische Vrouwen. “I thought: do I have to go to The Voice with a really difficult story, difficult questions about her partner Jeroen Rietbergen and the whole situation? From: Do I have to ask that now? As a person I found that really difficult. That turned out there on the spot. ”
Completely unsuitable for this profession. They should have sent someone else there, preferably Eric De Munck. Presenter Margreet Reijntjes: “You could of course have thought that in advance that you found that uncomfortable.”
A kind of plan
Yes, Lex agrees. “I thought that that day and with the final editing and editor -in -chief and everyone discussed. We had a kind of plan and then you stand there … The plan was that … Look, Jeroen Rietbergen made the film music and he is therefore the band leader of The Voice who had to leave there because of cross -border behavior and also admitted everything. ”
“This was his first job in public again as a composer, so I could easily have made the link with Jeroen, from: ‘This is his first job again and this is your friend … at least: is it still your friend? ‘ That was not yet known. I could have made it very easy for myself, but I also found it very difficult. “
‘I understand the criticism’
Doesn’t Lex himself think he’s just a weak bite? “As a professional I understand that criticism and that criticism is right, but as a person I am not sure if I would have wanted and dared to do so at that time.”
“So I can often do that. I can often think of: I am just a journalist, program maker or interviewer and I just ask a question. From: I’m about the question, you about the answer, Let’s go. “
Precarious subject
Why was Lex in it different then? “Yes, I think that’s a good question. It was such a precarious subject. On the one hand, Linda is also affected by Jeroen and the whole situation, but it is also: what did she know and what did she not know? And so on. ”
“I found it very difficult to immediately go in with a stretched leg.”