Alberto Stegeman is disappointed how he behaved against Linda de Mol in the recordings of I Hou van Holland. “At that moment I am being attacked by a kind of embarrassment.”
The New Year’s Eve Special Van Holland was completely dominated by the SBS 6 jubilee in 2020. The station then existed for 25 years and that fourth Linda de Mol by receiving a whole procession of transmitter stars in the game show. One of them was Alberto Stegeman and in retrospect the crime journalist regrets a lot.
“A great honor!”
Alberto did not know how to behave in such a large entertainment show, he says In his new book. And because of that he came across as rather clumsy at Linda. “There I am, rather lost in the studio, when Linda de Mol comes to say goodbye to me. I don’t know how to give me an attitude and stamble that it is an honor to meet her.”
Immediately the presenter regretted that. “How stupid, I think. Yes, of course it is nice to speak to her before the recordings of I love Holland, but ‘an honor to meet her’ is also exaggerated. At that moment I am being overwhelmed by a shyness that I recognize from the past.”
No -sell
Alberto actually didn’t want that show at all. “I couldn’t have said no this time. I Hou Van Holland has a theme broadcast in twenty-five years SBS 6 and I had sold the channel manager so often no when it came to participation in other SBS programs that I felt morally obliged to participate.”
There were many colleagues present. “So what can go completely wrong now? The lamps are going and the show is about to start. I am classified in the team of Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, an accomplished studioist. I experience the recordings in a intoxication and I feel everything goes wrong. I feel unhappy in the studio.”
Pretend
It is one of the uncomfortable things that Alberto has ever done. “Now I have to do – as myself – nice for the camera. Being fun on command, directed. It is not for me. The program is broadcast on New Year’s Eve and I will even look at it.”
What did he think? “My heaven. I see myself almost dying from misery on television. Self -chastisement in optima forma. I don’t know the world of glitter and glamor anyway, isn’t my world either,” he concludes.