André Hazes Jr. is cashing heavily at RTL. More episodes of his new docusoap on Videoland have been ordered, Private figurehead Evert Sankrediets reports. “They are being made now.”
When we are all inside again in the autumn, RTL wants to significantly boost the number of Videoland subscribers with a controversial documentary series about André Hazes Jr. A series that many people are curious about, because he has been silent for a year. shrouds.
Adele effect
That silence of André is said to be a tactic. He had such bad publicity before his so-called burnout that there was really no other option than to slow down. Now he hopes for the Adele effect: withdrawing yourself for so long that people become curious and your star status increases significantly.
For such an Adele effect you have to be absent for a few years and in April Evert Sankrediets reported that André would only return to the spotlight at the end of 2023. Now he is adjusting his story: Evert expects André to return around the release of his docusoap in October, or else early 2023.
New information
Evert has new information: just before André’s departure to Koh Samui, where he is now staying with his fiancé Monique Westenberg, he recorded music in the Wisseloord studios in Hilversum. “Andre recorded a five-minute mini-symphony together with the complete Metropole Orkest.”
Some of it will according to Evert are used as a tune for the Videoland series. The theme of the song? Forgiveness. It all indicates that there is some kind of happy ending comes where André and Monique are together again, but also that André’s ambition is back. “He can handle it again and of course you can’t go on holiday,” said a source.
duty of silence
André and Monique are currently not allowed to say anything about Videoland, Evert knows. “When Privé searched and found them in America this spring, the two gave the impression of being a happy couple again for a long time. But that should have been hidden until the last episode.”
He continues: “Back in the Netherlands, they were no longer spotted together, but that has to do with contractual obligations with the well-paying streaming service.”
More episodes
At the moment André and Monique are in Thailand. “RTL, the owner of Videoland, is so satisfied with what they have seen so far, including that vacation in America, that they thought: then we’ll add some extra episodes. They are currently being recorded in Koh Samui,” says Evert in Show news†
He concludes: “It looks very much like the fact that they are together again.”