After fifteen years, Angela de Jong says goodbye to her television column. Not with fireworks or a final media, but with a tame love letter on her TV. Hopefully not a harbinger of what is to come …
Angela de Jong closes her last today Angela watches TV-Column off with an ode to the medium that made her great: television. No analysis of the Oranjezomer, no sneer to Linda de Mol, not even a last swipe to Gordon. “I left the TV for once. Just to see how that is.” And that was it then.
Final chord
Angela uses her last piece for a thank you on the device that provided her with ammunition for fifteen years. “Today is an ode to that one great love that has been with me for 49 years: the TV itself.”
She warns herself: “I have to be careful how I write it down, because before you know it, RTL Boulevard ticks another death serious piece about it: Angela de Jong has an open relationship. That happened before, as a result of a joke in the smartest person.”
Sharpness and irony
The last part of Angela is strikingly mild for a columnist who owes her reputation to sharpness, irony and occasionally a publicity chainsaw.
She only looks back on programs that she did find the trouble: worries, the dust drops, a false start, winter full of love, the soap of Gerard Joling and the diptych back with Dutchbat. “If I list it so much, I’ll get homesick.”
One life
And then it is ready. She closes an open door, namely that of René van der Gijp: “You only have one life.”
It is hoped that Angela’s new general column will flame a little more than this final piece, but one thing is certain: television without Angela will be just a little less fun …