So, Maarten van Rossem is really pleased with what Angela de Jong has said about his TV collaboration with Emma Wortelboer. He responds in a seventeen (!) minute video.
Angela de Jong has a strong feeling that Maarten van Rossem is slipping a bit in the twilight of his TV career. The jury member of De Slimste Mens has always opposed light-hearted television, but now he is making a program in that genre himself. Who does he do that with? Emma Wortelboer, the screaming girl of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Not in a favorable mood
It’s really a shame, Angela thinks. “If there is one person who always expresses his (justified) disgust at those stupid TV shows with celebrities who have come to consider themselves a bit too important, it is him. But the sad conclusion after Thursday is that even the most stubborn mind cannot withstand the lure of TV.”
Oops, oops, oops, that is really very vicious criticism from Angela. And that has quite an effect on Maarten, because the poor man is completely annoyed. He responds in a no less than seventeen (!) minute video YouTube. “I didn’t read the message myself, but I heard it was not favorable.”
Positive messages
Maarten finds it strange that Angela is so critical, because his colleagues have told him that there were mainly positive reactions. “That is what has mainly reached me, that there are mainly positive messages. The makers were very satisfied with the positive reactions. I was of course pleased with the positive reviews in the quality press.”
And the quality press? In any case, that’s not Angela’s AD, he sneers. “I’m thinking of NRC and Trouw. They were both nuanced, but ultimately positive and that of course gave me great pleasure. You could of course have expected in advance that Angela is negative, so that was somewhat taken into account. I leave her alone in her opinions.”
‘Very remarkable’
On to the content: doesn’t Angela just have a point? “She has defined a certain idiosyncrasy for herself with regard to me, forgetting that the characteristic of a idiosyncratic person is that he constantly does things that he likes and does not care about what other people think.”
Her definition of his idiosyncrasy is a ‘limiting definition’, according to Maarten. “My stubbornness means that I have unfortunately done something that she does not like, but which of course I do not care at all, that she does not like it. I have failed horribly under her definition of my quirkiness.”
Sunny person
With Angela it is ‘not about the content at all’, says Maarten. “Because in fact the sinful person here is Emma Wortelboer. She did not wonder at all whether the content of the program was interesting, because the positive reactions showed that people found the content interesting. The contrast between the current situation and the 1950s.”
He continues: “But she doesn’t care what the program was about. She is interested that I did something that she did not expect of me, but that is a bit typical when you first say that a person is very stubborn. She doesn’t like that my idiosyncrasy is a bit broader than she thought.”
‘Do not look!’
Angela is typical of the mainstream media, Maarten thinks. “There is an element that is very characteristic of the media, namely: if someone is first built up – how much he likes it, how nice and special he is – then there inevitably always comes a time in the media when it is also broken down again. is becoming. ‘He’s not that headstrong after all.’.”
His advice to Angela? “I have some very useful advice: don’t look. She has a lot to see, because she has to write something like that every day.”