A shock golf goes through the showbiz world: Angela de Jong has just announced that after eight years she will stop her daily TV column. “I can now write about Israel and Gaza.”
Because of her daily TV columns in the AD, Angela de Jong has become a well-known Dutchman. The opinion diva was hated in particular in the beginning by the stars, but in the meantime most are already used to her tough opinion. Although Johnny de Mol was grumbling again this week about a critical piece. Anyway: it’s all over. She stops.
André and Gordon
The rumors about Angela’s exit have been going on for some time, but now the bullet is through the church. She confirms her departure as a TV columnist in one long interview With the newspaper. After the summer she starts as a general columnist. “It started to pinch a bit, I noticed.”
“With another season of Max VakantieMan, B&B full of love or farmer is looking for a woman, I sometimes no longer know what to write about it. Because I feel everything I have written down ten times. I sometimes even became grumpy. I believe I have written the most important columns about types like Gordon and André Hazes.”
Iron rhythm
Watching TV also starts to fall heavy. “The iron rhythm of that TV column also gets a bit too heavy for me. I watch television almost every day and the alarm goes off at 8 a.m. that starts to break me up. If I do this for five years, I get very sour and you will read that in my columns.”
So now she becomes a general columnist. “Without releasing TV completely, because if something comes along that touches me, then I can also write about it. The big advantage is that I no longer have to limit myself to the TV. I can write about Israel and Gaza or the care in the Netherlands without having to hang it to NPO 1 or RTL 4.”
Gordon ration
The Dutch celebrities will be happy. “I also don’t think Rachel and André Hazes will be sorry and Humberto Tan will no longer like me. I had already put myself on a Gordon ration. A friend said I wrote about him too often, I allowed myself to write about him for a maximum of once every six months.”
She continues: “At the beginning of this year, John de Mol’s employees asked me to write a special column for a leaf that they made for his seventieth birthday. But I didn’t feel called.”
Still on TV?
The big question is: does Angela still sit in talk shows? “If they invite me I will continue to do that.”
And as a sidekick? “I always find a sidekick a complicated one. Talk shows fall back on it very quickly, but it leads to obligatory conversations, often forced. Moreover: I am not so good in the second violin playing.”