For years, Angela de Jong was someone who really mattered and was really relevant in the media world. Now we see her appear for two minutes of airtime in RTL Tonight: “My husband bought beer.”
It’s a bit of a shame to see what happened to Angela de Jong. She had a successful career as a writer of media columns, but threw that away for Libelle-like home garden and kitchen pieces. We first saw her rant about licorice laces and Christmas trees, and now she has made a piece with killer words about alcohol.
Gijp’s wine
Angela says she really enjoys a nice glass of wine, but she is increasingly starting to wonder whether it is still allowed to enjoy alcohol these days. She wrote an entire column about that in the A.D.
She uses the men of Today Inside for a nice clickable headline: “How long will we consider it normal for René van der Gijp to drink a glass of wine every evening in VI?”
Five years
Alcohol is unhealthy, according to Angela. What an insight. “When will we be as surprised by someone drinking alcohol on TV as we are by someone sitting in a big cloud of cigarette or cigar smoke? Ten years? Or will that happen in five years?”
At the moment, with the elections approaching, no one is really working on the subject of alcohol, but Renze Klamer’s editors still thought it was a nice reason to invite her to RTL Tonight.
Cigarette
Renze visibly had difficulty with what to actually ask Angela. We hear the AD diva say: “It strikes me, I just noticed lately, like: oh god, there is a glass of wine. I was watching Eyeballs and there was also quite a bit of drinking going on.”
She repeats what she already said in her column: “I think that in five years we will find that glass of wine standing there just as strange as if Frits (Wester, who is sitting next to her, ed.) would light up a cigarette again.”
Two minutes
Angela says that 0.0 beer is suddenly very popular among her circle of friends. She recently noticed this during a party at her home. “My husband had bought a lot of beer, but they all wanted non-alcoholic.”
And then Renze had enough. After about two minutes, Angela’s speaking time was over. Can someone please press a remote control into her palm again?