Angela de Jong hits back at Sanne Wallis de Vries, who thinks the opinion diva is far too quick with her opinion about Paul de Leeuw. “Yes, hello, NPO 1 is not some kind of playground, is it?!”
It is one of the most merciless Angela de Jong columns in a long time: the one about Paul de Leeuw and his new TV show Hotel Hollandia. That piece really hit Hilversum like a bomb last Sunday and everyone was very shocked by it. In the evening, Sanne Wallis de Vries complained on television; she finds Angela unnecessarily fierce.
Nonsense
According to Sanne, Paul’s program should just be given some time, but Angela thinks that is really nonsense. “Yes, as if it were a kind of playground, NPO 1, on Saturday evenings. And the whole television anyway, right? The whole figuring out and growing thing should have happened behind the scenes,” she says AD Media podcast.
Of course things have to grow on television, says Angela. “You want to see something that of course needs to improve and that is slowly taking shape, but then there has to be something to see that makes you think: well, I think this is worth it and they should indeed expand this a bit further. and this has potential.”
‘Something is happening here’
Sanne points out that other programs in the same genre were not immediately successful, but Angela believes that this argument is used very often.
According to Angela, it’s about potential. “And Kopspijkers had that when it came, Sanne Wallis de Vries. And that also had De Wereld Draait Door, which is always said not to be an immediate success. That also had things that made you think: yes, something is happening here, something really special is going on here.”
Sanne will soon make her debut in Hotel Hollandia.
Tijl responds
What is it actually like to be under fire from Angela as a celebrity? Tijl Beckand is asked about it in Veronica Superguide. She has called him ‘an unfunny presenter with a sign in front of his head’. “Well, I don’t think that’s very negative either. Although I can’t do much else with it.”
He continues: “I sometimes get her pieces forwarded, but I don’t have a subscription to the AD. If I want to read it, I have to pay two euros. If I get a slap on the wrist, I still have to pay for it!”
High from tower
It’s just part of it, says Tijl. “Just kidding: if you blow your words, you know there will be criticism. I would love it if she liked everything I make, but I understand very well that she, like many others, does not like me that much. Only she has a column.”