Angela de Jong seems to stop her controversial TV column in the AD faster than expected. She now hurt a lot on a departure. “It’s not surprising that I want something else after eight years.”
It has been in the air for a while: the approaching farewell of Angela de Jong as an AD columnist. She has been constantly talking about it for a while that she wants to make a political column and that she wants to walk around the Binnenhof for that, but the period she mentions for that changes per interview. How long does it keep it up?
No more gross
Angela is really getting tired of the showbiz. For example, she announced that from 2026 she no longer wants to write about Gordon. “You have agreed that you will no longer use that name next year?”, Wilfred Genee now asks her for confirmation in the program In the corridors.
She then agrees: “Well, I just think I have written enough about the Gordons of this world at some point when I am 50.”
Politics
Albert Verlinde is also aware of Angela’s next step. He says, “You are going to do politics anyway? You really want that.”
Wilfred: “No, you wouldn’t do that, you promised here.”
Angela: “Well, I would really like politics. What I always think is that I could well write about politics in the same way as I write about television. So that you are talking more about the gap between politics and what I see around me at home, say.”
Not so long
Then Angela comes with a new interpretation of DANE she wants to make the switch. She says: “I think that I should also be a lot in The Hague and my children are just as old as yours, they don’t live at home for very long, so that will come afterwards.”
‘Not so long anymore’. Wilfred is surprised: “But you said then, when we last walked here, that everyone has to be afraid of you on TV until he was 65, but that is no longer the case?”
After eight years
Angela admits that she really wants something different. “I think it is not surprising after eight years that I think about something I want to do next.”
Wilfred: “Why did you say that last time not?”
Finally, Angela: “Yes, but television remains my great love and I don’t let that go completely.”