Just before New Year’s Eve, Angela de Jong lashed out very loudly at John de Mol, whose TV channel SBS 6 cuddles incessantly with Peter Gillis. “Disgusting and amazing.”
AD opinion dragon Angela de Jong throws a well-filled oliebollen in John de Mol’s face. She finds it very resentful that the media billionaire has continued to cling to his SBS 6 star Peter Gillis over the past year. He was even featured in the Christmas promo of the ‘family channel’. Unprecedented and incomprehensible, she says in a video AD Play.
‘I don’t understand it at all’
Angela really doesn’t think it’s possible. “I find it as disgusting as it is astonishing that he is still being held in the saddle by SBS as some kind of folk hero who has his own reality soap.”
How can John and servants like Frans Klein and René Oosterman look at themselves in the mirror, she wonders. “I really cannot believe that as a program maker, as a program director, as a channel manager, you look in the mirror in the morning and think: we will give him a platform on our channel. I really don’t understand it at all.”
Guido in the breach
Guido den Aantrekker, editor-in-chief of Story, defends the Talpa bobos in the same video. “I think for a lot of people who watch him, he’s kind of guilty pleasure is. I call it the shawarma sandwich that you want to eat once a week after going out.”
People just want to see this, the magazine maker concludes. “You know that it may not actually be that good or healthy, but it is tasty, and once a week it is not that bad. That people also find it interesting to look into the life of someone they don’t know in their own life.”