Anita Meyer will never get rid of it: her blunder as a singing Maria during the Passion edition from ten years ago. She was reminded again yesterday by the talk show Beau.
Forgetting your lines during a ratings cannon like The Passion: it’s every artist’s nightmare. It happened to Anita Meyer ten years ago, when she played the role of Maria in the TV event. She sang the song Hou Me Vast and at one point babbled: ‘Nobody knows why there’s dragging porridge in the cold!’.
“Ahhh!”
Beau van Erven Dorens touched on it briefly in his last night talk show on RTL 4. “The thirteenth edition of The Passion has ended. This one will go down in history as the wet edition, because it rained. It was really freezing cold. But everything else went smoothly. There was one death, as usual with The Passion.” Then quickly: “A very lame joke.”
Then he starts the fragment of Anita and her ten-year-old TV blunder. Afterwards, Marc-Marie Huijbregts exclaims: “Ahhhh.”
‘That is mean!’
Beau immediately puts his hand in his own bosom. “Oh, that’s mean.”
Marc-Marie: “I think that’s mean too!”
Beau: “But she takes it very well.”
Marc-Marie: “Yes, she handles it very well. haha. But that’s why you didn’t air it because she’s taking it so well!”
What does Anita think?
Anita looked back on her blunder at Jinek a few years ago. “I can laugh about it now. Of course we wouldn’t have tried on that dress during the rehearsals and neither would those shoes. At one point I had to go up one of those ramps, walk up a bit and then I was standing on my scarf. A very long scarf. That made me a little confused.”
She continues: “Then I wanted to say: ‘No one knows why people sleep in the cold.’ And then I started “sleeping” and I could have easily solved it by saying, “There are people sleeping in the cold,” or something like that, you know, but that didn’t occur to me. I thought: well, it’s actually not too bad.”
“Everyone called!”
Well, it didn’t work out. Everyone was talking about it. “Until, of course, the next day everyone called and said: ‘They’ve seen it all!’ And I think they repeated it five or six times with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk.”
She concludes: “I really thought it was an achievement that I had delivered and then you only see that. If you look on Google you will also see that part of me every time. haha.”
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Anita Meijer with ‘Nobody knows why porridge is drenched in the cold’ (from minute 00:45):