A stroke of luck for Anna Nooshin. A journalist from De Telegraaf has watched her cringe-inducing ‘documentary’ and decided not to write about it. “She gets enough criticism already.”
Anna Nooshin has a documentary series on Prime Video in which she revels in self-pity: horrible. You hardly hear anyone about it, except her celebrities friends who get paid to say something positive about it. Even influencer Bas Smit, Nicolette van Dam’s husband, has applauded the documentary in exchange for a few cents.
‘It’s terrible’
Telegraaf journalist Kitty Herweijer, the successor of Rob Goossens, also looked at ‘Anna: Status’ and found it cringe-inducing. “I recently watched the documentary about Anna Nooshin. That was terrible,” she says in the media podcast of the newspaper.
She continues: “Anna has been accused of staged vulnerability before and the idea with this documentary was really that she would get over that, but it’s really just that. A sort of orchestrated vulnerability again.”
Made Anna
Anna is very made, Kitty thinks. “I think Anna Nooshin just has a lot of trouble being real or showing herself. I’m not going to say too much about it, because I decided I wouldn’t write anything about it.”
Why? “The reason I didn’t do it is because I thought, ‘She gets a lot of criticism. I like it a lot, but I think I’ll keep it to myself for now. I saw that Yvonne Coldeweijer had made an extensive review of it and I suspect that I somewhat agree with that criticism.”
Arrogant
During the corona crisis, De Telegraaf still went straight to Anna. The newspaper then broadcast its greatest PR low ever: she refused to answer to the camera for violating the corona rules. At one point, even her manager intervened.
Kitty: “I wrote quite a lot about social media and influencers for a while when I was still on the online editorial board of De Telegraaf. And this is really the attitude of influencers in general and certainly of their agencies and management. It really is a very hostile approach to the press. They really see you as a kind of extension.”
fake bitch
Types like Anna just want positivity and go nuts at a few critical notes, says Kitty. “It’s also all so sweet of (put on whining voice, ed.): ‘Hey.’”
“All so very amicable and fake and the moment you do something they don’t like, you immediately have a bad luck or immediately such a fake woman on the phone. It’s really horrific.”
podcast
The media podcast of De Telegraaf:
