Arjen Lubach, Jandino Asporaat and a lot of other Dutch people are shocked: suddenly a juice channel with wings has risen. Is star TV going too far with drone images of star houses?
The fascination for the real estate of celebrities is by no means a new phenomenon. For decades, people from sculptures of spacious villas, marble bathrooms and Infinity Polish From stars – whether in Laren or that of the Oerlemannetjes in the hills of Hollywood. A site like Beenageneburen.nl is now being embraced by all media.
Pee
Now that a juice channel with wings has risen, star TV, which hangs with drones above the BN’er houses, people go a big step further. The real estate of stars such as Arjen Lubach, Jandino Asporaat and Ronald Koeman appears to be filmed from the air without their knowledge, and that is according to De Telegraaf become a serious privacy issue.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has since been engaged and is investigating whether Sterren TV has violated the law. Because where is the boundary between curiosity and peezing? Jandino says that the new channel ‘unnecessarily endangers his family’ and the other Dutch celebrities are also ‘furious about this gross infringement of their privacy’, according to the newspaper.
Tap
Sterren TV is primarily a hit on Tiktok with sometimes more than 50 thousand views, the newspaper reports. The videos have since been removed from YouTube, but are now being posted on another video platform. It is actually impossible to stop and according to the Dagblad it is completely known who is exactly behind the website.
In the meantime, the site has placed a reaction to the fuss: “Stars TV has never recognized people recognizably with the drone, as the Dutch Data Protection Authority sets. The only thing that we can charge us is that courtyards and gardens have been portrayed. However, this has not been the core of the discussion.”
Journalistic role
Sterren TV says it fulfills ‘a journalistic role’. “First of all, it is important to realize that well -known Dutch people, through their role as an artist, athlete or presenter, have consciously adopted a public status.”
The channel continues: “They benefit from their fame – financially and socially – and must therefore also accept that there is public interest in aspects of their lives outside of their work. Their home is, to a certain extent, part of it. Moreover, filming houses of well -known Dutch people is nothing new.”
Innocent
TV programs such as RTL Boulevard and Shownieuws also regularly show images of homes of celebrities, says Sterren TV. “In many cases, the celebrities themselves participate or have already shared images of it via social media. A good example is the popular website knownburen.nl.”
“This site posts messages about houses from Dutch celebrities almost daily: what they bought, how expensive it was, where it is, and what it looks like. Often these messages are accompanied by photos of the home – without this leading to great fuss. In fact, many people find it interesting and innocent.”
Drone pirate
Mien from Assen will indeed find it pretty funny to hang a kind of voyeuristic mosquito above the house of Arjen Lubach, but of course that plagued RTL star has not paid just 1.5 million euros for a villa behind meter-high hedges and then ends up via a drone on tap.
All in all, those Dutch celebrities have a new care, although you can wonder what is worse: Edwin Smulders who is in your driveway for three days or a drone pirate who films your roof apple …