Bas Smit and Nicolette van Dam made it to the British press with their presence at the decadent birthday party of British billionaire Richard Branson. “We’re in Daily Mail!”
The well-known influencers Bas Smit and Nicolette van Dam took part last week on the six-day birthday cruise of British billionaire Richard Branson, with whom she good friendship to maintain. After dropping their kids off at the nanny, they enjoyed a “really cool week” in Miami, Mexico and the Bahamas.
CO2 tokkies
Richard Branson has brought friends and family from far and wide for this decadent, six-day cruise on his floating luxury liner. It feeds the growing annoyance with extremely rich CO2 tokkies. After all, according to experts, his cruise ship Scarlet Lady is a huge polluterno matter how hard Richard tries to greenwashing.
It is a typical example of the fact that the richest 1 percent of the world twice as much CO2 emissions as the poorest half of the population. Transport in particular contributes to the high CO2 emissions of the rich, especially flying (in private jets). CO2 emissions that eventually end up on the plate of the ordinary citizen.
Annoyance
This kind of behavior causes a lot of annoyance among critics. “The problem with very rich people is not that they have money, the problem is the amount of space they take up as a result of that money.” say actress Nienke’s Gravemade, also known as the Stylistologist of the Stars, for example.
And one Simon tweets on the cruise of Richard and his wealthy friends: “The unacceptable face of capitalism, the grinning fool!”
British press
Bas and Nicolette shrug their shoulders. They are especially happy that they made it to the British press. “Just be in Daily Mail ???”, he cheers on Instagram. The newspaper has a detailed report written about the birthday party: ‘EXCLUSIVE: Inside Sir Richard Branson’s birthday cruise!’
There are also a lot of photos of Bas and Nicolette. “Ah, nice – the Van Dammetjes on board”, tweets Story boss Guido den Aantrekker, who does not mean that sarcastically.
One of Guido’s followers is less enthusiastic: “Thought I found André and Monique the most annoying showbiz couple, but they turn out to be surpassed ?. By now, I’m a bit tired of Bas and his handsome babe.”
Bas and Nicolette have during the cruise lots of photos and videos created. A joint group film shows how Bas stands on a raised platform so that he has an extra good picture. Only when the camera gets out of sight does he get off there again: