Bridget Maasland thinks it is going too far that Johnny de Mol was asked about his private life during the TV campaign for Giro 555 last week. “You have to feel a bit when that is not possible.”
Johnny de Mol is part of one of the most talked about families in the Netherlands. It is in particular his aunt Linda de Mol who is currently under fire, namely because of her love reunion with the controversial Jeroen Rietbergen. The show sections like to have Johnny in front of the camera, hoping for some private confessions.
misplaced
However, it is not always appropriate to ask about it, says Bridget Maasland in the latest episode of The BLVD Podcast. She has heard that Johnny was even harassed last week behind the scenes of the TV action for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
According to Bridget, it’s misplaced. “I heard, briefly from behind the scenes, that Johnny de Mol was asked something personal at Giro 555. Then I think: this is not the time to start talking about that now, because we are all committed to Giro 555 now. So you have to feel a bit when it is possible and when it is not possible.”
Curious
Bridget’s criticism is curious. Johnny asked her own RTL Boulevard last week, the day before the Giro 555 TV campaign, a question during another event that was organized to raise money for the same disaster. It led to an article with the head: ‘Johnny tells us how the entire De Mol family is doing.’
Luuk Ikink during the evening broadcast: “We also asked him how his family is doing after the turbulent time they have been through.”
Then Johnny could be seen uttering three sentences about the situation: “Yes, everyone is fine. Everyone is fine. I think that the past New Years Eve was a great time to literally leave 2022 behind us and especially look ahead.”
Quarrel with Katja
Has Bridget herself ever asked an impertinent question? “I’ve also flipped my mouth, just to put it in The Hague. That was with Katja Herbers. I had just read an interview about her wanting children with her husband. So I ask her if she wanted children.”
And then? “It went completely wild that I should never have asked that and ‘impertinent questions’. And: ‘Do you also ask a man?’ Maybe she has trouble with that or problems, of course I don’t know, but for me it was purely because I had read up on her that I thought: I can ask that.
Sensitive
It differs from person to person what people experience as transgressive, says Bridget. “Yes, sometimes people are very sensitive and it can be very wrong.”
“My intention was not wrong at all, but it can come across that way. So you have to feel a little bit, I think. “
