Britt Dekker, Wendy van Dijk’s best TV friend, ended up in a fierce TV fight with their mutual arch enemy Angela de Jong yesterday. “Why the intense hatred?!”
It seems that Britt Dekker went on a mission to the talk show came from Renze Klamer. For the first time in her career, she came face to face with Angela de Jong and that resulted in fireworks. Wendy van Dijk’s best TV friend searched no time quarrel with the dreaded star stomper.
‘He hates me so much’
Britt sat at the table to talk about some event with her horses. “Are you just as tense for that as for a broadcast with Angela at the table?”, asks presenter Renze Klamer.
Then Britt goes straight to the AD diva: “Well, it was very funny. I really had a stomach ache for two days because of the nerves before those tests and then I thought: oh yes, now I don’t have the NK anymore, everything is over and then I saw Angela. Then I thought: oh, I’ve never met him and he hates me so much and then all that stomach ache came back.”
Intense hate
Sigh, Angela once called Britt fake and now immediately thinks that there is personal hatred behind it. “I don’t hate anyone,” she responds succinctly.
Britt: “Oh, no?”
Angela: “I sometimes write a critical column about someone.”
Britt: “That is also allowed, but don’t you feel intense hatred for me and all those people, for example?”
Angela: “No. Then I would read it a little better, I think, if I were you.”
Britt: “No, I read it. I have a subscription.”
Angela: “Why hate again?!”
Valerio blends in
Valerio Zeno, Renze’s sidekick who was rightly lynched in one of Angela’s columns, shouts from his corner in the studio: “In the meantime, I wisely keep my mouth shut behind the bar. I’m going to have a drink.”
Angela: “This is the television world at its best again, isn’t it? If you write one critical column, it is always right that you hate them or something. Do they also suffer from that in political The Hague or not?”
Political reporter Floor Bremer measured: “Well, I think we just saw that it is not always peaceful and quiet there.”
Angela: “No, but okay, those are threats, but that’s not because Eus has written a critical column about De Jonge, that De Jonge thinks Eus hates him, right?”
Floor even more measuredly: “Ahem, I can’t see into De Jonge’s mind, sorry.”
‘Welcome to my world’
Renze: “You just want to clarify: it does not mean that you hate someone.”
Angela: “No, of course not, but you write a column about a program or about a person who is on television. It can come across as more believable at times than at other times. I’ll name that. But hate?! I don’t think I’ve ever used that word in my column.”
Brit: “No. Only it felt that way. That you think: oh, that person really hates you and you are going to meet them now, how exciting, but it has not been too bad for me so far indeed.”
Angela: “That’s why. Welcome to my world too.”
Britt: “What is your world?”
Angela: “Well, that people hate me.”
Britt: “Oh, back to you. Yes, everything hates each other.”
‘Duo Fake & Fake’
Moments later, the two clash again. Britt: “I have to say: I always read all her columns and then I think: I really want to do something with it, but if someone writes all the time: ‘Yes, you are fake, you are not real’ , then you think: what should I do now? Because all my friends recognize me, but we don’t know each other.”
Angela: “I think I used it once, together with Wendy van Dijk: ‘The duo Nep & Nepper.’”
Britt: “What should I do to be less k*t for you, so to speak?”
Angela: “That’s another word I don’t use. Just be yourself. I would say: a little less the act of the girl who can’t do anything and who happens to be lost in the television world, but just who you are.”
Lost girl
Who is Britt then? Angela: “She’s just a very successful woman who isn’t as stupid as she sometimes pretends to be, but who knows how to find her way in Hilversum very cleverly. I believe that more than the girl’s act of, oh yeah, I happen to be lost and I can’t do anything.”
Britt: “Well, I think that about myself, but I have to do it differently.”
Floor: “This is a kind of public therapy.”
Britt: “If someone writes on Twitter: ‘You have a really terrible voice’, then I think: yes, maybe you are right and I should speak softer. But with Angela I think: what should I do? You try to be yourself, but if you are then it’s not good enough.”
Angela: “So you don’t come across as yourself.”
Stressed
When Renze asks if she still wants to talk about her horses, she agrees. “I’m getting all stressed out about this.”
Britt was in the news yesterday because one of her Talpa colleagues lashed out at her. According to Rick Romijn, she is terribly unkind in real life. Britt will hate him, just like Marc-Marie Huijbregts, Dries Roelvink, the men of Today Inside, Marcus den Blanken, Henny Huisman, John de Bever, etcetera, etcetera.
Who harbors by far the most hatred for Britt? Herman Brusselmans. Tip for Renze Klamer.