Catherine Keyl finds the well-known Dutch people participating in the Marieke Elsinga flop Alles is Muziek very sad. “They must be paid a lot to participate in this!”
The celebrities who participate in the Marieke Elsinga flop Alles is Muziek put their reputation at risk for a few pennies: they parade across the screen like complete fools while ramming shuffleboards, smashing coke bottles and emptying bags of chips in their mouths. It’s just shocking, according to Catherine Keyl.
Catherine critical
Catherine cannot believe that there are celebrities who lend themselves to this. “I watched Alles is Muziek by Marieke Elsinga, and I also zapped away. It was a drama! I thought: they must really get paid a lot to participate in this. It was too embarrassing for words,” she says in the Story.
Despite all the commotion, RTL 4 has decided not to cancel Marieke’s show, but to shorten it. And that means that Monique Smit, Henry Schut, Klaas van der Eerden and Tommie Christiaan will be thrown to the lions tonight. They, too, will be bashed by critics who think this is dimwitted television.
‘It’s moronic’
Those bashing critics are right, according to Catherine. “Hitting a bottle to make music, isn’t that moronic?!”
As a celebrity, you’d better participate in something like Het Perfecte Plaatje, she advises. “The fact that Het Perfecte Plaatje does score has to do with the fact that the well-known participants have to perform. There is an element of surprise in The Masked Singer and Make Up Your Mind. That’s why it scores. People have something to guess at home. And the costumes are amazing.”
‘So bad’
Catherine receives support from Hans van der Togt in the Story. The former Wheel of Fortune star nowadays has so little to do that he watches even more TV than Angela de Jong, but he really skipped Alles is Muziek.
Hans: “I have only seen a few previews of Marieke Elsinga’s new programme. I thought that was so bad that I didn’t watch the show. I myself am still asked three to four times a year to appear in a program, but I always say no to that.”
Image damage
Participating in a TV show that is considered infantile can damage a celebrity’s reputation. For example, it can lead to the loss of credibility and respect, as happened with Irene Moors. Two weeks ago she was hysterically ramming on a shuffleboard in the premiere of Alles is Muziek.
A decline in popularity can affect the career prospects of celebrities. It doesn’t matter much to Irene – she already works part-time behind the geraniums anyway – but it has more impact for younger talents. The celebrities who are in the upcoming episodes will therefore be very disappointed by the decision to continue the show.