Linda de Mol’s daughter suffers from the crazy antics that Paul Römer does to draw attention to his nephew Thijs Römer’s theater show, TV authority Tina Nijkamp fears.
The media world is full of nepobabies, children of famous Dutch people who, through their parents’ connections, are given a platform that they would probably never have achieved on their own. The current SBS 6 show Het Oranjecafé is a textbook example of this: a theater show with the children of Heleen van Royen, René van der Gijp and Linda de Mol.
Rhetorical question
Three big names, three children, one stage on mass medium SBS 6. Whether they would have come there themselves without their parents’ surname is a rhetorical question. That’s why many people are annoyed by nepobabies.
There is now another fake rumor going on, because TV boss Paul Römer is doing everything he can to draw attention to his nephew Thijs Römer. The antics he does for this – he uses his column on NPO Radio 1 to promote Thijs – are so questionable that Tina Nijkamp is concerned about fake babies like Noa Vahle.
Distrust
Tina understands that people at home are bothered by nepobabies. “Paul Römer proved with one performance why this distrust is not surprising at all,” she writes The Telegraph.
That Paul simply abuses his position to benefit family, according to the TV authority. “Free advertising on the most serious radio station in the Netherlands. Why? Because he happens to be Thijs’ uncle.”
Nepobaby
Thijs’ performances were sold out immediately after Uncle Paul’s broadcast. “The free advertising on Radio 1 probably helped with that.”
“It is certain that Paul Römer has done family members of famous Dutch people anything but a favor. It is precisely because of these types of actions that the term nepobaby exists.”