It seems that SBS 6 does not have a leg to stand on when it comes to Nicol Kremers’ summons. She never signed a quit claim. “Only Peter!”
Nicol Kremers, the abused ex-girlfriend of Peter Gillis, is on the warpath. As a kind of walking Gillis grenade, her lawyer Sébas Diekstra has now demanded from Talpa that all old episodes of Massa is Kassa in which she appears will be removed and that she will never be performed in the reality series again. The reason? Too painful.
Moral compass
What is so striking about this summation? Talpa only gets two days (!) to respond to it and John de Mol’s Gillis-hugging media company reacts remarkably reasonably: “We have taken note of the summons to producer Concept Street and we will seriously look into this together with them. to look.”
huh? Talpa is seriously going to look into this? Are those counters of theirs finally operational again? Have John and his army of directors finally got their moral compass working again?
quit claim
No, something else seems to be going on. It could just be that SBS 6 does not have a leg to stand on, because according to Nicol it has not signed a quit claim. With such a contract, people who appear on television expressly give permission to broadcast and commercially exploit their entire possessions.
By signing such a quit claim, participants of a reality series cannot actually demand anything afterwards, beyond the (financial) agreements made in advance. In fact, those quit claims act as a kind of certainty that TV makers do not have to throw away their work, especially in the event that candidates regret it afterwards.
‘Nothing signed’
Anouk Smulders starts in the Show news from last night about those quitclaims. “The first question that comes to my mind: if you participate in such a program, quit claims are often signed, a contract.”
She continues: “If you run such a large production, I think everyone who comes in has to sign it, because it would not be nice for a production company if that is not signed and you get this kind of thing afterwards.”
Then colleague Bart Ettekoven reveals: “We spoke to a spokesman for Nicol tonight and he says that Peter Gillis has signed an agreement for broadcasting on behalf of the entire family.”
Peter responds
Oops, only Peter signed? On behalf of everyone in the series? Has that permission been formalized? Bart: “We were unable to check that with Concept Street, the producer of the series that offers it to Talpa. They are the creators of the series and should know exactly how it went contractually at the time.”
Peter doesn’t seem so sure about this either, given the first two words of his official written response: “I don’t think there is any basis for the summons. Nicol has given permission and cannot go back on it!”
Bart: “But Nicol says she never signed a contract.”
Peter: “Nicol apparently has a selective memory and persistently declares contrary to the truth. I bear no responsibility for that.”
Not for nothing
However, Nicol’s lawyer Sébas seems quite sure of his case, because he has only given SBS 6 and the producer two (!) days. Will Kinky Kremers soon be erased from all SBS archives?
Anouk: “Sébas Diekstra does not start this for nothing. If he has no reason to do so or if it is a kind of hopeless event, then he is not going to start it at all, is he?”