Wendy van Dijk gets involved in the ins and outs about Jan Smit’s divorce. The singer was supposed to participate in the 538 Morning Run for charity yesterday, but did not show up. Antisocial?
Arrangements had already been made with Jan Smit well in advance: the singer was supposed to perform for charity at the 538 Ochtendrun yesterday, but he did not show up. Why not? Because the whole country now knows that he is divorcing Liza Plat and he does not want to answer questions about it to the press present.
Jan cancels
Celebrity expert Bart Ettekoven finds it striking. “Jan Smit was also going to be there, he was also announced and was going to perform, but yes, then the news came out about his divorce from Liza, so there was already a kind of doubt: will he be there or not? Well, he was indeed not there, but the colleagues understood that he was absent.”
538 star Tim Klijn confirmed this on camera when asked Show news: “Unfortunately, Jan Smit has something else on his mind, so he had to cancel.”
Not so bad
What does singer Sven Versteeg think of it? “I didn’t mind that he didn’t come, otherwise I would have been here three hours earlier. I got a call this morning, I woke up and they said, ‘Can you do something later?’ I didn’t mind it that much, because I was able to lie down for a while.”
Does he understand that Jan cancels such an event for charity? “I understand, yes.”
“I’m fine with it!”
What does Wendy van Dijk think? She sits at the desk of Shownieuws and indicates that she does not think Jan is antisocial. “I think it’s a good thing that he didn’t come, because the attention shifts. Then it’s no longer about what it should be about, but then it’s about him.”
Bart: “So it is actually nice when you are so in the spotlight and you know that the entire press is going to dive into you, that you say: ‘It’s not about me today. It’s about this wonderful cause.’”
‘Precisely!’
By not being present, Jan ensured that it was really about a good cause, according to Shownieuws presenter Eva Vloon. “That way you actually help better by not being there on that day.”
Wendy agrees. She concludes: “Exactly. Definitely.”