Irene Moors, an old TV star who has become somewhat bitter, arouses quite a bit of anger in Jan Uriot. The star journalist of Privé thinks she is very false. “Don’t be silly with me!”
Irene Moors’ sour attitude towards the media is quite understandable. Years ago she pulled the plug on her Sunday hit show on RTL 4 to get started for SBS 6 and that – not entirely surprisingly – ended badly. While her former TV buddy Carlo Boszhard is still an A-star, Irene’s TV career is in the guardrail. And that doesn’t make you happy.
Irene angry at everything
Irene apparently feels misunderstood by everyone and everything, because her whole aura radiates bitterness. She is disgusted by the juice channels and even the much milder Angela de Jong doesn’t want to give them any attention. And what does she think of the criticism of her shuffleboard rambling in Marieke Elsinga’s TV flop? Unjustly!
And now the fallen presenter is angry again about an article in De Telegraaf. ‘Irene Moors: ‘The book Carlo is closed to me’, headlined the newspaper of the week. Well, that spawned a whole series of angry Instagramstories up from Irene. “The headline is suggestive,” she grumbled. And: “What is going on in the media world? Don’t think for yourself, just take over!”
John responds
Private star journalist Jan Uriot is the author of that Telegraaf article and is surprised by Irene’s statement that his headline is suggestive. “I was at the premiere of The Bodyguard and I spoke to her there. That was three weeks ago,” he says in the section What does Jan think.
He continues: “In the meantime, Carlo Boszhard has written a column in which he says: ‘Well, I’m going to work with Irene again.’ But what did she actually tell me two weeks before? She said, “Carlo’s book is closed. We have worked together for thirty years, I like round numbers.’”
“Don’t be silly!”
Jan did not immediately write that down in the newspaper. “Until Carlo came up with that column. Then last Monday I thought: I’ll put it in the newspaper. And then of course Irene knows very well, if you have been in the profession for so long, that if you say to me: ‘Carlo’s book is closed’, that will be the headline above the article.”
He continues: “She found that suggestive and taken out of context. Nothing taken out of context! It’s her words. Then you shouldn’t act weird with me, of course.”