Dyantha Brooks thinks it is lame and inappropriate that Tina Nijkamp, as a 54-year-old woman, has expressed such fierce criticism of the inappropriate ‘watch party’ of Countess Eloise (23). “She’s very young, isn’t she?”
TV authority Tina Nijkamp has sparked a real riot with her fierce criticism of the ‘watch party‘ which Countess Eloise organized for the episode of Traces of Slavery featuring her mother Princess Laurentien. “Making slavery a party. This is what living in a bubble is. TOTAL MADNESS,” shouted the regular Today Inside guest.
Eloise says sorry
Eloise has now gone through the dust. “Watch party was not the right word. It has also apparently given rise to misconceptions, because of course it is not a party. I used it because this is what ‘viewing’ evenings are generally called. But that is not the point,” she says on Instagram.
“I posted because this was a very special evening for my mother, my family and the crew, who put a lot of work into the production of this beautiful program! I am grateful for the new insights into our family background and the colonial history of Indonesia. It was special and emotional, especially for my mother.”
‘How can something like that happen?’
Eloise is pissed off at Tina. “I do wonder: how can something so important be focused on something that doesn’t matter in the bigger story? And that assumptions are immediately made based on something of which you think you know the whole story?”
Show news presenter Dyantha Brooks, notorious for making fun of celebrities, is friends with Eloise’s bestie Robbert Rodenburg and therefore steps in The Orange Winter in the breach for Eloise. “She’s very young, isn’t she?”
‘Really sad’
Dyantha finds critics like Tina ‘sad’. “Everything Eloise does is under a magnifying glass. Whether she smokes a cigarette on the terrace the first time… That makes perfect sense, but I find it a bit sad that we as adults start to be very outspoken about it, like: ‘A watch party!’, while it is such a heavy matter.”
Hostess Hélène Hendriks: “She is 23 now, right?”
Dyantha: “23, but a girl organizing a dinner with the crew… Is it that bad?”
‘Pick her up’
Eloise is always the best, Dyantha thinks. “With some people and with Eloise, they have the hots for her. Everything she does… Then she has collaborations and earns her own money and then it’s like: ‘No, that’s really not possible! Then she’s there as an influencer!’ Let go! It’s a 23-year-old girl!”
The selfies that Eloise posts with her apology are laughable, says Hélène. “Take a look at the photo. A very appropriate and moody photo has been taken. She looks very sad.”
Sad
It also makes Luuk Ikink laugh. He agrees RTL Boulevard: “Those photos! She looks so sad in them!”
TV critic Rob Goossens also has to chuckle about it. “She learned from her aunt Máxima after the terrible Greece riot! She realized: I just have to look very sad and maybe people will forgive us.”
According to him, one thing is certain: “They don’t really have a sense of proportion in that family.”
What does Tina think?
Finally, what does Tina think of everything she has unleashed? She responds to her analysis channel: “Living in a bubble is not ignorance, but thinking that your world is the normal world.”
“Being so privileged that a TV program is made about your family history and even about something as sensitive as slavery, even turning it into an event on Instagram. Some stories don’t require a ‘watch party’ moment on Instagram.”