Fidan Ekiz denounces the way Lieke van Lexmond acted during their interview in the talk show Op1. “It’s just a shame that it was so uncomfortable during the broadcast.”
Lieke van Lexmond and her ‘moon sister’ Jetteke came under fire at the end of last year for giving ‘medical advice‘ in their lunar calendar, selling fake gems and their views on vaccinations. Only two months ago, at the end of June, she sat at a talk show table for the first time since that media row, namely at Op1.
‘Looking for it?’
The reason that Lieke joined Op1 was to promote some kind of film, but presenter Fidan Ekiz also asked her extensively about all the fuss from then. It visibly irritated Lieke and after the broadcast, like-minded women such as Doutzen Kroes reacted furiously. “She’s like the tabloid press!”
In retrospect, Fidan finds it very unfortunate that Lieke was so defensive, she says in &C magazine. “I was put down for ‘wanting to get on’ her, ‘frauding her’. Well, I’m sorry, but if I want to hit someone hard, it would be Rutte, not Lieke van Lexmond. What do I have to gain from that?”
‘Meet her!’
Lieke’s surprised reaction was feigned, says Fidan. “It was pre-announced: we’re going to talk about your year, not just that movie.”
Chantal Janzen, who interviews Fidan, says: “If you really don’t want that, you better not sit there.”
Fidan: “I think so too. That’s why the conversation was so stiff, I thought: what’s going wrong here? She knew I would ask about this, right? Afterwards, I also checked with the editor and with Lieke herself.”
Uncomfortable
Lieke’s attitude has caused Fidan quite a bit of trouble. Unnecessary misery, the presenter snorts. “Everything was discussed in advance. Also with her manager. So that it was so uncomfortable during the broadcast, it’s just a shame.”
It is especially annoying that people on social media such as Twitter immediately go along with Lieke’s feigned surprise, according to Fidan. “What I find particularly annoying is that everyone – viewers, other media, social channels – immediately goes along with that anger. That no one calls me or the editor and asks: what was it like?”
washing pig
They want you right on the spit, says Fidan. She would have preferred if she had been asked for a response. “Instead of pretending I have a personal vendetta against her and thought: well, let’s wash that pig. I find that straightforwardness and judgment difficult.”
Incidentally, Fidan also held a strong interview with a farmer in the same broadcast. She has also been heavily criticized for this. “That bothers me a lot. I should also be able to critically question a farmer, right? Without immediately saying that I have been bribed by D66?”, said the presenter, who has since disappeared from Twitter.