Frans Bauer does not really understand what Angela de Jong means with her criticism of his successful Christmas soap. “I didn’t really understand it. Of course a camera will be booked,” said the folk singer.
Television is of course completely fake: as a viewer you have no idea what is authentic and what is not. If you watch RTL Boulevard on the repeat you have no idea what Albert Verlinde’s niece has cut out and if you look at the Meilandjes you can sense that those people do what they do purely because there is a camera is on.
‘Nothing spontaneous about it!’
Sometimes TV deception still comes unexpectedly, as recently with Raven van Dorst. Her program Boerderij Van Dorst seems very authentic, but it is not. Guest Ellen ten Damme revealed that she had to cut all kinds of vegetables on a cutting board in the kitchen and then serve the catering food as if she had cooked it.
In the aftermath, Angela de Jong wrote that Frans Bauer’s Christmas soap is also not entirely authentic. About the scene in which he walks through the garden center with his family, she wrote: “The camera crew had simply been ordered for that day and the visit had long been planned. Nothing spontaneous about it.”
What does Frans think?
What does Frans think of that criticism? Renze Klamer confronts him about it in his talk show on RTL 4: “I read positive things, Angela was also positive, she says: ‘Those plays at Christmas, maybe you should stop doing that’, but yes, that…”
The Have You Even For Me singer then indicates that he does not understand Angela. “I didn’t really understand it. I read a piece… Of course a camera is booked. I did a concert in Ahoy and then a camera was booked a day later. Yes, what Maris will do later that day will be followed, but okay.”
Hang it yourself
Renze understands that Frans and Mariska went to the garden center. “And there’s no Christmas yet, so you have to put something up yourself.”
Frans: “Yes, Maris is crazy about Christmas. The Christmas event starts at those garden centers in October, Angela can see that too and then she can go there around October.”