Herman van der Zandt commits a PR blunder for the first time. He complains in an ad interview about his ‘heavy’ TV job and Tina Nijkamp finds that very stupid. “This is so typical for TV stars.”
TV stars always pretend that life is so incredibly heavy for them, but compared to ‘normal’ people with a ‘normal’ job, the majority works even less than part-time. Herman van der Zandt did have a full-time job at the NOS, but against a lucrative TV salary. Now he earns the same for much less work at KRO-NCRV.
‘Mass a lot’
Herman thinks that. He says in it Ad: “I had a nice job. With great colleagues, some became his friends. But it was always irregular. Early mornings, late evenings, at work at work. In the summer away for the Tour, the Paralympic Games, Olympic Games, the classics.”
He continues in the newspaper: “All very nice, but also intensely for my private life. I thought at some point: I miss a lot. Look, I don’t have to go to every party or outing, but I thought it is going fast with the children. The work-life balance started to become unhealthy.”
Tina Critical
TV authority Tina Nijkamp finds this complaining awkward. “A really great presenter, Herman van der Zandt, but I find this lamentation so typical of TV stars. That’s how spoiled it comes across,” she writes on her analysis canal.
The NOS really doesn’t get rid of you, says Tina. “As if the collective agreement of the NOS once allowed Herman to work for more than 40 hours a week. Don’t think so. Is well arranged there.”
Normal people
Herman just exaggerates, she thinks. “” Normal “people with a normal job with irregular working hours, such as nurses and truck drivers, would squeeze their hands with the schemes of just about all presenters.”
“Anyway, Herman makes it free from TV work after no less than one year and three months, his comeback with its own TV show,” she says, pointing at the reunion.