It will be an exciting year for Eva Jinek: not only is she expecting a second child, but her lucrative million-dollar contract with RTL is also coming to an end. “How is she going to do that?”
Eva Jinek is in the last year of her million-dollar contract with RTL. She revealed her second pregnancy yesterday, so it will be a quiet 2023 in terms of work. She will close her season in a few weeks, she will never be on TV in the summer and she will be on maternity leave in the fall. How will she start negotiating a new contract?
Salient detail
It is clear to everyone that Eva never lived up to the sky-high expectations at RTL. Unfortunately, after HLF8, she is often the least watched talk show of the evening and that of course does not justify a salary of 1.2 million euros per year. Fortunately, it is expected that she can easily absorb her predicted salary drop.
Patty Brard thinks that Eva is not very strong in the negotiations. She says in Show news: “A salient detail is that she should negotiate a new contract with RTL at the end of this year. How to do that while feeding baby food…”
‘Let’s go girl!’
Dyantha Brooks thinks Eva will figure it out. “She can do that, she will abolish that.”
However, Eva will have to take the predicted drop in salary into account, thinks colleague Bart Ettekoven. “Whether she will get so much money out of it will be exciting.”
Dyantha: “Two children, more mouths to feed. I say: let’s go girl.”
According to Dyantha, it will be a very quiet working year for Eva. “We have no idea if we will see her this year, when she is ready.”
Bart: “They usually do three months for three months. She is now ready and then Beau will do three months, so she should come back by the summer.”
Dyantha: “And then she might go on leave.”
Leonie as a replacement?
Patty: “Yes, but of course we also have someone else on hold who I think might take her place.”
Bart: “No, no, I know who you mean, but I don’t think so. They already have so many people at RTL.”
Dyantha: “You are talking about Leontine ter Braak.”
Bart: “Yes, Leontine ter Braak went there.”
Patty: “Leonie.”
Dyantha: “Is that a serious successor to Jinek, do you think?”
Bart: “They have Humberto sitting, Renze sitting, Beau sitting.”
Patty: “They are all men. So it could well be. Last time she was also out for five months.”
“Is it OK?”
Eddy Zoëy wonders in RTL Boulevard how RTL will deal with this. “Do we now know anything about the progress of her talk show? That’s all in schedules, isn’t it? Is it good or bad?”
Colleague Aran Bade: “It always goes down well, because it’s great news. I do think: there are enough talk show hosts in the RTL stable now, so that will not be a concern.”
In terms of viewing figures, Eva will not really be missed, thinks Telegraaf star Jordi Versteegden. “I’m a bit worried about her by now,” he said this week in the podcast Strictly Private. “I looked at her ratings again this morning, well there are only half a million, there were once a million.”
TV connoisseur Ron Vergouwen tweets: “It will be (again) a very long leave period for Eva Jinek. Beau, Humberto and Renze can put their agendas side by side to fill the talk show gap.”
