The luxury BN’er-Gym Saints & Stars is under fire after the exploitation scandal and that leads to thorny situations. Friends, loved ones and sports buddies fly each other in the hair about the question: Do you continue to train or can you say?
Het Parool revealed that at least 23 Filipino and Indonesian cleaners at Saints & Stars worked under degrading circumstances: passports taken, scolded by managers and with four men in one bed in the villa of owner Tom Moos. Since that publication, nothing seems to be the same for the until recently popular BN’er-Gym.
Gym
Some members immediately put a line through the high-end gym, others remain faithful to their ‘holy hyrox’ classes against better judgment. Well -known faces such as Donny Roelvink and Marieke Elsinga already eagerly distanced themselves from the gym, but it is different for the average customer.
Saints & Stars uses very expensive, long -term subscriptions that you are not just off. “I really can’t have two gym subscriptions at the same time, I am not that rich again,” says an anonymous customer Het Parool. And so many members, no matter how uncomfortable, are stuck with the shiny gym where Dutch celebrities train for free.
Shame
The shame is now visible. Visitors leave the gyms with a towel over their heads in order not to be recognizable, can be seen on large photos in the newspaper. “Shame, the woman says, when she loosens the bike she has parked for the Melkweg.” I think it’s terrible what happened, “you can read in the newspaper.
And so there are more and more arguments. Because where one puts principles above everything else – ‘one strike, you’re out’ – the other person finds it all a bit exaggerated. “You actively reward criminal behavior if you stay,” say the boarders. Blayers sigh about ‘moral convictions’.
Stay or leave
Even groups of friends and couples fly each other in the hair: staying or leaving Saints & Stars is suddenly a moral litmus test. One Willem immediately canceled his membership on Friday, he says. “I read the piece in the gym. I have always found it a great concept, it was very nice to work out.”
He says that selfishness bumps into him. “I can’t go there anymore, even if the owner says that there is a change in his personnel policy. I cut myself in, but principles are principles. With friends who stay, I have had intense discussions about it. I think something about that.”
The big question remains: will Marieke Elsinga have already given up her ‘blood money’?