Angela de Jong provides clarity one more time about her many TV appearances. For the very last time she explains why she is on the tube so much. “I’m just the underpants of the AD.”
The AD can squeeze its hands with Angela de Jong. As a TV columnist for the newspaper, she is constantly asked for all kinds of programs and is also mediagenic. Initially there was a lot of criticism of her many TV appearances, because: can she still remain objective? She has proven that over and over again.
Angela is underpants
Every now and then Angela is accused of being on the channel purely because of vanity, but she contradicts that. “You’re doing it because you have to, aren’t you, for the newspaper? That’s why you’re here,” Wilfred Genee says to her In The Corridorsthe after-talk section of Today Inside.
Angela then explains it one more time. “I’d like to explain it to you one more time. I just compared it to someone with your underpants. Every now and then you hold up a pair of underpants and I am the underpants of the AD, who occasionally hold them up. Then people think of the AD.”
‘It’s advertising’
In the end, it’s just plain advertising for the newspaper, Angela explains to Wilfred. “You also hold up those underpants for a specific purpose. That’s why I always say, ‘I said yes to the newspaper and they want me to do it.’”
Angela sat at the table at VI for the first time last Wednesday, a month after her mega quarrel with Johan Derksen. This time Johan was extremely friendly. “Yes, I don’t know. I always sit here with the idea: I’ll see what comes over me and what they’ve come up with. This time Johan was sweet and nice.”
Suprised
Wilfred is surprised about that. “Yeah, I was surprised too. Have there not been people who, as a result of that last broadcast, have said: ‘I wouldn’t do it again. I wouldn’t do it now anyway.’”
Angela: “A lot of people asked: ‘Are you going to sit there?’ I don’t believe there are… Yes, there are always people who say, ‘What are you doing there?’”
She concludes: “On the other hand, whenever I meet AD readers, they ask: ‘When will you be back at VI?’ So this program is very popular among our readers.”
