Is Alberto Stegeman starting to become a parody of himself with his breathy confrontations and theatrical screams? AD opinion diva Angela de Jong thinks so. “It’s embarrassing.”
People who are zapping on a Sunday evening will sooner or later fall for it: Alberto Stegeman who is somewhere on the street shouting at some bogeyman or bogeyman. Last night it happened again: in front of 468 thousand viewers, he screamed his lungs out somewhere in a residential area in Stegeman op de Bres.
‘Alberto wants to score’
Alberto is called in by an elderly couple, whose son Jamie became seriously disabled a few years ago and was left with a huge debt by his then wife Charity. She is said to have used certain funds to live comfortably, but is now in debt restructuring herself. A rather thorny private matter.
Private or not: Alberto smells sensation from a hundred kilometers away, so he immediately went there with a camera. “The problem with Alberto is that he wants to score so badly that he cannot dose,” writes Angela de Jong today in a scathing column in the newspaper. A.D.
Cracking voice
It’s always a bit too much with Alberto, says Angela. “He shouts and grumbles a little too often with a cracking voice at people and in situations where it only works against him. As a result, I can hardly take him seriously as a viewer.”
Alberto also started shouting very loudly at that Charity: “You are angry with me? I am angry at you!” Really loud, in the middle of the street. Charity is initially benevolent, but is so frightened by the noise that at a certain point she cycles away. After which Alberto runs after it again. Everything for that sensational shot…
‘As if she were Taghi!’
Such a Charity is really being treated far too harshly by Alberto, Angela thinks. “In the end there was a confrontation in the middle of a busy intersection in which Stegeman was shouting and ranting at Charity as if she were Taghi in person. Not that it accomplished anything. It was mostly embarrassing and cringeworthy. But the pillory was there.”
Alberto is satisfied, Angela concludes. “He had filled his broadcast again.”