Anouk doubts the sincerity and integrity of Peter van der Vorst. She wonders whether the TV boss of RTL really knew nothing about misconduct at The Voice of Holland. “Yeah, of course you don’t know that.”
According to Anouk, it is ‘one corrupt gang’ at The Voice of Holland and that is why she immediately left the program when the abuse scandal came out. Both RTL and producer ITV claim to have known nothing about misconduct in the talent show, but this week it turned out to be wrong: at least one ITV bobo knew about it.
backstabber
Anouk does not regret that she immediately left The Voice. A day later she got a call from a ‘very angry’ Peter van der Vorst. He acted like a “screaming suckling pig,” she said earlier. “Yes, it certainly was. I thought it was very unprofessional,” she responded to the talk show last night Jinek†
“I didn’t want anything to do with it anymore, just like a lot of sponsors. I can’t imagine that at Lidl or T-Mobile, for example, or whoever the f*ck sponsors that, he was also on the phone yelling that everyone was a backstabber. I thought it was very unprofessional that he did that to me. I thought: you’re really doing that to the wrong person.”
Corrupt Gang
Eva Jinek has discussed this with Peter. He’s also her boss, she notes for the sake of completeness. “I spoke to him and he found it very difficult for all the people who worked there and it was good that you resigned like that and said, ‘Corrupt gang!’”
Bland, Anouk thinks. “Yes, say, come on! I find that a bit strange, because by corrupt gang I don’t mean the people in the workplace anyway, of course. That’s not about anything. What I mean by that is that, for example, with Jeroen… Those people already knew! So that man has been reprimanded. By John de Mol.”
girls recruited
The misconduct of Jeroen Rietbergen has been covered up for years. “Anyway, the moment you receive an official reprimand, then everyone will hear about it. It cannot be true that John de Mol and everyone there knows that he has been reprimanded, and the next party that takes over the program (ITV, ed.) knows nothing about it.”
“That is not possible, because that is on paper”, thinks Anouk. “Then the other party knows that too. People knew that and so I actually recruited girls for that program while others knew about it. I said, ‘Everyone come to The Voice, audition, it’s going to be crazy.’”
Is Peter lying?
Eva: “RTL says they didn’t know. Peter says he didn’t know.”
Anouk openly doubts that. “Yeah, well, of course you don’t know. I find that very difficult. I’m not saying he’s lying, but I find that very difficult ummm… to understand myself. That that is not possible, if someone has already officially received a reprimand.”
Eva: “Are you going to talk to Peter?”
Anouk: “I don’t know if he still wants to talk to me.”
Eva: “Yes, I think so.”
Drinking coffee
Anouk: “Well, we now have an appointment to discuss it in May. I thought, maybe that should have happened before. I don’t know man, it’s hard for me. It would have been nice if he’d just said, “After that outburst, let’s just sit down and have a coffee and explain why I freaked out.” Whether it’s the stress or that his head would roll, I don’t know.”
Eva: “I know he wants to have coffee with you. That’s for sure.”
Anouk: “Well, very nice.”
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Anouk at Jinek: