At the beginning of the evening, which would become an exhausting swamp course of talk shows and opinions, media journalist Rob Goossens spoke at RTL Boulevard his condolences to Linda de Mol. After all, he could no longer normally take a bag of truffle chips from the supermarket. Goossens, sunbathing in the studio light these days, was also curious how Johnny de Mol would react to the scandal at The Voice. “He can’t get around the news.”
De Mol did not do that either. When announcing his talk show Hlf8 he said with a serious face that he was “overwhelmed with conflicting feelings.” Sidekick Catherine Keyl then subjected De Mol to a surprisingly critical interview. ‘Damn it,’ she said, after Johnny denied that he knew about the breakup between Linda de Mol and Jeroen Rietbergen. He called Rietbergen an ‘unbelievable bastard’ (‘but of course we love him’) and hinted that his father was indeed aware of what was involved in The Voice happened. De Mol was visibly uneasy about it, seemed to barely have his nerves under control and answered sparingly. It looked genuine, but in these parts you never know.
Fast forward to VI Today. René van der Gijp was sure that everyone around The Voice was aware of the abuses. ‘You know how men are. When they fuck something, they want to tell it.’ By exposing the male psyche so flawlessly, he mowed the grass at the feet of psychiatrist Bram Bakker, who out of desperation began to talk about little men, because just look at French and Italian presidents. Something sensible was actually said by Johan Derksen. ‘These kinds of subjects are too important to be discussed at these kinds of tables (discuss, red.).’
He meant, besides his own table, programs like RTL Boulevard and Show news. But also in mr. there was extensive discussion on Monday about the abuses at The Voice. It eventually led to a fervent appeal by Margriet van der Linden to victims of abuse to report to the editors of mr.
It will undoubtedly be well-intentioned, but you have to ask yourself whether these kinds of precarious topics are in good hands with talk show editors, who are naturally driven by the issues of the day and where meticulousness often loses out against the urge to score.
Bee Beau That same night it all went wrong. During a spontaneous and emotional outpouring, former voicecandidate Nienke Wijnhoven that she was groped by Jeroen Rietbergen. “Harassment,” Beau concluded. Well, said lawyer Meike Lubbers, it doesn’t work that way. “It’s really not just any assault. For that it must be clear that you were stopped or that violence was used, that did not happen.’ Lubbers was wrong. She admitted this afterwards, after she was corrected on Twitter by fellow lawyer Christian Flokstra.
But by then the damage was already done.