Eva Jinek never sits at the table at Today Inside, but she is discussed most often. Wilfred Genee in particular seems intent on verbally harassing her. “It’s starting to get a bit boring.”
The men of Today Inside are ruthless when it comes to famous Dutch people. If they hate you, you will never, ever be spared. Eva Jinek, for example, can never do well in the men’s class again, because she is said to have danced on VI’s grave when the program seemed to disappear after the candle riot.
Eva dropped out
Eva is bashed almost every week in VI, but it is always the same routine and that is starting to get a bit boring, says TV critic Victor Vlam, who has been rejected as a regular guest in the program. “I think Eva Jinek is criticized too often in the same way. It’s kind of the same story all the time,” he says in Victor Indicates TV.
What accusations does Eva keep receiving? That she doesn’t work on Fridays, that her studio in Amsterdam is too expensive and that she is on holiday too often, like now during the Olympic Games. We heard it again last week. “Then I thought to myself: this has been going on for minutes now, but we have really heard this story a thousand times, haven’t we?” says Victor.
‘We know this!’
It should stop now, Victor thinks. “We already know this. I think to myself: you shouldn’t repeat it too much. It just gets boring. It’s just boring television. That’s just it.”
According to him, VI must continue to renew itself. “Because the story has been told a thousand times, it’s boring. If something new happens that makes it logical to discuss Eva, for example if she makes a mistake, then it’s fine to discuss that. But this same story about her studio and her day off, we know that now.”
Bashing
Victor thinks it all seems a bit vindictive. “It’s a bit of bashing a competitor and I think you should do it sparingly. It’s not interesting television if you’ve heard it so many times.”
He concludes: “As far as I’m concerned, that could be a little less.”
