Jan Smit ran away from the Shownieuws camera because he did not want to answer questions about his alleged quarrel with sister Monique Smit. “This is very telling.”
Jan Smit (36) and Monique Smit (33) have had a very difficult relationship with each other for about fifteen years. The singer even flatly ignored her for two years, he revealed in his biography at the beginning of 2013. That was around eighteen, she later confirmed: “He hasn’t looked at me or talked to me for over two years. Nothing.”
silent quarrel
Monique went on tour with Jan at that time. “But then he wouldn’t talk to me either. I heard from someone else that he thought I had done it,” she said. Same thing on birthdays. “Then he looked at everyone except me. He just ignored me. At some point you even get used to it.” she said in Veronica Magazine.
Finally, his wife Liza brought the two back together. “That’s when I saw his house for the first time, I had never been inside. The moment he hugged me again and said that he loves me very much, I was quite full. We held each other for ten minutes, said nothing, and then never said anything about it.”
toddler receipt
However, that they have never really built up a warm family bond after that, became apparent in 2018, when Monique indicated that she hardly ever sees her brother. And last year their relationship turned out to have reached an ice-cold low point, when she was suddenly no longer involved in their joint children’s project De 2 Kleine Kleutertjes.
Monique and Jan started this together eight years ago. She always sang the songs, but for the new film – which premiered yesterday – she was taken off the project. When he was asked by RTL Boulevard about the reason last November, Jan spoke coldly about his sister.
Ice cold Jan
When asked if Monique doesn’t think it’s a pity that she is no longer involved, Jan replied quite coldly: “I don’t know. She wished me a lot of success and I wish her the best of luck with her Kleuter doll. I mean, am I sorry I’m not in that? New. That’s her thing and she should know it herself.”
The experts from RTL Boulevard were in shock: “He just talks coldly about his own sister. I think that’s pretty tough to see. Just chill and cold.”
It is obvious that it is a bumblebee, experts concluded at the time. Jan himself later accused the show section of cutting everything up. “I know how it works and I know what comes of it. That’s what they’re there for, isn’t it, Boulevard?”
Monique responds
Both RTL Boulevard and Shownieuws were present yesterday at the final premiere of that 2 Kleine Kleutertjes film and Monique was simply present. “Yes, there were some rumors that there would be a disagreement between you two, but that’s pure nonsense?”, reporter Thom Goderie asks her.
Monique: “Yes, because I don’t think I would have been here otherwise.”
Evert Sanwaarden then in the studio: “Yes, I do not find that a convincing argument”, he says, pointing to the previous silence quarrel between the two. Then they just saw each other.
John walks away
When reporter Thom wants to ask Jan the same question (“Just the question…”), the singer immediately walks away. “I’m going to continue for a while.”
Evert: “I already think he left home with: oh, then they’ll start talking about Monique again! It was also very likely that we would start talking about it, because that something is going on between the two has of course been clear for years. At first he thought it was a business thing that they broke up, but I don’t think they’re flat in Volendam either.”
It is clear that it is still not completely peaceful, according to Evert. “The speed with which he now made his way on that red carpet was very telling without saying anything.”
The seven-second clip can be viewed on the Show news site†