Yesterday, Janine Abbring was confronted with images at Eva Jinek that she had never seen before. She would rather not have known they existed. “This is kind of my boobies moment!”
Three hours, one guest, no earpiece, no safety net: Zomergasten is a tough job for Janine Abbring. She visited Eva Jinek yesterday to announce her first ever guest of the very last season, namely Peter Pannekoek, and the hostess explained why she always works with an earpiece: to be able to be warned.
Without earpiece
Eva finds it interesting that Janine does not do that. “You have always chosen to work without an earpiece. That is so that the editor upstairs can say to you: ‘Just so long’, or I need it for the time, because I can’t do that very well by feeling.”
She continues in her talk show of the same name: “I don’t see the clock. It’s there, but then I would look away from you and I don’t want that. Other people also use it to hear: ‘You’re forgetting a fragment’, or: ‘Continue on with this.’ You didn’t want it. You wanted to have peace.”
Dead quiet
Janine finds that complicated. “I don’t understand how you do it. Listening and talking at the same time. I thought: I just can’t do that. That’s why I didn’t want to.”
Eva: “That’s not possible. It’s dead quiet in my house now too. Daphne is upstairs and only says something when I go off track in terms of time: ‘Another two and on.’ I can deal with that now, but I can’t listen to someone else and really listen to you. Absolutely not. So I completely understand that choice.”
‘How bad!’
Then Eva slowly works towards an embarrassing fragment. “The only thing is that if something goes wrong or you have to speed up or something happens to your face, there is no one to warn you and that’s how it goes.”
We then see Janine appear on screen doing the Summer Guests intro with lipstick on her teeth. “Do you know what it is?” Janine laughs. “This is the beginning of the broadcast and I am very nervous and I have such a psychological pressure… I also do that when I have to do a stage presentation: then I laugh a lot.”
Boost
What is that laughing for? “Yes, like: look how much I like this! I’m not nervous at all! So I laugh a lot at the beginning to give myself that psychological boost. Yes, and now no one can shout in my earpiece… This is kind of my boobies moment of course!” she says to Eva, pointing to her famous boobies fragment.
How was it resolved at the time? “The recording director René then held up a large cardboard sign with: ‘Your lipstick, teeth!’”