At home, John de Mol uses formats in which Dutch people are pushed into the swimming pool with a ball, but as soon as he sets foot on Portuguese soil, everything changes. “Three hours with heated head!”
The agony of Johnny de Mol – at least, that is how Angela de Jong sees it – is almost over: he has to do the Oranjezomer for four evenings and then it is over. The lion’s share of the family is already in the Algarve, so the summer fun can only really begin after the weekend: the family house of TV billionaire John de Mol in Vale do Lobo is well filled.
Worst host
Angela de Jong thinks it is better for all parties that Johnny will soon be on the plane to Portugal. “I notice that in recent weeks I could only feel pity if I saw him busy,” she sniffs in her newest AD Column.
“If a prize is created for the worst talk show host, Johnny will win him brilliantly. And that is an achievement after we have seen Khalid Kasem, Giovanca Ostiana and the duo Astrid Joosten and Paul de Leeuw in recent years.”
Barbecue
Johnny can almost enjoy his mind again, because the holiday home is waiting for him. Aunt Linda de Mol calls it their ‘ultimate Happy Place’. “Our family holiday home in the Portuguese Algarve. Where it smells of pine trees and where, if we finally keep our valve, we hear the sea,” she writes in the Linda.
“We have been coming here every summer for over 33 years and I have enjoyed countless sunny days here, Piripiri chickens, beach walks and BBQ evenings. I see the smaller house next to it that now from Johnny and his family and where my parents used to be so happy to celebrate vacation.”
Madman
In other words: it is almost great fun on the south coast of Europe. John also completely relaxes, says Linda. “I think of my brother who never cooks, but here for three hours with an overheated head above a barbecue hangs to put the perfect sardient and sausage on the table.”
Is that it? No! “On Sundays he makes a pan roaring eggs where it quietly twenty eggs in Kiepert.”
Tranquilo
In other words: everyone is tasty in the Mol holiday villa tranquilo. “Life is going to be slower here and that is why you think more about it,” she concludes.
Beautiful. Sounds like enough breeding ground for John to come up with new quality television in peace. What will it be? The perfect sausage VIPS, with Patty Brard on a skewered bed of skewers? Or all of Holland Braadt, presented by Jan Versteegh in a leather apron, hanging above a half -cooked chop chop?