Bewilderment everywhere: the dubious Voice Mrs. Linde de Jong, who has also been known as ‘Talpa-bitch’ since her arrogant performance in BOOS, simply seems involved in the follow-up to The Voice.
Linde de Jong is the controversial one creative director of John de Mol who, according to Tim Hofman, was aware of several cases of transgressive behavior at The Voice of Holland. Her role in the Voice scandal is questionable to say the least and last week it was rumored that she would still be fired by Talpa after a year.
‘Linde on the set’
It is unclear exactly how that works, but in the past period she has in any case contributed to the successor to The Voice, namely The Talent Scouts on SBS 6. At least, that is what it says AD. “It is remarkable that one of the spectators this site spoke to saw Linde de Jong at work at The Talent Scouts.”
According to the AD, on the set of The Talent Scouts, which will premiere soon, it has been said that this show is simply ‘The Voice 2.0’. Including the same manager at the helm. Very questionable. “She would have known at an early stage of multiple reports of misconduct at The Voice,” the newspaper said.
Tim responds
The alleged appointment of Linde causes quite a stir. Like this say Voice-sloper Tim Hofman: “In our second episode about The Voice, it was shown that the same Linde had known about complaints about Jeroen Rietbergen’s behavior for some time. This also seems to be reflected in the results of the research that ITV published.”
According to Tim, John and his Talpa keep shoving things under the rug. “Following the investigation report, we sent the same questions that we had in the second broadcast to the parties involved. We have not yet received a response to this.”
What does Sebas say?
What does Sébas Diekstra, the lawyer of several victims of The Voice, say? He tweets to find it special that John comes up with such a Voice copy at all. “What makes it really special is that the creative director of The Voice, Linde de Jong, also appears to be walking around on the floor here. Probably again as production manager.”
Sébas calls it ‘problematic’, also because Talpa indicates that candidates of The Talent Scouts can report inappropriate behavior to ‘the production management of the program’. “No, that gives confidence. Report to (apparently) the same production management as The Voice of Holland.”
He continues: “The confidential advisor with four (!) Reports of misconduct was also unable to make a difference within The Voice.”
GeenStijl goes wild
The well-known opinion site GeenStijl is already going wild on the successor to The Voice with the controversial Linde on board. “The Voice returns under a different name. Assaulting and beating from now on at The Talent Scouts,” reads the unscrupulous headline of the article. Moments later: “Never change a winner assault fest.”
According to the opinion site, the involvement of ‘that incredibly arrogant Truus’ Linde is bizarre. “Because of all those messy reports from the toilet duck factory, we still don’t know what her role was, and victim lawyer Sébas Diekstra also has some questions about that. But of course dude, put Linde back to work, and at exactly the same show.”
Show news bashs Sébas
What does Shownieuws, John de Mol’s show section, have to say about this? There they are – surprisingly – especially annoyed with Sébas, who regularly visits the media on behalf of his clients. For example, he has now announced that the British parent company of Voice producer ITV will accept his request to discuss the Voice issue.
Show connoisseur Bart Ettekoven in the broadcast from last night: “Why do we know all this? Why is Sebas sharing this? Is that good for the victims that this is constantly… He can also just go to London and keep that appointment. Why should it be shared with the rest of the Netherlands?”
‘Too public’
Dyantha Brooks agrees. “He can just fly to London, period. It’s all very public.”
Patty Brard: “While he reproaches us for finding that publicity so painful. I also think in this case: don’t report it, go, come back and then give us the conclusion.”
According to Natacha Harlequin, it is quite conceivable that the Voice victims are happy with the fact that Sébas is seeking media attention. “He can increase the pressure that way and this can make people think.”
And about Linde de Jong? Not a word.