Lilian Marijnissen was severely criticized live in Hélène Hendriks’ talk show by media critic Victor Vlam. “If you keep doing things like this, it’s not good for your image,” he snaps at her.
There are many people who do not understand the fact that Lilian Marijnissen allows herself to participate in the celebrity bullshit show Ranking the Stars. Both Angela de Jong and Tina Nijkamp have criticized it in their columns. “Yes, well, I just do what I like and if Tina Nijkamp thinks something about that, that’s fine with me,” she now responds.
Victor tackles Lilian
Lilian does not lose sleep over that criticism. “But I was surprised about it, because I sat next to Robèrt van Beckhoven, a super sweet man, I sat behind Loretta Schrijver, a super sweet woman,” she says in the The Orange Winter from last night. “We had a great time, I think a million people watched it.”
Media critic Victor Vlam is also in the studio and understands the criticism of Lilian, especially because she aspires to a TV career. He snaps at her: “It’s going to be more difficult to do a serious journalistic program, of course, because it’s really bullshit television. It is the domain of people like Gordon and Patty who score well there and are there.”
No more talk show
Now, for example, Lilian no longer has to count on a talk show, according to Victor. “I honestly think that it will be more difficult for you to, for example, present a talk show because you do these kinds of things.”
Hostess Hélène Hendriks then: “But do you want that?”
Lilian: “I’m just doing it now… I’ve just had a baby, who will be going to daycare from next month, so then I can start doing something again… In the meantime, I’m being asked to do all kinds of things. Some things are fun, I do them, and some things aren’t. I’ll see what comes my way. I don’t think about it that way at all.”
Very very flat
All those TV critics can be stolen from Lilian. “Angela de Jong had previously written an entire column about me and it was about Today Inside and such and she does not think it is appropriate for me to appear there.”
Victor: “That is a current affairs program you are on. This is of course a very flat program, not as flat as it used to be, but then I think to myself: if you want to be taken seriously, and I think that is what you do best, then you would not be in such a program should sit down.”
Bad for image
According to Victor, if you join a program as flat as Ranking the Stars, you shouldn’t be surprised if people start to think differently about you.
“If you do this once, everyone will soon forget it, but if you constantly do this kind of thing, it just becomes your image and image is everything in the television world.”