Linda de Mol would do well to stop her passive-aggressive attitude in the media, say experts Lars Duursma and Victor Vlam. “Every time she communicates she is so angry.”
It is undeniable that Linda de Mol has undergone an enormous metamorphosis. Where she was the acclaimed TV queen for years, she is now a bitter woman who refuses to talk to the media any longer. Very occasionally she throws out a statement and then she sounds very grumpy, gruff and irritable.
Parisian controversy
Linda also responded to the fact that she was caught in Paris with the controversial Jeroen Rietbergen, better known as Vieze Jeroentje. “I don’t owe anyone an explanation: this is about my private life. All I want to say about it is that after a year I have come to the conclusion that I have something to figure out. And I want to leave it at that.”
Pretty passive-aggressive, of course. Linda’s daughter Noa Vahle reacted a little more humanely: “I just want my mother to be happy in the end. If it’s someone’s relationship, then that’s someone’s relationship. He makes that choice himself. I think it is very logical that she will look for something after such a year.”
Close all shutters
Media connoisseur Victor Vlam thinks that Noa handles it much better, he says in the podcast The Communicados. “She says, ‘I just want my mom to be happy.’ That’s just how it is relatable that you immediately get the idea of: yes, no, I think so too. And that is exactly the opposite of what Linda de Mol does.”
His co-host Lars Duursma, known as a communication expert, adds: “Yes, because he actually closes all the shutters. It yells at people who interfere: ‘Don’t interfere. It’s my thing, it’s private, it’s my thing!’ And she no longer communicates at all or when she communicates it suddenly becomes very angry.”
Angry Linda
Linda is bitter, Victor thinks. “Yes, very angry. Yes, because also last week when that photo came out of her and Jeroen Rietbergen in Paris. Another angry statement of, “I don’t owe anyone a response.” And then just a few short sentences and then she says: ‘I want to leave it at that. I don’t want to say anything more about it.’”
“It’s all angry and it seems like she just doesn’t want to open up. I think that if she just gives an interview and if she prepares well for it, then she can really achieve a lot here, because she has of course been someone for many years who was considered very sympathetic by many Dutch people. So you can take advantage of that.”
Noah as an example
Noa is an example for her mother, says Lars. “Yes, I think that Noa Vahle must have looked at her mother very often to see how something should be done. In fact, it should now be reversed. From: Linda de Mol, she should look at her daughter more often to see how things are done.”
Victor: “Yes, exactly, yes. Certainly.”
The Communicados
The podcast De Communicados:
