AD media journalist Marcus den Blanken can no longer watch Linda de Mol normally when she appears on television with a young lady. “Then Jeroen Rietbergen shoots through my head.”
The discredited Linda de Mol returned to television last Sunday after a long media break with her famous game show Postcode Loterij: Miljoenenjacht. She played the game with 25-year-old Carmen from Groningen and she did very well. In the end, she went home with a hefty 211 thousand euros.
Linda with young lady
AD media journalist Marcus den Blanken noticed that his thoughts wandered when he saw Linda standing with the young Carmen by her side. “I was a little bit cynical when I was watching. There was a 25-year-old girl in the final who was allowed to play the suitcase game and Linda really took care of her, kind of protected her,” he says.
He continues in the AD Media podcast: “And then now and then Jeroen Rietbergen pops into my head with a 25-year-old candidate on a television program. But that was a little bit of cynicism on my part.”
‘Shot through my head’
Marcus is referring here to one of Jeroen’s alleged victims at The Voice. His colleague Angela de Jong said: “If only she had protected it, you wanted to say.”
Marcus doesn’t want to go that far. “Well no, it just popped into my head.”
It’s good that Linda seems to have recovered, says Marcus. “Linda just stood there as Linda again. For example, when that riot just started, she also reacted to you and I thought: huh?! Linda de Mol who is going to give a sneer to Angela de Jong?! Why is she responding to you?! That’s not so Linda.”
Never been so nervous
Talpa bobo Paul Römer did not look at Linda with discomfort, but with admiration last week. He told Jinek last Friday: “I think she has never been so nervous in her television career for a turnout like this. I think this was the hardest of them all and here you can see how incredibly good she is at her job.”
He continues: “She comes on, she comes in a hot bath, there are a thousand people in that studio and they are all going to clap. Then you have to recite that text and she has thought about every word for a long time. She does that almost as pretty as king Charles. She brings the lyrics with the emotion she feels.”
Incredible professional
Francis van Broekhuizen agrees. “You can see that she is a very professional woman. Just look at what she’s gotten over her.”
Then quickly: “Apart from the fact that those victims also have to get the proper attention, because every time you say something about that you like Linda de Mol, you’ll be told that you forget those victims, but I don’t forget them. But I also think Linda is a bit of a victim in the whole story.”
