Congratulations, presenter and TV chef Mijuschka Witzenhausen tells Iris (30). „You are in obese† The RTL5 weight loss program has a different presenter this season, and this time no morbidly obese people are followed, but ‘just’ overweight people – between 30 and 50 kilos overweight. Iris is surprised at work by the program makers. She in tears, so are her colleagues. Finally help, she hopes. For eight months, a dietitian, psychologist and trainer will help her to weigh less than 90 pounds in eight months.
But, we hear her say at the start: weight is not the most important. Healthy living, healthy food, feeling good about yourself. So no crash diets. No melting fat lobes. No wrinkly sheets of empty skin at the end of the ride. Undoubtedly, this change of course has something to do with the cooperation of De Nederlandse Obesitas Kliniek. They provide the care providers, and apparently also the healthier insights about how weight loss lasts better.
It remains painful to put people who already consider themselves “disgusting” in their underwear in front of the mirror so that the viewer can see how bad it is. Iris was once thin, then fat, thin, and now at her thickest. You can hear that she carries more than just her kilos in that one sentence “Even when I was slimmer, I thought I was fat.” In the eight months that we follow her, she mainly talks to her own camera. The help seems a bit meager. She also does the weighing moments in between on her own. Did corona sometimes intervene and was therefore mainly on her own? When she weighs herself in the end, now in front of friends, family and the viewer, her goal appears to have been achieved. She lost 23.4 kilos and gained a better “self-image”.
Tim takes a blurry picture
In front of The perfect picture, Wednesday on RTL4, no expense has been spared. Presenter Tijl Beckand told Tuesday at Beau that there is a waiting list of celebrities who would love to participate in the photography competition, but do not have six weeks. So an abbreviated version was made up, a sort of vacation-school trip-travel edition. Eight celebrities in a hotel in Argentina – in the words of Tijl Beckand “A very nice group and Tim”. That’s Tim den Besten. Each has a club of a camera and society photographer William Rutten is present to explain how such a thing works and, as a jury member, to assess afterwards what the candidates have photographed with it.
In sets of two, the hobby photographers are sent out into the street for the first assignment. Everyone gets an hour to take a photo with ‘locals’. Their stress and blind panic is not played out, and the insight you get into how their heads work is interesting. Renée Soutendijk, actress, looks like a filmmaker. Thomas Berge, singer, shoots seven photos and is very satisfied with quite a boring record. Roxanne Kwant, ‘online personality’, says she takes at least fifty photos of her cats every day. In Buenos Aires she photographs a dog and fellow candidate Jochem van Gelder. “Sweet, but lazy,” is the verdict of the jury.
By far the most entertaining participant is Tim den Besten, presenter. What’s going on in his inner room? His first photo assignment gives an indication. On it are people in a parking garage. out of focus. Where, what, why?, the jury wonders, calling it “a maze with no exit.” His second photo assignment – a studio photo with a model and a silver piece of jewelry – is also… special. He ends up with a meager fiver as the very last, and therefore has to leave the competition and the country. Hey, stop. He gets an exemption. Logically. Without him, the picture becomes less perfect.