In his own podcast, Maarten devotes the entire broadcast to Sis, with whom he and his brother Vincent broadcast the NTR program. Here are the Van Rossems made. The 78-year-old history buff remembers his sister as someone who always showed the back of her tongue.
“My sister has never turned her heart into a murder pit,” Maarten says. “And certainly as she got older, she had an even more inclination to say things straight. I think that is extremely sensible.”
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Although this sometimes caused minor irritations, especially on shooting days of the popular program. “I sometimes had trouble with the fact that she was very committed to her role during the recordings, but afterwards I thought it was fine that she did that. Because of course it soon became apparent that our, how should I say, sometimes ‘slightly stimulated’ conversations, for many viewers, were the charm of the program. And we weren’t laughing all the time either. We actually didn’t do exactly what everyone else does in television programs.”
The judge of TV show The smartest person says that Sis fell into a coma fairly quickly after her fall. “And she never got out of there. I’m still getting used to the fact that she’s gone. I’m not one to burst into unstoppable tears on hearing “she’s dead” and squirm on the floor. Not at all. But I have to get used to it slowly (…) Now I walk around and I think: gosh, also sad that she can no longer take this day with me.”
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Excerpt from Here are the Van Rossems.
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What will happen to Here are the Van Rossems is not yet clear, according to Maarten. “Of course it misses something of the unique character if Sis is not there. Precisely because of her stubbornness and contrariness, in which she was a master in all sorts of ways. There are also very few people in the Netherlands who make TV programs who have not watched television for twenty years, I believe. She never looked at all. She thought it was a repulsive medium.”
Maarten thinks that his brother Vincent experiences the grieving process in more or less the same way as he does. “That’s Vincent, he doesn’t show much. It will be the same with him as with me: a little slowly. A grieving process is something that develops very slowly. Which you have been working on for years, in all kinds of ways.”