Frank Dane joins the critics who think that Maarten van Rossem goes a little too far by interfering with Eva Jinek’s family planning. “What is grandpa meddling about?”
Eva Jinek is expecting a second child five years after the birth of Pax. She is completely over the moon, but Maarten van Rossem is less enthusiastic. The jury member of De Slimste Mens thinks the age difference between Eva’s two children is too great. As a result, they will have a less strong bond with each other, he fears.
Grandpa Martin
Maarten’s criticism arouses annoyance. Heleen van Royen thinks it’s downright rude and Youp van ‘t Hek calls it misplaced. The jury member of De Slimste Mens has since apologized, but that does not prevent Frank Dane from also having an opinion on it in RTL Boulevard.
Frank points in the show section at the age of Maarten, who will turn 80 this year. “What is grandpa meddling about, huh? Don’t you think so?”
Colleague Lex Uiting cynical: “So he was misunderstood, Frank.”
Ear sewn on
According to Rob Goossens, Maarten has fallen into a bit of a trap. “He was also given an ear, because it’s not that he started saying on his own: ‘That Eva Jinek should have gotten along a bit.’ He responded that it is so nice that those children grow up together and then he made the comment that it matters whether you differ by two or five years.”
The maker of Maarten’s podcast, Tom Jessen, smelled sensation and decided to cut the fragment loose and on YouTube with the sensational title: ‘Jinek starts very late with second child: ‘She should have been there sooner.’
And if such a fragment causes a stir? Then everything is taken out of context again.
Short-sighted
Maarten’s criticism is not only misplaced, but also short-sighted, says Woman star columnist Hester Zitvast. She writes: “The possible large gap between two children can have many reasons. (…) An age difference can be caused by fertility problems, perhaps miscarriages.”
“Or maybe you don’t want to go for a second one until after five or ten or fifteen years; that is up to you and not to anyone else – and certainly not to Maarten van Rossem. (…) Piss on everything you want to piss about, but not on women and their journey from becoming a mother. That is really incredibly inappropriate.”
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Maarten’s statements:
