Angela de Jong thinks it’s cowardly that her biggest critic Marcel van Roosmalen was so timid during their confrontation in Marcel & Gijs, but started kicking again a day later.
It’s starting to become a bit of a pattern with Marcel van Roosmalen: on paper and in podcast he is heroic, but during actual confrontations with his opponents he is quite timid. It already happened during his clash with Wilfred Genee and René van der Gijp in Today Inside, and recently also with Angela de Jong in his own talk show.
A little cowardly
After kicking Angela for years, Marcel was actually really nice to her during his actual meeting with Angela. But a day later, without Angela in front of him, it started again: he accused her of displaying ‘weird behavior’. And last weekend he called her ‘a pig in the oil’.
SBS 6 star Manuel Venderbos in the latest episode of the AD Media podcast: “I thought they were a bit cowardly.”
Angela to that: “Yes, me too.”
Manuel: “Then go full throttle with a straight leg. Then read your hardest column you’ve ever read…”
Angela: “Full house, come on, with a straight leg. Can.”
Poetic comments
That didn’t happen. Manuel: “It didn’t get any further than a few cowardly, fuzzy remarks, like: ‘Well, now it’s 3-0 for you. Now it’s 5-1.’”
Angela: “Yes, I also think I expected more the confrontation à la Johan Derksen, one way or another. But maybe not their style either. Can. Then they should not do that.”
Media journalist Dennis Jansen: “Well, of course that didn’t actually happen when he had a confrontation with Van der Gijp and Genee. Then Marcel van Roosmalen was actually not… Then he was very angry afterwards, I understood.”
‘Not so strong’
Manuel: “Yes, and then the next day in the podcast.”
Angela: “Yes, I don’t think that’s very strong either. Then I prefer Johan Derksen who simply says an ending of: ‘I didn’t have my day.’ You know, or, “I just wasn’t that good. I didn’t get my facts straight’, or whatever. Just say so.”
How were the gentlemen after the broadcast? Angela: “Well, just like before, it was fine. They were very nice. They also came to have a very extensive chat beforehand. Which surprised me, because I said: ‘You never see those men from VI before.’ You often sit in the make-up with the other guests and the gentlemen have their own dressing room.”
Three quarters
You see Johan Derksen no more than ten minutes in advance, says Angela. “But yes, Marcel and Gijs were really there 45 minutes in advance. Then they were walking around. And they had their make up there too. So yes, we had already spoken extensively beforehand. Which really surprised me. You don’t even do that with a Jeroen Pauw or an Eva Jinek.”
What then? “They really do say hello and hi, but they also really keep aloof from their guests just to keep the conversation at the table as uninhibited as possible. Because it’s hard to say: ‘Yes, but you just told me all that.’ And otherwise it feels a bit like you’re doing the trick again. Everyone chooses their own style, I think. However?”
‘Always that gel*l’
Maarten Bloem, until recently editor-in-chief of Playboy, has also had it a bit. He finds Marcel’s incessant grumbling about Angela getting a little tiresome.
“Always that bullshit about housewife this that she just has bullet film and TV and her reviews are ok. Who did I think shitted on you?” he tweeted.