Maxime Meiland currently does not have enough money to stop working for the rest of her life. So she still has to keep going. “Nice behind the cash register at Albert Heijn, that’s also great!”
It surprises many people: how can it be that the Meilandjes on their own initiative pull the plug on their lucrative SBS 6 show Chateau Meiland when so many people are still watching it? Erica and Martien Meiland may think it’s enough, but Maxime Meiland is only 30 and still has about fifty years to go.
Enough money?
There is only a Christmas series from Chateau Meiland coming up, says Maxime. “Yes, we had already agreed on that Christmas series, so we couldn’t get away from that,” she says Radio 538.
Is it a must? “No, no, no.”
538 sidekick Niels van Baarlen then: “What are you going to do? You’re 30!”
Colleague Rick Romijn: “Can you live quietly for the rest of your life? Have you earned enough money?”
All millionaires
Maxime immediately denies this. “No, nooooo! No!”
Rick: “It was written in a magazine somewhere that you have all become millionaires.”
Maxime: “Yes, no, that’s really disappointing. Hahaha. No, we’re doing really well, but it’s not like I can say now: ‘I’m going to retire!’ Other than that, I wouldn’t even want to. What should I do at home all day? That makes me very unhappy.”
Good question
What will Maxime do then? “Yes, that is a very good question. I don’t know. I really don’t know. We happened to be talking about it yesterday: Looking for the Talent of the Meilandjes, like: what are you going to do next?
Is a kind of Joling & Gordon Over De Vloer nothing? “Yes, but then I have to be alone!”
And what about daddy Martien? “No, he’s really going to say: ‘Girl, I’m packing the eel, I’m definitely not going with you!’ Of course, he is really fed up with it.”
‘Don’t know’
Maxime still has to think about it. “No, I don’t know, guys. Look, we’ve been doing it for so many years and we’ve done so many episodes that you’re always busy with the series. Maybe I won’t do anything on TV anymore and I know… Nice behind the counter at Albert Heijn, that’s fine too!”
A quiz? “No. No. No.”
A housing program then? “I would like that better. That fits more. Yes, that fits more.”