So, Mike Hansler and his dominant mother Monique from the TV hit Winter Vol Liefde have come home from a rude awakening. They really got the full brunt yesterday in Shownieuws…
You can sense from everything that it is a nasty family: the Hanslers from the RTL 4 dating show Winter Vol Liefde. The docile Mike Hansler and his dominant mother Monique can be seen from Monday with their own soap on SBS 6, in the famous Chateau Meiland timeslot. Who else is on the poster? His, now, ex Denise van der Laan.
Unkind and mean
Denise was not allowed to tell her that she had been dumped by Mike for months, but when he and his mother started doing PR things, she found the lie too painful. She tearfully confirmed in RTL Boulevard that their relationship has long since ended and that she is very sad, including how Monique treated her.
The previews that SBS 6 broadcasts are indeed telling: in a now infamous fragment you can see the nasty way in which Monique imitates her then daughter-in-law. But also that Monique doesn’t want Denise’s things in her moving van. All very unkind and mean.
No PR conversation
Mike and Monique were in Shownieuws last night and while they must have expected an uncritical PR conversation – they all now work for SBS 6 – they were really pushed into a corner by experts Eline de Ruig and Patty Brard, and the presenter Eva Vloon.
Patty: “If we’re moving and you say: ‘It’s my car and her things aren’t allowed with it!’, I feel so sad.”
In the end, those things were allowed to be taken along, Mo objects. Eva: “Yes, but it didn’t go well.”
Much sadness
Eline indicates that she has been in contact with Denise, who has clearly been used for an exciting storyline in the new soap series. “I spoke to her today and she is actually very sad about it.”
Monique: “Yes, I don’t understand that at all, because I still have contact with her and when that happened, at our house, we talked about it and laughed about it. Imitating that voice. We grabbed each other.”
Eline: “In any case, she is now very sad about it.”
‘Very strange’
Monique doesn’t recognize herself in it. “Yes, I find that very strange, because I spoke to her on the phone a week and a half ago and she never mentioned it to me. Never. I think there is something else going on with her. Of course, she misses us too. She also said to me: ‘We had such a nice bond together.'”
Eva then turns to the silent Mike: “It now seems as if we are talking about the break between you and Denise, but you had a relationship with her. What was your role in all this, and: was my mother nice to her?”
Discussions
Mike then gets to speak for a few seconds. “I have of course also had discussions with my mother about how things could be done less occasionally. I have also discussed it with Denise and she constantly took it as a joke and did not let me know that she minded.”
Patty: “But she was also a little sad today about how she was left behind, wasn’t she?”
Eline: “Of course she also moved to Spain with all her belongings, hoping for a bright future, and in one fell swoop that passed and she no longer has contact with you. How could things have gone so wrong?”
Relationship breakdown
Mike doesn’t want to say anything about the breakup, because it could cost ratings. “Yes, of course I can’t say much about that, because you will see how that happened in the series!”
Monique: “Yes, otherwise the series won’t be fun anymore if we tell everything! People should just watch it, man. Do you know what it is? It’s just so much fun to watch.”
Patty cynical: “Towards the breakup?”
Monique: “A lot of things happen in the series. Yes, a breakup, okay, but if you watch you can see how it all went.”
‘Why on TV?’
Patty has the idea that Mike and Monique are really camera horny. “Why do you really want to be on TV so much?”
Monique: “I don’t want to be on TV at all. That just happened to us.”
Eva: “But you don’t have to, do you, if you don’t want to?”
Monique: “No, of course we don’t have to, but we really enjoyed it. There are a lot of people who like us and love us.”
‘Call her!’
Eline thinks it’s strange that Mike didn’t even call his ex Denise after her tears in Boulevard. “You don’t feel the need to call her when you see her at RTL Boulevard? You can see that she is sad.”
When Mo starts to answer, Eline says sternly: “No, I’ll ask Mike, sorry.”
Mike: “Several things have happened, but I can’t say anything about them.”
Why are those two teasing everything so much for the ratings? “Of course you know a little about how that works. You have to adhere to certain rules. If I tell you everything now, people will no longer have to watch the series.”
Not to BLVD
Monique blames Denise for revealing a storyline, namely the breakup, prematurely. “Denise should not have gone to Boulevard at all. When you sign a contract, you have to adhere to the rules and she went outside her book. That is not right and it is stupid that Denise did that. She could also have talked to her psychologist!”
Suddenly Eva cuts things off. “I would say: call each other!”
Wow, that PR conversation clearly didn’t go as the Hanslers had hoped. One thing is certain: there is certainly no favorability factor. Meiland figures? They are not included…