An employee of Sterren op het Doek has resigned after inappropriate behavior on set. The case is separate from the complaints about Özcan Akyol’s intimidating looks.
Things can never be normal in the TV world: now it appears that transgressive behavior has taken place again on the set of Sterren op het Doek. Özcan Akyol’s program, which was previously presented by Hanneke Groenteman, is yet another TV title where an unsafe working environment prevailed.
Unfairly treated
A female employee of Sterren op het Doek felt treated so unfairly that she left the media and now runs her own coffee bar. She allegedly complained to the producer of the program: Mediawater. “If I had known, I would have intervened and done something about it,” MAX boss Jan Slagter responds. The Telegraph.
Jan says he was never informed by the production company. “We will see whether we can always place our own people on the floor during productions for MAX from now on to prevent excesses.”
Intimidating looks
Does this have anything to do with the complaints about Özcan Akyol’s intimidating looks? In 2022, a female employee felt so unsafe because of the presenter that she went to the confidential counselor three times. “It wasn’t sexual, it was intimidating. So she felt unsafe because of that. She was scared,” he previously admitted.
No, it has nothing to do with that, says journalist Mark Koster, who recorded Jan’s reaction for De Telegaf, on X. “Jan Slagter just reported that the inappropriate behavior concerned an editor-in-chief. He is said to have had fits of rage and was fired in his second season. Producer Mediawater therefore immediately intervened.”
Jan is furious
Where this whole story comes from? NPO’s star interviewer Coen Verbraak and his editors discovered this during the preparations for the TV broadcast ‘Your limit, my limit’ about misconduct in the media world. They presented this to Jan Slagter during an interview, but he is now completely furious.
Jan says that he was lured to that interview under false pretenses and now wants his part to be cut from the program. If they don’t, he will file summary proceedings. What a drama queen. “I wouldn’t pay anything to take it out,” Coen responds.
Man enough
Barbara van der Klis, the editor-in-chief of the program, also thinks that Jan is being very hysterical. “Jan Slagter is man enough to defend himself in a broadcast about inappropriate behavior. He responded fine. Nothing wrong. I don’t understand what he’s worried about.”
Your Limit, My Limit will be broadcast on television after the publication of the report on misconduct at the NPO.