Natacha Harlequin was treated scandalously by Gijs Groenteman during the live broadcast of his talk show, according to media journalist Mark Koster. “Snobbery and media machismo!”
Criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin instantly became a well-known Dutch person through her role in the much-discussed racism special of VI. Nowadays she acts as an expert in Shownieuws, but she also occasionally appears in other media. So she was on the talk show on Monday evening Van Roosmalen & Groenteman from host Gijs Groenteman.
“Must be over!”
Gijs decides to immediately approach Natacha about her position in the show section of SBS 6. “But first: Show news. Yes, it has to end at some point, don’t you think?”
Natacha: “Certainly not. I have extended!”
Gijs: “Really? Would you actually do that, Natacha?”
Natacha: “Certainly, I will certainly do that.”
Arrogance
Gijs thinks it’s a bit wrong of her. “But don’t you tower far above that?”
Natacha: “I think it’s such arrogance to say that. That you tower over people.”
Gijs: “Well, arrogance… It’s just dignity, self-confidence…”
Natacha: “I have both of those and so do the other people.”
‘Where did you end up?!’
Gijs makes it clear that he looks down on Shownieuws. “Don’t you ever think: what have I gotten myself into?”
Natacha: You know, there was a time when I really had to think about who owns…”
Gijs: “Guido.”
Natacha: “No, who is Mart Hoogkamer? I had that for a while. I then said, “I totally missed it.” Then they said: ‘Bag, that is no longer possible. You just have to be aware of everything and everyone’, so now I’m in the middle of it. For Show News.”
Snobbery
Media journalist Mark Koster finds this seriously inappropriate, as he makes clear in his column The Telegraph. “The presenters of the BnnVara program were stuck in snobbery and media machismo.”
Gijs’s behavior is inappropriate, he thinks. “’Show news?’ he repeated and looked for a turd. He then also felt it necessary to ridicule Harlequin’s delivery.”
In other words: get rid of it, Mark seems to advise…