Nicolette Kluijver has been in the news all the time lately because she is playing the do-gooder in Africa. She has opened some hotel there, but there is one problem: “The money has run out.”
The way in which Nicolette Kluijver and her new boyfriend are playing do-gooder in Africa is causing discomfort among critics. She publishes all kinds of photos and videos in which she is surrounded by grateful African children and thus portrays herself as the ‘white savior’, according to the criticism. “She has a plate for her head!”, shouted Mark Koster.
Priceless
Nicolette and sweetheart Milan have opened a hotel in Gambia, but there is really nothing to do in the immediate vicinity of that hotel. Yet she offers eighteen rooms. “Yes. All in all, we have been renovating the entire hotel for about six months. Yes, that went quite quickly. We have also been very busy,” she says in the Weekend.
Almost at the same time they also bought a new house in the Netherlands, closer to her ex, so that their children do not have to taxi up and down all the time. “It is a ruin, because otherwise it would have been unaffordable. So everything still has to be done. But we are just doing everything at the same time.”
‘Money is gone’
All of Nicolette’s RTL TV channels went to that African hotel. “It all comes out of our own pocket, so at a certain point there was no money left for the hotel floor. Then we bought broken tiles and laid a mosaic floor from them. We are getting very creative, yes, for sure.”
Commuting back and forth to Gambia is also very expensive. How does she do that? “We are now going there in the autumn with the children, but after that the intention is that the staff will run it themselves. So hopefully we won’t have to go there too often, because if we don’t have to go back often, that means things are going well.”
Broken tiles
If Nicolette’s money runs out so quickly, how will she arrange the renovation of her own house? Is she also going to lay a floor there made of broken tiles? “No, so that means hard work. But I don’t like expensive bags anyway, I drive a nice car, I don’t have any jewelry.”
“All the money I have will go into the hotel and our house. We are going to renovate our house in such a way that hopefully if we ever sell it, we will have something left with it.”