It is nothing new that our province is the main supplier of unforgettable reality TV. After iconic titles such as the stylist of the south, Massa is cash register and the Bauers, to name only a few, the lenses of Medialand are aimed at the village of Sint Willebrord from Thursday. In the new St. Willebrord series: the Miracle of Brabant, the residents hope to deal with the prejudices once and for all.
With a bombastic intro and a slick voice-over, the inhabitants of St. Willebrord pop through the image tube into the living rooms of the Netherlands. On Thursday evening the new series of RTL premiered and everyone was able to watch with the story of a number of striking residents of the village.
And for the inquisitive reality show wasters among us, the series starts well. This way the tone is immediately set with a small history lesson over the village. After the Second World War, reconstruction began in the Netherlands, with prosperity increasing. Except in ‘t Heike (the nickname of the village), great poverty continued. With the series, the inhabitants want to get rid of the bad image that still sticks to the village.
In the first episode of the series we go in a nutshell along a number of striking residents of the village. For example, we see how hairdresser Dante tells how he ended up in the village, we saw how mother Corrie and daughter Linda tackle the driveway with a bottle of chlorine and how butcher’s daughters Abony and Esmee prepare to take over the butcher’s empire of their father.
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With the prejudices about the place of pilgrimage (there is a replica of the Lourdes cave in the village), the series is already made short in the series. “People see it wrong here,” says Nagelstylist Karina as she ferstened on a set of acrylic nails. “They think we are a fight right away and ignore someone when they come here, that’s not.”
“They call us knife tractors.”
And candy owners Arjan and Jessica are also happy to deal with the negative stereotypes hanging around the village. “They call us knife tractors,” says Jessica, who has immortalized her love for the village in a tattoo on her buttock.
Dante, who only came to the village at a later age, was told the wild stories. “People said for no gold I would go to St. Willebrord,” he says as he highlights a woman’s hair. “If they know there that you are foreigners and gay, they will put you with a knife, they said.” He still depts some paint on the outgrowth of the customer. “But they received me here with two open arms.”
“Everything for the young.”
“If something happens here, it is always blown up very much. If one is stabbed here, then it will be three days in the newspaper. If it happens in Roosendaal, it will be over after a day,” her husband Arjan adds. “Because we have the name.”
Ziezo, the dirty laundry is hung outside and then a few real lessons from the village remain. In this way the residents do everything for ‘Het Jong’. “The car is already in front of the door when they turn eighteen,” says the semi -diverged woman from Dante’s hairdressing chair.
Properheid is also at the top of the list (so even the roof of the house is vacuumed) and work is done too hard.
One thing is certain, in Reality TV Landscape in Brabant, the series has already won a good place.
