It is still unclear what the health situation of Paulien Cornelisse is, but she has already been announced as the new jury member of De Slimste Mens. “Is she fit enough for that?”
Paulien Cornelisse becomes the successor of Maarten van Rossem as a jury member in De Slimste Mens. She debuts immediately after the summer, when the new television season starts. It is a striking timing, because it is just a little longer than a year after cancer was found at her. She had to cancel her entire theater tour.
Not yet recovered
The last thing the general public knows about this is that Paulien was still being treated two months ago. The disaster was not yet averted, it sounded. “For this I thought that if you get cancer you are unhappy 24 hours a day. That turns out not to be the case at all.”
It is unclear how exactly Paulien is doing and that does raise some questions at Angela de Jong. How is that going with Paulien? Of course Loretta Schrijver was also on a channel for years while she had cancer, but of course the situation is different for every patient.
Fit enough?
Ad-Opiniediva Angela de Jong wonders how exactly Paulien is doing. “She is sick and we don’t know how she is doing, but the fact that they are bringing this out now, says that she is good enough to tackle this job,” she tells the New Revu.
Can Paulien take it to run such a quiz? “She is the only one who can decide whether she is fit enough for this. It is nice to see that she apparently can handle this, that gives hope.”
Surprising
Angela is pretty positive. “I find her a surprising choice and cleverly kept secret by Kroncrv. Whether the chemistry with Herman van der Zandt will also work, we can only see that on television. If that is not, I will not be too bad to write it down.”
She concludes: “I also really like that she does not look like Maarten. He is irreplaceable and you should not try to put a second Maarten there. You don’t find that and everything will be less than the original.”