It can hardly be more transparent: Rachel Hazes hands out croquettes to the technical crew of Holland Zingt Hazes in a video on Instagram. Nice self-mockery? “No, it’s too late for that.”
The image of Rachel Hazes is under serious pressure because of the many quarrels and lawsuits in which she is involved. And that seems to have a negative influence on the ticket sales of Holland Zingt Hazes, because the concert series is not sold out. Critics think that more and more people have a bad feeling about further enriching Rachel.
Self-deprecating Rachel?
With her image hitting the wallet, Rachel springs into action. She suddenly starts a kind of charm offensive: yesterday she posted a video on Instagram in which she hands out croquettes to the crew of Holland Zingt Hazes. It is of course a reference to her croquette shop with Yvonne Coldeweijer. She wanted a ban on the nickname ‘cremated croquette’.
Rachel’s PR plan seems to be working, because many people are now suddenly talking about ‘self-mockery’, also yesterday evening at the desk of Shownieuws. Bart Ettekoven: “I find that to be self-deprecating. We often disagree with her here at the table, but I kind of liked this one. I had to laugh about it.”
‘It is too late’
According to Yvonne Coldeweijer, however, it is too late to score with this ‘self-mockery’. “First you tax the entire Dutch legal system and now you make it into one big joke? This self-deprecation had been sympathetic before the trial. Not after. With every bite, everyone will now think of my juice. ? Thnx girl.”
Twitterer Scott agrees. “She should have done it right away, without a lawsuit.”
And a visitor to NU.nl: “This so-called playful action is a slap in the face to the judge and judiciary who are overburdened. First file a lawsuit yourself for nothing and then this.”
PR offensive
RH, who is also on the news site responds, questions Rachel’s motives. “Actually sounds to me like a PR offensive, recommended by some communication consultant (‘the damage has already been done, let’s try to give it a bit of a positive bend’).”
This commenter continues: “If it really came from herself, she had better think about it before she included it as a charge in that lawsuit.”