It could hardly be more raunchy: Rachel Hazes uses the argument with her daughter Roxeanne to get her real-life soap sold to SBS 6. “And so there is another revenue model!”
Rachel Hazes has taken over a brasserie on the Spanish coast and would like to sell a real-life soap about it to SBS 6. Test recordings are taking place with which she hopes to convince the channel. But it now turns out: yesterday she also took a camera crew to the court in Amsterdam, where she stood diametrically opposite her daughter.
Rachel’s camera crew
Actually, Roxeanne absolutely did not want to, but Rachel forced her: she had to testify yesterday in one of her many lawsuits. Mother and daughter are completely at odds, but Rachel continues to tease Rox. Show news has discovered that Rachel has brought the camera crew from her real-life soap to court.
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker (a good friend of Rachel) says: “Vincent TV, the producer of the Meilandjes, is currently filming Rachel’s new career in La Carihuela and they were suddenly present here in Amsterdam at the court . Yes, that does indicate that perhaps a bigger picture is being created.”
Dyantha stunned
Presenter Dyantha Brooks finds it tough that Rachel calls her daughter against her will in a lawsuit, but you can still look at that from a business perspective. “But when you talk about that series, you can watch it as a family and think as a mother: well, I’m not going to film at that court, because then I’ll also take my daughter with me there?”
Guido: “This is really Rachel’s obvious sense of justice. I have personally told her that sometimes, that she can sometimes loosen the reins a little. She simply stands for what she can prove – or so she thinks. She stands for justice. (…) She is apparently making a reality soap and this is also part of it.”
‘I don’t understand this’
Colleague Natacha Harlequin thinks Guido’s explanation makes no sense. “What does that have to do with the sense of justice? I understood it at the hearing, but I can’t follow this one at the moment.”
Guido: “Rachel is someone who is completely transparent. Everything what you see is what you get. According to many people, that is not always a very motherly feeling, but she at least shows what is apparently happening in her life. We don’t know exactly how that soap will develop. I think she wants to show in this way: I have nothing to hide.”
Complicate
Anouk Smulders thinks it is unwise of Rachel. “The bond that exists only makes it more difficult to make that choice. That it not only remains a business thing, but that you will also involve that documentary with that image.”
Guido: “On the other hand, it also makes it more difficult if, as a daughter, you start calling your mother a client, you know. They have ended up in a very negative spiral, from which they simply cannot get out. Everyone – I was recently talking about it with Gerard Joling – who knows the Hazes family wants things to turn out well. They are dear to me too, all of them.”
One-sided Guido
Surprisingly enough – you don’t often see self-reflection at Shownieuws – Dyantha then accuses her colleague Guido of one-sided reporting. “They are all dear to you, but I notice that you always only look at it from Rachel’s perspective.”
Guido: “No, not at all. Only I think: Rachel is also someone I know well and I think that she always gets blamed and I think I can say – as a journalist and as someone who knows her well – that many things are really like she says so.”
Revenue model
Film expert René Mioch doesn’t think Rachel is a good mother. “With that camera crew, you know, it’s intimidating, because mom comes with a camera crew.”
Dyantha: “I can imagine that you are thinking: yes, then there is another revenue model.”
Guido: “If André or Roxeanne release a new record, camera crews will also come.”
Dyantha: “Yes, that is very different from being in court.”