Renze Klamer sometimes wakes up Angela de Jong all night when he arranges her again for a meeting in Amsterdam. “Sometimes it just gets three o’clock in the morning,” says the Ad-Diva.
Although she nowadays has strong competition from Tina Nijkamp, Angela de Jong is still a welcome guest in talk shows on television. Renze Klamer also invites her regularly, but since his talk show is recorded in Amsterdam and she lives in Rotterdam, there is of course the necessary travel time.
Work ethic
It sometimes leads to broken nights in Huize-De Jong. How exactly is that? “Take yesterday. At half past seven the alarm went off. At half past eight I was in the car to the Mediaforum on Radio 1, a quarter to twelve I was home,” she starts in the Nouveau.
And then? “Ticking my column, then reading an interview with the Humo reading and approving, then delivering a quote for a section in Nieuwe Revu, the newspaper called with anything and everything and in the evening to bar. I was in it at two o’clock and this morning the alarm went again at eight o’clock.”
Maybe Renze
It goes on, says Angela. “Ticking another column, now the interview with you, then a guest in a radio program and maybe Tonight Renze. Sometimes it is three hours before I have seen all the programs that I think I should see.”
Such a Renze can keep her awake all night. “Fortunately I can go with little sleep. I go very well on a diet of cortisol and adrenaline. I don’t know better either. My one grandfather was a farmer, my other grocer. They were both from early until late. Their mentality was: only to bed when the work is finished. I have that too.”
Rolled in
But Angela does not have to do that? “Once the editor -in -chief of the AD then asked me if I wanted to be the face of the newspaper. That meant that I would be going to shift in talk shows. I promised to do that and I do that too. But I also work a lot from home, it is not that I am gone all day.”
“In between, I also see my family relatively often. Well, I just rolled in here and with my character I can’t say no so easily. Although that would be better, occasionally.”