Robert ten Brink refuses to sign a 4-year contract with RTL 4, despite making the most important Christmas program of Dutch television. “I don’t do it anymore.”
It would be a great tradition that is lost if Robert ten Brink (69) will stop: the annual Christmas special of All You Need is Love. It costs something, but it is very important for the brand experience of RTL 4 that the whole country wants to watch that TV channel on Christmas Eve en masse. And Robert is of course an essential part of the show.
Not four years
Yet Robert does not see anything to be captured for a long time by TV boss Peter van der Vorst. He used to draw a four -year agreement, but he no longer does that. “I want to keep doing it, as long as I really like it. That is the luxury you have at some point,” he says in De Telegraaf.
He continues: “Of course it is the crux to stay ahead that nobody wants you anymore, that it will be a bit sad. I never did it because I like to hear myself talking so much. In the mounting room I always let that chatter cut out.”
‘Don’t exclude anything’
It seems that Robert almost excludes that he will be active in ten years as a host of All You Need Is Love. “But maybe I will present a different program in five years. I do not exclude anything. Although I can also lying on the couch and do nothing.”
He concludes: “There are no things in the field of television that I really want. Presenting a talk show, I think it is great that someone can do it, but it seems terrible to me.”