Bridget Maasland expects that many more Matthijs van Nieuwkerk-dirt comes out. “This is the tip of the iceberg.”
Matthijs van Nieuwkerk has been canceled for the second time in a short time: after BNNVARA, RTL has now also more or less put him on hold. The public broadcaster did this because of verbal misconduct in the workplace, the commercial broadcaster because of brand new allegations in the field of physical and sexual misconduct.
Sexually available?
At DWDD it was considered normal for male managers to sleep with female colleagues in subordinate positions. “Women were no longer welcome in the editorial office after the termination of a sexual relationship with a higher-ranking person,” the Van Rijn committee report states.
Employees have also been asked to ‘facilitate the appearance and sexual preferences of managers’. “Partly because of these types of experiences, according to them, there was the impression in the workplace that appearance and sexual availability played a role in making decisions about appointments or contract extensions for women.”
Bought off for 20K
An employee who had become Matthijs’ mistress at De Wereld Draait Door ultimately had to be bought off with 20,000 euros when the affair was over. What craziness.
Bridget Maasland is not surprised. She agrees The BLVD Podcast: “I have to be very honest with you: when the Volkskrant article came out at the time, I honestly thought, given what we all heard in the corridors and what was buzzing behind the scenes, that it would actually be about something completely different. to go.”
Tip of the iceberg
Colleague Rob Goossens agrees. “Yes, about the relationships in his editorial office.”
Bridget then: “Yes. That it was about sexual misconduct. And now the tip of the iceberg is slowly emerging. And I am not talking about the private sphere, because what you do in your private time is entirely up to you, but I am talking about the balance of power. A presenter with an intern.”
The tip of the iceberg? That means that, according to Bridget, a lot more dirt will come out.
Scandal king
That behavior is reprehensible, says Rob. “Then you are supposedly playing the Champions League, but the non-functioning but beautiful girls are allowed to stay. And others who simply provide substantive criticism of a decision are singled out.”
With Matthijs, your competence was apparently subordinate to your cup size. Bridget: “But that didn’t come out at the time. That is slowly coming out a bit now. Matthijs isn’t retarded, is he? He certainly knows what did and didn’t happen. And he also knows that this is not the way. Or he really doesn’t see it, but that also says a lot…”
From screen hero to scandal king…