In the run-up to the new TV season, Eva Jinek gets a big blow from Jan Dijkgraaf, columnist and biographer of the Meilandjes. “She’s just an irrelevant good-for-nothing.”
After another incredibly long holiday, Eva Jinek will finally be seen on television again in three weeks. She will have Nick & Simon at the table in the season premiere of her talk show, who will then reveal whether they are indeed breaking up as a duo. Will that give Eva a spectacular start to the new season? She can use it well.
‘Eve is arrogant’
Eva’s viewing figures are under pressure and that is according to the men of the podcast Nasty Boys not so crazy. “She just became more unsympathetic at some point. I don’t know what it is exactly. Would she have become more arrogant? I don’t know. Too made?”, journalist Bas Paternotte wonders.
The well-known columnist Jan Dijkgraaf, also biographer of the Meilandjes, says: “I think the problem is, and you see that more often with people who fall up, that she no longer collects contradictions, but only fan girls.”
conciliation
At a certain point, Eva joined a kind of society of female journalists, the Zenneberaad, which included Sheila Sitalsing, Marcia Luyten and Antoinnette Scheulderman. “All successful women – handpicked by Wouke – who work hard and never complain about deprivation,” explained Antoinnette out at the time.
It has not done Eva any good, Jan fears. “Every media woman who was a bit hot was invited to attend and then they had dinner in a hotel in Noordwijk. All of those women who thought each other was fantastic, really the best. Also a network like: if you touch one of us, you touch all of us!”
Cheers
Eva was highly praised, according to Jan. “She was then hoisted on the shield by the other ten women, saying: she was the heroine. She was the new Mies Bouwman, the new Sonja Barend, better than Pauw and Witteman, she was going to make it all the way. If you get told often enough how great you are… I think that played a part.”
Jan also points out that ‘hard work’ is no longer an issue. “Her financial side has also changed a lot. She went to RTL for allegedly 1.2 million and everyone thought: well, he’s just going to run a talk show for nine months, comes to the editorial office at about four in the afternoon, works until eleven and goes home.”
Irrelevant idler
That mega salary has made Eva lazy, Jan thinks. “So it became about five months of work a year for those 1.2 million. So she really doesn’t have a talk show for at least half a year. And what does she say? ‘Yes, I also make documentaries!’ Then you will watch it on Videoland and again with her best friends! Some thing about women’s taboos.”
It consists of three half-hour episodes. “She would be working on that for the rest of the year.”
Jan is relentless: “You are a complete no-brainer if you only work for half a year. Then you are irrelevant.”