Linda de Mol has not been in the gym for over half a year because of all the hassle with Dirty Jeroentje. Will she soon return to TV with a triple double chin? “I’ll call her in September.”
It has now been seven months since Jeroen Rietbergen en plein publicly admitted that his nickname Dirty Jeroentje is completely justified. He has behaved like a rabbit out of control as the bandleader of The Voice of Holland. It was a public humiliation for his then lover Linda de Mol, who then abruptly disappeared from publicity.
Triple Double Chin
Should the general public feel sorry for Linda? That’s just the question. She had prior knowledge about the abuse at The Voice: she had known for years about at least one misbehavior by Jeroen and was silent within Talpa about girls who had reported to her magazine with horrific stories about coach Ali B. He is accused of rape.
Linda refuses to be questioned for the time being. Nowadays she plays a asylum seekers’ center to save her image, but otherwise little comes out of her hands. She hasn’t touched a dumbbell in seven months, according to her personal trainer Carlos Lens. Will we see Linda with a triple double chin on TV or will she finally get off the couch?
Linda back in gym
Carlos has agreed that he will start making Linda sweat again from September. “We will contact each other in September and then we will just pick up the thread again. Then everything starts again, the schools, the TV season. Also for me. So then we get to work,” he tells the weekly magazine Weekend.
Has Carlos warned her not to eat the stuffed cakes during her vale of tears? “We didn’t talk about nutrition, a time-out is a time-out. This is a private matter, so I’m not concerned with how many pounds she should lose or what exercises she should do. She just needs time to herself.”
ups and downs
According to Carlos, it is very understandable that Linda did not feel like exercising for half a year. “You have ups and downs in life. If people don’t feel well, there’s no point in putting an entire training schedule on them.”
“You take your customers into account. Linda has gone through a bad period. Then you talk about it: how do you feel? In good consultation, you took a break. Just as she has temporarily stopped with her magazine. A little rest, on vacation.”
Sober comeback
Linda returns to television after the summer, but it will be a sober comeback. For example, she returns with the modest quiz show Miljoenenjacht, but she has handed over the cheerful Ik Hou Van Holland to Rob Kemps.
According to Yvonne Coldeweijer, Linda is currently secretly again with Jeroen, although she suspects that tensions between the two have risen again because of the rumors about an affair with Ilse DeLange.