According to VI, Leonie ter Braak left SBS 6 because she wanted to make more serious TV, but at RTL 4 she now does a lot of meaningless entertainment. “She turns out to be a clown!”
If Leonie ter Braak had the ambition to profile herself with socially involved programs, she did not really succeed. She is under contract with RTL, but only does rather crappy programs there. From blowing up balloons in Blow Up to playing a panel member in programs such as Beste Viewers and Does he or she doesn’t.
Clown from RTL
From journalistic talent to RTL’s court jester: things can change. It’s all starting to come as a bit of a surprise to Private star journalist Jan Uriot, in his own words. “I worked with her, but she wasn’t that funny then, but she is now,” he says in his column What does Jan think?
He continues: “She is becoming a bit of a clown on RTL and then I think: honey, be careful with her, because she is in every panel at the moment. And then you’ve finished the program, then you get a commercial break and then she rolls through the screen again in a Wehkamp commercial. She’s a bit…”
Joke
A little bit what? Co-host Pim Sedee adds: “A thousand things towel…”
Yes, actually, says Jan. “Haha. She is becoming the joke of RTL. That’s all fine, but she can never seriously do a program like Goedemorgen Nederland or read the news again. That is no longer possible, of course. She is becoming a bit of a comedian.”
Switch
Pim thinks that Leonie just does what she is told. “But yes, it is in your contract, and it is never too late to make a switch, right, Jan?”
One consolation for Leonie: if she wants to create contentless and substantive content at the same time, she can always go to De Telegraaf. Pim knows all about it…