Wendy van Dijk looks back for the first time on her painful TV interview in Bar Laat, where she was questioned quite critically by Sophie Hilbrand. “This happened after the broadcast.”
Wendy van Dijk was shocked recently: she was discredited because of strange statements about the Hilversum protocols against toxic work environments, and that is really not good for your image. After all, as the figurehead of a family channel, you are expected to keep in line with policy measures that protect TV employees.
Wendy grumbling
In any case, things are starting a little for Wendy too much to become all. “Every time I go to play in the studio now, I receive a how-we-are-we-getting-together document. A lot has changed in the way we now make television, but we are all going a bit too far,” she grumbled in the VARA guide.
So this is how the presenter really thinks about it, but she had apparently forgotten that she was venting her heart to a journalist… A day after the commotion that arose, Wendy sat at the table with Sophie Hilbrand in Bar Laat and pretended that she meant that you are almost no longer allowed to talk about The Voice. A hilarious twist of her own statements.
Critical Sophie
Funnily enough, Sophie was quite critical of Wendy. She didn’t just let the presenter get away with that silly excuse and decided to actually read her own quote repeatedly. So painful, but Wendy kept beating around the bush and eventually managed to maneuver herself out of that predicament. The result? Compliments from Johan Derksen. Oh dear.
How does Wendy look back on that interview? She’s signing up this weekend The Telegraph: “What I meant is that I find it difficult to talk about The Voice, for example. There was a former participant of The Voice Kids behind Sophie at Bar Laat.”
Crooked eyes
What did that contestant from The Voice Kids say? “He came to me after the broadcast and said that he had a fantastic time on that program. He hardly dared to say that to people anymore for fear of crooked eyes.”
Eh, what kind of nonsense is that? If you stood there as a bigwig on the studio floor you might get crooked eyes, but a candidate? Of course not. Anyway: “Sophie stood by this conversation and said, ‘Maybe we should talk about that separately.’”
Big and angry
Anyway: Wendy actually doesn’t like all that criticism at all. “It is becoming the big, bad world. There is so much attention in the media about negativity.”
She will probably find it negative, but does Wendy also see that all her shows on SBS 6 flopped? “I know where I stepped in by working with John de Mol. He doesn’t want to buy hits. Like: guys, this is a proven format abroad, so we will also score with it. He wants to make hits himself. Then something can sometimes not work as well.”
Ah, thankfully, Wendy has her feelings for it understatement not lost yet.