So, Sylvie Meis is really being put through the wringer in the influential Telegraaf. She is honored on television by Antoinnette Scheulderman, but does not come out well. “Terrible!”
Who is Sylvie Meis? She probably doesn’t even remember it herself. In front of Antoinnette Scheulderman’s camera — she is currently making the program De Geur van Succes about celebrities who consider themselves successful — she appears very plastic. There is little humanity in it. It’s more the smell of emptiness than the smell of success.
Creepy laugh
You may wonder whether Sylvie would benefit from giving such an interview at all, because if you have nothing to say, it is better to let the picture do the talking. Now she gets a hard one bash by The Telegraph over himself.
Mark Koster, the newspaper’s TV columnist, is truly relentless. He wrote an article with the headline: ‘Sylvie Meis’s scary laugh was the only exciting thing in the boring series about being successful’.
Peeling away egos
A series about successful people could be interesting, but Antoinnette decided to focus mainly on egomaniac celebrities. “The program mainly peels away egos,” says Mark. “At least that’s what Scheulderman tried to do. He was always looking for the special success gene. That’s often not there.”
For example, Sylvie has no special talent at all, he emphasizes. “Meis is a lady who portrays herself as a businesswoman, while she has been very lucky because of her marriage to Rafael van der Vaart. That left her with millions and the opportunity to showcase herself in Germany.”
Terrifying
In general, Sylvie has made good use of the opportunity she has had, he thinks. “You can have a certain admiration for that. Scheulderman does that just too much.”
The most embarrassing passage? “Sylvie said that people were obsessed with her, followed by a scary laugh. Success is boring, but mental abnormalities in stars are not. It would have been better to make a series about that.”
Phew…