Bas Smit, Nicolette van Dam’s hysterical husband, has been invited to the Boekenbal because he wrote a travel guide last year. “The bankruptcy of the Boekenbal”, is the criticism.
Writing the travel guide The Netherlands Has Everything resulted in Bas Smit being invited to the Boekenbal. He was very exaggerated about that on Instagram yesterday. “Yeah, next month you will be standing between Kluun, Noort, Grunberg etc. at the Boekenbal. Yeah, just hang out there on the stairs with the bestselling authors.”
Bankrupt Book Ball
Bas even recorded an entire video to show his joy. “Well guys, you may think I’m kidding, but I’m really wild, because the Boekenbal, I’ve been wanting to go there all my life. That’s only for very intelligent, difficult people, very elitist. Well, we’ll just be there soon.”
Rens Muller, who was editor-in-chief of Veronica Magazine for many years and now runs Bicyling magazine, thinks it’s sad. “The bankruptcy of the Boekenbal”, he bits.
‘Long time bankrupt’
Star journalist Nick Kivits then: “Boekenbal has been bankrupt for a long time.”
Rens: “The final bankruptcy then.”
Vrij Nederland editor-in-chief Ward Wijndelts: “It’s funny that he has to pay. I don’t think that applies to all authors.”
in disrepute
Bas and Nicolette were discredited last month because they did not want to distance themselves from the misbehavior of their good friend Lil Kleine.
“There are also a lot of people who are very quiet. I don’t immediately want to point fingers at Bas Smit or Nicolette van Dam, but those are people who have worked with him a lot and have spent a lot of time with him, also on social media. And I don’t hear about it. I think that’s a shame,” said Weekend boss Bart Ettekoven, for example.
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