Angela de Jong thinks that Gordon would do well to stay away from the Netherlands for a year after his SBS 6 contract expires on December 1. “We are ready for that.”
Gordon says he does not want to be known at all, but of course he has complete control over the amount of media attention he receives. After all, now that he has disappeared from Instagram for the umpteenth time, articles about him hardly appear in the show media anymore. And as far as Angela de Jong is concerned, he continues this line in his work.
year in Dubai
Gordon’s contract with SBS 6 expires on December 1 and he is very happy with that because it is bumble with John de Mol. The entertainer’s TV adventure seems to be over for the time being. A switch to the NPO is extremely unlikely and RTL will not consider him for fear of damage to his image.
Shame? Angela thinks not. She applauds it AD Media podcast even up. “I watched some bits of Wat Een Invention a few times and yes, he does his very best to be the nice presenter. I think that the whole of the Netherlands is ready for Gordon to spend a year in Dubai. However?”
‘How is it possible?’
Colleague Marcus den Blanken wonders what went wrong with Gordon. “What I wonder: why is it that when he was still with RTL 4, things sometimes worked out and it was also nice to watch from time to time? But since he switched to Talpa, he has only done things for me that… Except with the 100-year-olds.”
That was a nice program, says Marcus. Angela then says in a measured way: “The first season, yes.”
Marcus: “For the rest, he has only done things that either do not suit him or where his role is not right. I then ask myself: how does something like this happen?”
On his way back
Angela thinks that Gordon was also in a downward spiral at RTL 4. “Even before he switched to SBS, he had been on his way back at RTL 4 for a long time. Really very few people watched it. Just like Wendy van Dijk. She was lucky that she still had The Voice, where she was in a format that attracts millions of viewers anyway.”
She continues: “But even if Wendy van Dijk had to do it alone, she wouldn’t put a dent in a pack of butter. So yes, that was also the case with Gordon. We had that whole row about that, because I had written that he was on his way out and he was so angry about that.”
Fierce Gordon
Gordon hit the mark on the description ‘on his return’. He was really in all states. “Then we had to sit down at De Wereld Draait Door in the evening, where he didn’t show up in the end. That was about that column. So yes, you know, that was very clear five years ago.”
She concludes: “But yes, John de Mol thought: if I just collect enough stars and build a kind of star transmitter with them, then it will be something. Well, history has shown several times that it doesn’t work that way. And now you see that too.”
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