Bridget Maasland has a strange aftertaste about Anouk giving an interview to Matthijs van Nieuwkerk. “She really stood up straight away at The Voice at the time.”
Anouk has released a new album and she has chosen Matthijs van Nieuwkerk to be the first to interview her in detail about it. And not everyone is very enthusiastic about that. For example, Bram Moszkowicz is very critical of the interview: “I have my doubts about sharing a feather with each other.”
Bridget sneers
Why did Anouk choose someone who has not yet been fully rehabilitated after his misconduct? Because he also interviewed her last time, Rob Goossens thinks. “I think she now thought: shit, now that circus is coming again, I have to launch it somehow, how am I going to provide that safe environment?”
Bridget Maasland then sneers in the BLVD Podcast: “But a safe environment and Mathijs van Nieuwkerk is of course a contradiction.”
Rob: “Yes, that’s the interesting paradox here. And at the same time, yes, the most terrible people can be a very sweet father to a child.”
Weird aftertaste
Bridget herself would have made a different choice, she says. “Of course he really loves music. We have always been able to see that in De Wereld Draait Door and also in the programs he made afterwards, so that’s how I understand it. But somehow I also have a bit of a strange aftertaste.”
About what then? “About the fact that Anouk immediately stood up at The Voice when it came to transgressive behavior and she never wanted to work with that again. And now on the other hand, she would like to work with someone else who also has something accomplished. And the investigation has not yet been completed.”
Special head
Rob understands those feelings. “I don’t think there is much point in trying to understand Anouk at all. I think she has a very special head. But yeah, it’s… Yeah, I can’t disagree with you. Yes, Matthijs is accused of other things, but it is all transgressive behavior.”
The DWDD victims will feel screwed by Anouk, Rob thinks. “Yes, of course she never had to deal with Matthijs’ tirades in DWDD, but the people who prepare her items did. And yes, I am really curious how those people who always worked with her look back on this set.”
Not logical
Fellow entertainment expert Eric de Munck is also critical. “Yes, and also in the place where it was, because it was in the Light Factory, near the DWDD studio. They didn’t really talk about it at all. Anouk also said: ‘Yes, he was the first person I thought of and so it had to be him.’ I think: yes, okay, but that doesn’t necessarily make sense to me.”
He concludes: “I especially liked the tone and that they didn’t talk about it… That they were both so happy to see each other again, while I think: she indeed railed so vehemently against Ali B and all those people from The Voice . So extreme. And now, sweetheart, they sat there like two teenagers in love, finishing that interview.”
Bridget: “It felt a bit ambiguous, especially because it wasn’t talked about.”