Tina Nijkamp participated in Temptation Island in the distant past. Not as a seductress, but as a coach of the then presenter Viktor Brand. “It was 21 years ago.”
After Peter Gillis: Massa is Kassa, it is perhaps the most controversial program in the Netherlands: the vulgar seduction show Temptation Island. Is this still possible in 2023? After a commotion in the media, RTL has decided to close things down for now on hold but that sounds more like postponement and not adjustment.
Temptation Tina
What does ratings rascal Tina Nijkamp think? Yesterday she sat at the table with Renze Klamer. “Tina, I read that you once went on one of those recording trips for Temptation Island,” the host said Renze on Sunday.
Tina agrees. “Yes, quite a coincidence with the second series actually. That was in 2002. That was 21 years ago, so this program already existed then. Then I was a presenter’s coach, so I had nothing to do with the production myself, but I was the coach of Viktor Brand, now a well-known SBS presenter. He presented that once.”
‘Don’t like it’
Tina was at the filming in that capacity. “I had never seen it myself, because I lived in Australia before. I have to be honest: I never actually saw it again after that. I just don’t like it, I think it’s very negative, a very negative program. That’s a personal taste, isn’t it?
Fellow table guest Farid Azarkan: “I thought that program was also intended to make people suffer from that. They challenge that too, so I’m not surprised that problems are being experienced. Isn’t that the intention?”
Time to stop?
Tina agrees: “The design is indeed a relationship test. Of course, those people choose to participate, but it is not the first time that there has been a commotion about this format. This is the most negative of all reality programs: testing relationships. Perhaps it is just time for channel bosses and also for program makers to think…
Renze: “It was nice?”
Tina: “Maybe. Yes…”
Business interest
Tina thinks it’s a good thing that Peter van der Vorst has put the whole thing on hold. “I get that. Even for him, if you look at it from a business perspective, it is simply a very well-watched program.”
Frits Wester stands up for his employer: “I’m not going to say much about it, because Peter van der Vorst, our boss, is busy with it all, but yes… Think about it before you start such a program. Do you want to become known quickly? Do you want to make money quickly? Do you want to make money afterwards? You know the format.”
Doesn’t the guidance fall short? No, says Frits. “The guidance is fantastic!