Martien Meiland is thrown in front of the bus on his own SBS 6. The men of VI lift a corner of the veil about the upcoming scandal book: “He does parking *ks.”
Despite their special family structure, the Meilandjes fit in seamlessly with the SBS 6 target group: nice and ‘normal’ and a bit right-wing conservative. Pater familias Martien Meiland is a hysteric, but in any case anti-Pride. “Those crazy men who then dance on such a boat with leather laces through their buttocks… Terrible!”
Spicy pass
After his stigmatizing statements about the Canal Parade, will Martien now have a taste of his own medicine? Or is Today Inside quite out of line? Yesterday, Wilfred Genee read the first passage from the forthcoming scandal book about the Meilandjes, based on the story of the ‘exiled family friend’ Caroline van Eeden.
According to Evert Santegoeds, writer Valérie Lempereur is friends with Wilfred, so it is not surprising that he got hold of that passage. It is very striking what is in that passage, because – whether it is true or not – it changes Martien’s ‘neat’ image forever. And should VI let itself be harnessed for that cart?
Closed buttocks
René van der Gijp understands why the Meilandjes seem so nervous about Caroline’s book. “He’s been sitting on the chair with his buttocks squeezed shut for two weeks, hasn’t he? He normally never does! Normally the tickets are open! But now he is sitting on the chair with his buttocks squeezed”, begins the football analyst, who clearly has a lot of anticipation.
He continues: “That Caroline has written a book and it shows that Martien regularly visits those parking spaces where he then goes for a stroll through those bushes and then he does not shout: ‘Wines, wines, wines!’, no, then he shouts: “N**k, n**k, n**k!” haha! And then you have to wait until you meet someone!”
Johan Derksen calls that behavior ‘unusual’.
Wilfred reads
Wilfred then begins to read the passage from the book. “Erica is sitting on the couch with Caroline and Martien and then Erica asks her husband: ‘You don’t have to tell in detail what you’re doing, but explain what happens when you get there’, Erica asks , ‘in such a parking lot.’”
Then Martien says: “Well, Eer, that’s so exciting, you park, get out and walk into the bushes, and you know what struck me? That there are many cars with child seats in the back seat. So you go into the bushes and then you walk in circles. Along the way you meet men who are also walking around there and if you see someone sitting there, you give a nod, because talking is not allowed.”
Pants back on
Martien continues in the book: “If the other person answers your nod, you have a prize, and then you look for a sheltered spot together and then you do the deed. You don’t kiss. When you’re done, pull up your pants and leave. Sometimes it takes almost fifteen minutes, but it also happened that I had to frolic for an hour before I saw something that I liked.”
He continues: “That is annoying, because I don’t want to spend that much time on it, but I had found a solution: I walked against the clock, then I see men coming from afar and I can wait a little longer for them .”
Wilfred concludes the quote: “Finally Erica gets up in a rage and leaves the room.”
Ordinary dirt spray
Martien can of course do what he wants, but the fact is that his relatively conservative target group does not recognize themselves at all in this kind of – for them – obscenities. So it has an effect on his image anyway and, according to Johan, this is actually ‘ordinary muck spraying’, but still there is understanding in VI for ‘the exiled house friend Caroline’.
Johan: “Of course this bothers such a woman so much that he has sold many books over her back.”
Neat parking
Wilfred: “And also told everything about her, that’s what it’s all about in the end. All proceeds from this book go to charity.
Johan: “That is noble of that lady then.”
Wilfred: “Well, well, it is.”
What their guest Alexander Pechtold, boss of the CBR, thinks of Martien’s parking lot adventures? “As long as he parks neatly.”