Wendy van Dijk once again gets a good old-fashioned scolding from Angela de Jong, which she so hated. The opinion diva thinks that the presenter still presents much too childish.
TV columnist Angela de Jong gets the jitters from the new program Liedje op het Eerste Sight, which Wendy van Dijk presents together with Edsilia Rombley. It’s just really bad and according to the dreaded AD woman, that is partly due to the presentation. Or, rather, really only by Wendy.
Bad ratings
Her colleague journalist Dennis Jansen discusses the program in the AD Media podcast. “I wasn’t surprised, I wasn’t fascinated, I really didn’t like it,” he says.
Angela goes over that for a while. “I actually find it sad that you dare to broadcast this.”
She also points to the low ratings of the musical dating show: 463 thousand people watched it. “That is not reasonable for a Saturday evening on SBS 6. That is bad.”
Flirty Dancing
Song at First Sight revolves around people who have to fall in love with each other while singing. Wendy previously had a similar program, but with dancing singles: Flirty Dancing. “It really reminded me of that,” Angela says.
It’s just a nonsensical formula, she says. “When someone is singing The Time of My Life with you, you immediately know: this is going to be the mother of my children?”
Cheap format
John de Mol really puts down a cheap format, Angela thinks. “From: Scoring dating shows, guys, what else can we do? You can hear them thinking at the weekly pizza meeting. ‘Oh, a song! Yes, let’s make people sing together!’ What do you get from participants?”
Angela also questions the candidates. “Do you want a friend or do you want a career as a singer and become famous? That is of course the pitfall for a lot of such shows. You bring in people who have a double motive.”
moronic toddlers
Time for the juicee: what does Angela think of the presentation? “I have to say: I still quite liked Edsilia with those annoying relatives standing there.”
And Wendy? “Sorry, I just never believe it. This is now her third dating show in a row. Apparently she has to have a dating show and she really wants to be the Yvon Jaspers of SBS 6, but in none of the products I’ve seen she manages to really connect and she always treats everyone like they are moronic toddlers are of three.”
