John de Mol took the broom through Hart van Nederland when he got the power over SBS 6. Selma van Dijk flew out as one of the last. What happened to her in the end?
A shock golf went through SBS 6 in 2012: the new owner John de Mol decided to get the broom through Hart van Nederland and dismissed Cilly Dartell, Maureen du Toit and Milika Peterzon. It didn’t stop there: Gallyon van Vessem, Selma van Dijk and Piet Paulusma followed in 2019. John wanted to rejuvenate and less a housewife appearance.
Where is Selma?
Selma has now been 56 years old. What is she doing in the meantime? And does she still have TV ambitions? “No, that is closed. I enjoy presenting the Sunday afternoon concert at NPO Klassiek,” she says in Weekblad Party.
She continues: “I am sitting at the most beautiful concerts of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw or in the goals in Rotterdam at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In the radio program I tell everything about the soloist, the conductor, the program, the piece and the composer. I all do the editorial work behind it.”
Forgery
Selma thinks it is ‘completely fine’ and is no longer asked for screen tests. “No, but I always knew that: when it’s done with television, then it is also ready. Before you know it, you’re in the forgotten corner. But that doesn’t matter at all, because I am having a good time now.”
She continues: “I have always known that it will stop. Maybe the forgotten corner is not the right word either, because I am still regularly recognized and addressed and, moreover, everyone in the television world still remembers me. It does not feel like I have forgotten at all.”
Sad
Does Selma miss her work at SBS? “No, and I am not sad either. It just stops once. Fortunately, other fun things have come my way. Like the classical music that I now present on the radio. That comes together everything I have ever done.”
“I studied at the conservatory, then played a classic violin, then I rolled into the television world and now I roll back into the classical music world, which I combine with presenting. Actually, it can’t be better.”