The pressure on Peter van der Vorst is increasing. In contrast to John de Mol, the RTL bobo is seen as someone with a moral compass, but what is Temptation Island still doing on TV?
It is of course incredibly disgusting television: Temptation Island, in which the TV makers encourage candidates to cheat on their partner. There is now a lot of fuss about it, because after the victims of The Voice, lawyer Sébas Diekstra is now also assisting the victims of this seduction program. One former candidate after another comes forward.
Mental complaints
The participants of Temptation Island report with terrible mental complaints. The AD revealed last week that RTL even paid 30 thousand euros to former participants Efrain and Aylin. “Often there was only alcohol. When I had orange juice in the morning, I could taste that it also contained liquor,” she says in an interview astonishing article.
After a fuss about another seduction program, Peter van der Vorst chose at the beginning of 2020 to continue with Temptation Island: “The genre is still loved by a large audience and, as far as we are concerned, therefore has a future.”
But can this still be maintained after the latest facts – the AD even reports on suicide attempts?
Mentally broken
Angela de Jong, the influential TV butcher of the AD, believes that Peter should take responsibility. “People have been psychologically destroyed by a television program,” she fumes in the AD Media podcast.
Colleague Dennis Jansen: “Yes, in England, I think two people have already attempted suicide in the past through Love Island and a presenter also took her own life. In this day and age, I don’t think that is possible anymore. This entire program should simply be abolished.”
Pleuris program
Angela corrects her colleague. “It was never possible, Temptation Island.”
Manuel Venderbos, who does not need a seduction program to deceive his lover, then: “No, that’s what I thought too. What a fun program that is.”
Dennis: “But certainly not in these times… A program where you risk your relationship. Why would you do that?”
Angela: “Why would you, as a broadcaster, want to make a television program where you deliberately destroy relationships?”
Orange juice
Manuel finds the anecdote about the orange juice especially shocking. “That you can taste that there is also liquor in it!”
It really goes too far, says Angela. “Peter van der Vorst has ever taken more decisive action against a program than against this one. They just have to cut it down again. It’s just really disgusting. Disgusting.”
Manuel: “I just think that all those viewers who have ever watched it should just pay some kind of fine. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 euros. And that this goes as a kind of compensation to all those participants.”
Angela: “Yes, or therapy.”
Politically correct
If RTL is so politically correct, then intervention is appropriate here, Angela concludes. “They are all concerned with their image and they all want to appear very politically correct. RTL was the first to introduce colored Petes and no longer wanted black Petes. I’ll just mention it as an example.”
She concludes: “Then you would consider this as a program from a decent company where decent people work, where you are inclusive and where you… Well, name all the modern puppet terms… Then you should not want to make this. Point.”
Advice from GeenStijl
And until then? Opinion site GeenStijl advises: “This is a message to all the stupid morons who may be hot, but are too stupid to wipe their own asses: DO NOT JOIN TEMPTATION ISLAND. Do not do it.”
“It will not bring you any fame, you are a puppet of RTL, part of the Netherlands laughs at you, another part of the Netherlands is attracted to you, when you are at home you jump for the Intercity from 11.55 am to Schagen and RTL pisses on your dead body.”