It was an incredibly painful broadcast from Bar Laat: the one in which Sophie Hilbrand repeatedly bumbled and at some point even stopped even full. “It was the day of her resignation.”
Sophie Hilbrand will remember the bar late broadcast in which she fell completely silent twice last month: it caused extremely uncomfortable television. The first time she faltered no less than eight (!) Seconds, the second time she was helped out of the fire by Table guest Sylvana Simons, who also has the necessary TV experience.
Sophie’s resignation
There was a lot of speculation about it at the time: would there be tensions behind the scenes because of low viewing figures? In retrospect, that speculation seems to be correct, because Sophie is still quite abruptly dismissed as a presenter of Bar Late and last week she already had her very last broadcast.
With today’s knowledge, according to TV authority Tina Nijkamp, it is clear what was going on. “I think she was just told that she had to stop. I think she had known this for a few weeks,” she says in the podcast The Media Week.
Discussion interview
Sophie will have had a very annoying conversation that day, says Tina. “Afterwards you can see: those moments when she fell silent-that happened a few weeks ago-that was of course on the day she had that conversation with the BNNVARA management.”
“She has been told:” Sophie, we really like you, nice. But we have to make a blow, because otherwise this program will no longer exist next year. You have to get out. “
Inconvenience
It was already pulling a dead horse anyway, says Tina. “You saw too, and nobody talked about that, the inconvenience. She always had her hands … It was actually pretty sad … She had it very much, you know, so pinched. From those pinched hands. So from: Ooh, I will get through this broadcast well? That feeling.”
We don’t have to feel sorry for her, she concludes. “Sophie Hilbrand, that salary is also just transferred, hear, next month. Yes, that will just go on.”