Paul de Leeuw has received a terrible amount of criticism for his dramatic interview with Rachel Hazes. Why was he being so sweet? What interests are at play here?
It hasn’t happened for a while that Angela de Jong was as furious as last weekend. It is not without reason that she is called the AD tiger shark, but this time she was really dangerous. The prints of her tusks are still on Paul de Leeuw’s neck four days later, she thought his program Hotel Hollandia was that bad.
Bad interview
Not only was the cabaret cringeworthy, but the interview guests were also extremely poorly chosen: Rachel Hazes and Rob Kemps. So you start with a new program, you have to gain the sympathy of the audience and then you choose two of the celebrities who are really the most vomited in the Netherlands. One because of cheating, the other because of her character.
Paul’s interview skills were also nothing like that. No tricky issues were discussed at all and Rachel very easily got away with a nasty, nasty joke about her very own daughter Roxeanne Hazes. Why was he so sweet to someone like Rachel? Paul presented Op1 on a blue Monday.
Double interests
Rob Goossens, the TV expert from RTL Boulevard, unravels the mystery. According to him, there is – how could it be otherwise – a conflict of interest. Paul and Rachel are active for the same club, he writes on X.
He reports: “Rachel has a contract with Hotel Hollandia producer MediaLane for Holland Zingt Hazes. So this was indeed not the most difficult booking in Dutch TV history.”
Cronyism
This is indeed cronyism, responds a certain Ramsterdam. “Don’t forget that Raggel and Paul are friends. He did the first (?) interview with her after the (yetth?) anniversary of the death of her source of income, a double interview in LINDA. Do you really think Raggel would have sat there differently?”
In any case, it doesn’t do Paul any good. For example, one Anne writes: “I am normally in favor of giving a program a chance, but if you give Rachel Hazes a platform in this way, then you are finished for me.”
Much annoyance
In any case, there is a lot of annoyance about conflicts of interest and cronyism in the media world. Today, AD was the first to announce the news that Coen Swijnenberg and Sander Lantinga are transferring to the new Qmusic sister JOE. That news article was pretty much a one-to-one copy of the press release.
Alexander Klöpping believes that such an interest should be mentioned. Irritated: “You would of course you can mention in the message that Joe is owned by the same publisher as the AD. You can also just leave it alone.”
Show news
A program that is notorious for double hats is Shownieuws and Angela is angry about that today. She tuned in to that program yesterday, she writes in it A.D: “Would Anouk Smulders have been brought in again to say something ugly about the victim as a best friend of Leontine Borsato?”
No, this time Evert Santegoeds talked very condoningly about Marco Borsato, Angela thinks. “It was all very bad for Marco and his family. That poor mother of his. Who now had to watch her son shuffle around Alkmaar in the evening, completely unhappy. Coincidentally, she had given an interview about it this week to Evert’s magazine.”