Marieke Elsinga goes into the weekend with terrible nerves. Will her TV career survive these rainy days? Her new Saturday show is about to start and a lot depends on it.
It is the big question that concerns the top of RTL 4: will Marieke Elsinga still deliver? The presenter has a terrible television flop to her name, Everything is Music, and she is out for revenge. She has to ensure that no one will think about that TV monstrosity in which Irene Moors was banging on a shuffleboard.
Tinder dates
The show that will help Marieke get better is called The Jump and starts tomorrow evening: in each round, five candidates have to walk over a forty-meter-long bridge full of trapdoors. Question wrong? Then you slide down. Sounds like a bit of Asian-style entertainment; According to the makers, it will be extremely spectacular.
However, the pressure is enormous, Marieke admits in the Television. “I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t the case. I see it a bit like dating. I’ve been single for thirteen years, so I’ve had a lot of Tinder dates. Sometimes it was a hit, other times a total mismatch. All the more fun, by the way, to now be dating and have a child.”
Magnifying glass
Eh, what does Marieke’s wild bachelor life have to do with RTL 4? “Well, I feel like it’s the same with work. Try a lot of things and then see. There is more of a magnifying glass on it now, but that’s just how it goes.”
What will viewers like most about The Jump? “Playing along at home: you see positions and you can discuss them with each other at home on the couch. But also feel the tension: can the candidate pass or will he fall from a great height? You can play along at home on the couch without the risk of falling. And then you still have fun.”
The Jump can be seen tomorrow evening at 9:30 PM on RTL 4.