Bridget Maasland thinks that Linda de Mol’s private life is nobody’s business. But would she have embraced someone like Jeroen Rietbergen herself? “I can’t imagine that.”
Linda de Mol has been publishing her relational happiness for years in her pseudo-feminist magazine LINDA. They even appeared on the cover together once. But now that Jeroen Rietbergen has been exposed as Voice-pervert and people blamed Linda for sleeping together again, suddenly no one would have anything to do with her private life.
Bridget angry
That hypocritical opinion is shared by Bridget Maasland. As a Boulevard presenter, she earns her money by chewing out Dutch celebrities, but now calls in The BLVD Podcast that Linda’s private life is nobody’s business. And she announces that during a fifteen-minute item about Linda and Jeroen’s love reunion.
Bridget annoyed: “Why do we want to know? That’s none of our business, is it?”
Colleague Luuk Ikink: “Yes, but yes, we still want to know, yes.”
Bridget: “No, I really think so. It is none of our business.”
Hypocritical
Rob Goossens contradicts Bridget. “Linda has always made her as a person also the public persona.”
Bridget: “That was part of her job.”
Ah, good relationship news is part of the job, bad relationship news is private. Interesting, says Rob: “Yes, exactly. But then at a certain point, if it suits you a little less, suddenly say: yes, but now it is no longer your business.”
Bridget: “Well, a little less convenient… Of course, this goes a bit further than that.”
Addicted
Moreover, this is about an addict, says Bridget, who apparently sees Jeroen as half junk sees. “If she worked with someone who had or has a disease, an addiction is also a disease, and she has had a relationship with it for 15 years, then you really have something to sort out. I don’t find that strange at all.”
Luuk: “But her life is of course also just her personality on television and in her magazine. And she also included Jeroen Rietbergen in it. So I think it’s very human to want to know, from us anyway: how will that end?”
Bridget: “But I don’t think we should be judging it all the time.”
Luuk: “Only I think, I fear for her, that there might be consequences for her in her life, in her work, how people look at her. And that might be very unfair.”
Chalk stick
Rob then asks Bridget if she would also have forgiven Dirty Jeroentje: “But, Bridget, if your partner had this on his record, would you have been able to hit him in the arms again?”
No, Bridget replies with many words: “I can’t make any statement about that at all, because I’ve never dealt with it. I can’t imagine at first… I can’t imagine doing that.”
Just like the rest of the Netherlands. And so the circle is complete again.
