Paul de Leeuw is reprimanded in a very strict manner by Angela de Jong. The opinion diva finds it unprecedented that the presenter misbehaved in a children’s hospital. “Bizarre.”
The news that Paul de Leeuw had an altercation with a director during admission to a children’s hospital is causing quite a bit of discussion. After a shouting match, she decided she no longer wanted to be around the TV star and finished things in the editing room. But should such a conflict come out?
Children’s Hospital
Critics wonder, but Angela de Jong is clear: she believes this deserves publication. And not just because the AD article about it was written by her close colleague Dennis Jansen. “I was wondering if, in all your caution, you hadn’t written it down a little too carefully,” she says to him in the AD Media podcast.
She continues: “It is precisely because of this that the discussion now arises: is this news or not? While I thought: something has happened in a place where you least expect it, namely a children’s hospital.”
Hassle in hospital
That is precisely where you should behave, Angela emphasizes. “It is a program about terminally ill children, where I think you all do your best to make it as pleasant as possible for those children and for those parents. Then the last thing you want as a crew is to cause trouble in such a hospital, right?”
Even under those conditions, Paul apparently finds it difficult to control himself. “You are apparently so difficult to work with that someone says: ‘You know, this far and no further, I won’t do it anymore.’ But yes, as I read it now, I also thought… I had the feeling that it was perhaps written a little too casually or too cautiously.”
Difficult man
The news was no surprise to Angela. “Anyone who is involved in the television world knows that Paul de Leeuw is difficult to work with and that he could often get very angry. That is also in the documentary about him and he has said enough about it himself. In that sense it doesn’t matter to me.”
She continues: “But of course a lot of people were now saying: is this news? Do you have to report it? Are you not allowed to do anything anymore? And then I thought, if I just read it carefully, then I think: something really happened. And at the same time, I think that you sometimes find it annoying to deliver this kind of news, Dennis.”
Well thought about
As a journalist, Dennis maintains warm contacts with all kinds of TV stars, but Paul must have blocked him by now. “I’ve thought about it carefully,” he responds.
Angela: “Yes, so you might think that maybe… That you should have written it a little louder. That would have led to less discussion afterwards.”