Astrid Coppens and Natalia have been in the eye of the storm for several days. Their program ‘Back to Reality’ was criticized in the Flemish press and they were accused of laughing at people in poverty. Actress Tine Embrechts and lawyer Walter Damen stand up for the duo. “I think Natalia really wanted to make this with the best intentions, but she and Astrid are two fools.”
After the scathing reviews, there were also reports on Wednesday about Natalia’s “diva behavior” on the set and local residents also had their reservations about the veracity of the program. According to Walter Damen, there is now a lot of ‘Natalia-bashing’ going on, “and I think that’s a shame,” he says in De Tafel van Gert.
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Natalia is very good friends with Davina Simons, Damen’s partner in his law firm. “I know that Natalia is a perfectionist and that she has worked very hard to get where she is now.” He thinks it is unfair that she is now being targeted in this way. “In fact, she is now also in a vulnerable position, you could call it a kind of poverty. Because she cannot defend herself today, while she is being bashed on all sides. Even though she started a program with good courage to bring out a social problem. She really didn’t deserve this.”
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Opinion maker Noël Slangen and actress Tine Embrechts support him and believe that the real blame lies mainly with the program makers. “I think Natalia really wanted to make this with the best intentions, but she and Astrid are two fools. As a program maker you also have a task to protect those people.”
2024-02-21 21:37:27
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