Patty Brard throws everything on the street in a new book, corona in the British royal family and Dutch celebrities are locked up at home. An overview of last week’s entertainment world.
In television country, the rules are slightly different than in any professional field. After 40, you are actually too old, one misstep can mean the end of your career and even the most loyal employees have to renew their contracts every so many years.
The television world is hard and full of uncertainties and this week once again showed how hard and hard it is sometimes. Patty Brard is currently in Ibiza and will not get away and that is perhaps better for the time being: the presenter recorded her life story for a biography and turned out to be no secret.
In the book written by Michel van Egmond and Antoinnette Scheulderman, Patty talks about what was going on in the times of LUV and how Marga always wanted to be the boss and actually couldn’t sing very well. Marga angry, José angry and the scandal is complete.
However, the world was not really surprised until a clause from the Patty contract with Talpa was mentioned. It turns out: John de Mol was not allowed to gain a gram from Patty.
“I would then have two months to get back to my old weight or the contract would be terminated,” said Patty. She was furious, of course, and she refused to sign the contract. Where she used to go to John she decided to play it more professionally: the whole party just wouldn’t go through if the clause was left in it.
In the end it was Erland Galjaard who intervened and made sure that Patty signed. But what about if Patty unexpectedly eats a kilo? Is work then immediately over? No, the contract was changed: “We have made it ‘appearance’. So that I have to keep the same appearance for the duration of the contract.”
“Can William smell the throne now?”
“Can William smell the throne now?”, Telegraph headlined this striking phrase last Wednesday morning. The newspaper speculated what consequences the coronavirus could have for the British royal family: Queen Elizabeth is 93 and therefore certainly falls into the risk group, and her son Charles is no longer the youngest at the age of 71.
The newspaper wrote that insiders already reported that different scenarios were discussed should the queen or her heir to the throne become ill and die. And so it came to be that Prince William, aged 37, was “allowed to smell the throne”.
Now that implies a bit that William is already secretly waiting and that is remarkable: the prince is busy with his own responsibilities and has not hinted that he would like to lead his father.
When Wednesday became known that Charles has corona, some eyebrows were raised: was this the best way to initiate this news?
Fortunately, Charles is doing well and is working at home and the chance that he has lit his mother seems pretty small: the two have not seen each other for a long time and are now also far apart. Still, the news has led to panic: Charles has shaken a lot of hands and worked with people and so a lot of people need to be warned.
Elizabeth, meanwhile, continues as if nothing is wrong. The queen walks through hospitals, admires how people perform their work and even shakes a few hands. You may wonder if the latter is so sensible, but at least Elizabeth is there. So no place for William for now. He won’t mind that much.
In the shop-window
In this crisis all kinds of wonderful projects arise. People help each other with groceries, bring flowers to nursing homes, and people who used to work in healthcare now return to help. Everyone tries to roll up their sleeves in their own way and mean something to others.
Well-known Dutch people do this in their own way: one starts an initiative for shopping bags for people in health care, the other gives a concert from home and yet another takes pictures of other famous Dutch people who are sitting at home. What? Yes: photographer William Rutten paid a visit to Dutch celebrities and photographed them behind the window.
The family of Renate and Winston Gerschtanowitz, Kees Tol, Simon Keizer with his wife and daughter and Viktor Brand were all put on display and photographed by one of the most popular photographers in the Netherlands. William’s followers loved it all, but a lot of sour reactions followed on social media.
William was especially shocked when he wanted to hand over his Instagram feed to his followers and all kinds of trouble came after it.
“There are always people here trying to take you down because they probably have a life of their own. Apparently we don’t learn much from what’s going on now. I first thought about quitting your photos altogether and stories here, but let’s just talk to those few negatives about it all, maybe they’ll learn from it. “
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