“Britt and Angela’s conversation on hate and credibility in the television world”

Although the conversation starts innocently and Renze asks as a joke whether Britt is just as nervous for the match as for a conversation with Angela de Jong, the presenter takes the subject seriously. “I really had a stomach ache for two days because of the nerves before those tests and then I thought: yes, now I don’t have the NK anymore, everything is over and then I saw Angela. Then I thought: I’ve never met her and he hates me so much, then I got all that stomach ache back.”

Angela responds to Britt’s statements by emphasizing not to hate anyone. “I sometimes write a critical column about someone,” says Angela. “That is also allowed, but don’t you feel intense hatred for me and all those people, for example?” Britt responds to that again Angela does not feel that hatred and she advises the presenter to read her columns – to which Britt does have a subscription.

“This is the television world at its best again, isn’t it? If you write one critical column, it’s always right that you hate them or something,” Angela continues. “You write a column about a program or about a person who is on television. It can come across as more credible one time than the other. I will mention that. But hate? I don’t think I have ever used that word in my columns.”

A little later, Britt also accuses Angela of thinking she’s “fake,” after which the columnist advises her to just be herself and “less act like the girl who can’t do anything and just happens to be lost in the world of television.” According to Angela, she is a successful woman and does not have to act stupid. “I believe that more than the girl’s act of: I happen to be lost and I can’t do anything.”

Valerio Zeno, Renze’s sidekick, meanwhile, “wisely keeps his mouth shut behind the bar” after being tackled harshly by Angela in one of her columns. “I’ll grab a drink,” he jokes.