Bakker apologizes in the weekly and admits the mistakes made. “I can only say that things have not gone well within my company. We are now fixing that. I have to expose my buttocks.”
Blogger Silvia Ribas is one of the victims and Bakker indicates that he has talked to the chef, who also shares recipes via Instagram. “My lawyer and hers are currently in talks to find out exactly what went wrong, but also how we can solve it together. I can only say that she is right,” Bakker said.
Team
According to the slimming book writer, something went wrong somewhere in her team of thirty people during the corona period.” During the corona period, it all went too easy. I wasn’t on top of it – which I normally do. Before corona we sat together in the office and we always went through everything carefully. Now everything went through zoom.”
Bakker states that it is her responsibility but that her employees bear the blame. “They made a mess of it. There has been a clear conversation about how the hell all this could have happened. It’s been very easy going. That is the truth.”
Books
According to two former employees the popular weight loss books are also not entirely by Sonja’s hand. The diet guru emphasizes that the plagiarism practices do not relate to her cookbooks. “What plays with Instagram now is separate from my books. I make these entirely in-house,” says Bakker.
“Instagram is very different, you have to post there a few times a day. That’s a day job, which I’ve outsourced. And again: I haven’t checked enough. Not that it seems like I’m blaming my employees now,” she adds.
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