Handsome, quirky, singing, dancing, acting, mothering, and almost marrying. It's just that she's so nice, otherwise Chantal Janzen would be annoyingly perfect. Of course, she received yesterday the Televizier Award because everyone loves Chantal, that's been proven once again.

Is the champagne drip already disconnected or have you partied straight through?

“I am a bit hungover, I must say, and I look like it too. Glasses on and all. This morning I returned my jewelry to Cartier and that was, I believe, a disappointment. They expected more from me, haha.

I didn't really stay long at Carré. It's not really a ‘we know each other’ party because part of the tickets is also sold to ”normal people', so there were fans around who wanted to take pictures with me. Then you can't really let yourself go completely. At home, I chatted a bit with my husband and ate a lot. It hadn't happened all evening, so I warmed up some spaghetti.”

And have you been buried under flowers?

“Bouquets are being delivered back and forth. Luckily, my mother is there to cut everything and make nice bouquets because one is prettier than the other, I must say, haha.“

 Was it difficult to sit there alone without the other nominees?

“A lot of people asked if I wouldn't go because Linda and Floortje couldn't be there. They thought it would be extra sad if I lost. I didn't feel that at all. Quite the opposite. I'm not sick and I don't have any scary types threatening me, so I actually want to celebrate such an evening. And losing to these women is not bad at all. I felt honored to be nominated alongside them.”

And maybe the chance of winning was extra big because you were there, or doesn't it work that way?

“I have presented the gala a few times, so I know that the voting for this award closes as soon as the nominees are announced. That was on September 29 this year, and at that time, nothing was known about Floortje's illness and Linda's threats. So the votes were objective.”

You only had 30 seconds for your thank you speech. If there are still people you forgot, you can put them here in the sun.

“Yeah, wow, I had written everything down and still forgot to thank Leco. He is really my buddy and he always makes me look better. And my brother and stylists and friends. But I am glad I could mention the ‘technical’ crew because those people make the work so enjoyable for me. In the theater, you are one with your audience, but on TV and film, that audience is not present when you are working, and you do it with the crew. They make it fun for me.”

What does this weekend look like?

“Tomorrow I have to work. Well, working, working, I have a broadcast of Holland's Got Talent, but that doesn't feel like work at all. They want us to go to the broadcast as unprepared as possible so that our reactions are spontaneous, and that broadcast is a party. On Sunday, I fly with my beloved to London to finalize the last details for our wedding on December 15.”

Ah, a winter wedding.

“I am really a weather freak and was already called Chantal Timofeef because I was so obsessively concerned that the sun had to shine on our wedding day that a friend said: ”Why don't you just get married in December? Then you are immediately rid of that it-must-be-nice-weather obsession.” And then I thought; getting married in December, that must be in London. We'll make it a Love Actually-like spectacle. At least, that's the intention.”

Do you already have a dress?

“I don't really ‘have’ it yet. Addy van den Krommenacker is making it, and I find that a tricky luxury. First of all, I can't share it with Marco while we usually shop together, and because it's being made, I keep changing it. If you buy something, it hangs in your closet, and that's it. Now we just keep polishing and folding but it will, of course, be very beautiful.”

 Speaking of dresses, did you wear Addy yesterday as well?

“Not at all. I was in the city for recordings and walked past Robin, a store with a website called galajurken.nl. Everything hangs there in plastic, one dress is hideously ugly, and with the other, you think ‘well, that's actually very beautiful.’ I bought my first Real Dress there twenty years ago, as a girl from Tegelen who came to Amsterdam, and now again. For a bargain, how do you like that? But it looked exactly like a dress that Kate Hudson once wore at a Tiffany's event. When I saw this one, I thought; this is it. I did wear very expensive Cartier jewelry and Valentino shoes with it, though. As compensation.”

Do you already have a premiere outfit for the 27^st when Pak van mijn Hart is shown to the world?

“No, not yet. I'm always very late with that, but I fantasize about that tuxedo from Saint Laurent. That seems nice to me.”

And once the premieres and wedding are behind you, will there be a long, lazy honeymoon?

“We are going, with our son James, to the Maldives but we will make a two-day pit stop in the Netherlands. James insists on participating in the Christmas play and the Christmas dinner at kindergarten, so we are planning the trip around that. And then it's ten days of ‘us.’