WHAT happened to Jan Smit?

Eurovision seen? I'm going to wave some incense towards Chantal Janzen later because wow, that girl can present. That English. The smoothness, amazing. You would find her pronunciation even better when Jan Smit started talking, because his Volendam accent was not coached out. Luckily, I would almost say, because his accent was about the only thing I still recognized about Jan Smit.

Wow. I suspect he extended his burnout for a few weeks to give himself some cosmetic corrective touches here and there. I'm thinking about teeth, a little accent on the cheekbones, and I don't know what else, but what a dandy he looked like on Saturday. Not that I found it ugly, really not, but where was Jan in this story? The quiff, the glasses, the stubble, the toned body. Suddenly I had an insight: it was a little Mari van de Ven! And let that now be the man responsible for Jan's look. Again: it certainly wasn't ugly and kudos for Jan's hard work, but to say: a feast of recognition? Mwah.

Dear Jan, can you promise me one thing? Please promise never to take your accent and dialect through the car wash? Because you can take Jan out of Volendam in terms of looks, but you can never take Volendam out of Jan.

Image: EBU / Kris Pouw and NPO/AVROTROS/NOS