Tempa talk

This week has really flown by for my feeling, so before I knew it, it was already Thursday, or Tempaaaa Time. Also known as the Brainless Hour of the week. And we are already at episode 4, which actually sounds quite far. But when you consider that Ivo is almost ready to propose to another woman, it doesn't seem that bad. And hello: the first campfire. SO EXCITED.

1. ‘Hi, I'm Ralph and I came to Temptation, of course to find love.’ Of course. Love. Not Insta-followers.

2. Iris: ‘I wasn't very surprised.’ Okay, so you were... surprised?

3. HAHA. During the workout of Jan Sietse and Whitney: I really thought for a moment that his microphone was a weird tuft of chest hair. Completely thrown off by it.

4. Honestly, I don't understand why participants keep saying things like: ‘I just don't know if we can make it together’ and then get very anxious about it. Why do you sign up then? The percentage that comes out of Temptation as a couple is, I believe, less than twenty percent, so... Do the math, that chance.

5. Kaj to Ivo about the new seducers: ‘There's not a girl here who can replace Esmé.’ Just to be clear: Esmé is not his current partner, okay, Esmé is a seducer he is head over heels for within 24 hours.

6. My goodness, I am shocked every time I see that Maris and Ivo have been together for NINE years. That poor girl doesn't know what awaits her at the campfire.

7. René: ‘Beautiful location and nice conversations with Ceyenne.’ Aaah, sounds like a top date. The subject we see next: the spaghetti strings that almost pop off at Ceyenne. Nice job with that edit. Loooove it.

8. Seriously, Jan Sietse and his date literally only got a ten-year-old couch with some cushions as a setting. Ivo and Esmé get a full dinner on the beach with champagne. I guess the creators also realize who they should bet their money on.

9. Although I have the feeling that Ivo and Esmé keep talking about the fact that they are exactly, literally, unmatched the same and finish each other's sentences, but we see zero evidence that this is the case.

10. So cool that the creators managed to transform one of the most famous country songs (‘Hit the Road Jack!’) into a kind of soundtrack of doom. It almost scares me.

11. I completely missed this during the previous episode, but the moment Esmé and Ivo say to each other: Look at that view. F**king sick.’ and you really see nothing. Just some palm trees and a pitch-black sky. HAHA.

12. For the first time ever at Temptation, the seducers call it a night during a party and just go to sleep. Sleep is important, of course, but as a seducer, I still give you a failing grade for this evening.

13. Am I the only one here or does everyone prefer to skip the bits with Ivo and Esmé? It makes me so incredibly uncomfortable.

14. That conversation between those two as well, that you have to alternate lust-sex and love-sex ‘because otherwise it's so f**king boring’. I absolutely hate — and feel uncomfortable about — conversations about sex that are purely held to be cool or to impress. Especially when they are on TV.

15. Wipe. Me. OUT. ‘With Annebel, I eventually ran out of things to say and then I just put a penis in her mouth and then it's just over, you know, but they just want to talktalktalk…’ What.

16. I seriously thought this was going to be a good plea from René: to take a critical look at the whole Ivo and Esmé situation. But it suddenly went from 1 to 100 and then he completely lost it and now I don't know what to think anymore.

17. Whitney: ‘They called me Big Dick Whitney.’ Uh, who exactly? Because I have a strong feeling that you just came up with this nickname right after eighteen vodkas. But that's okay.

18. #durftevragen: did I really not pay attention like a dodo or did I completely miss that Ivo and Esmé went to sleep together? We saw that in the previews last week, right?

19. Ooh, what will the new twist be? Bet that one half of a couple can choose to go home, with or without their other half? Juicyyyy.

20. That Ivo, the I-know-Esmé-for-two-days-and-who-is-my-girlfriend-again-Ivo, has an opinion that his girlfriend is overreacting for a first campfire. Nah, I have some thoughts on that.