Holland’s Next Top Model airs on Monday evening for you. The Endemol production team have been busy with it for the last 6 months. I jumped on board in June. After several preliminary telephone calls (Fred: “May, you have to join!” and Anouk: “You’re the missing link.”) and a screen-test, we finally planned on meeting up on a Friday morning in June.
Hey May!
The Endemol production building is so gigantic that it almost dwarfs the Arena stadium, the neighbouring building. At the exact moment that I started thinking how impersonal it was, I spotted executive producer Femke and final editor Riena at the revolving doors. Having a ciggie in the morning son. I was greeted with “Hey, May!”, three kisses and Femke popped inside to make me a fresh latte. Who said the TV-world was hard and superficial?
“COCO CHANEL? she’s dead isn’t she?”
The ‘Gooische Vrouwen’ room was booked for our first meeting. There were scones (that none of us ate because nothing makes you look fatter than the camera). Dirk Kikstra, Anouk Smulders and Fred van Leer got to see the photos of the girls, and heard why the wild card idea was so extremely good (because of Daelorian, the wild card girl from the previous season who got signed by Future Faces). And as I decided to quote Bo from the last season who answered the question: ‘Who is Coco Chanel?’ with: “She’s dead isn’t she?”, I spilled my entire delicious latte all over my skinny jeans from pure relived horror.
Thanks MACBOOK AIR
Fortunately everyone was so deep in animated conversation that no-one noticed, I think, and the meeting continued just long enough for the wet place to dry up. I left the building, clutching my Macbook Air against the stain on my upper leg. God I can’t wait.
