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Master Frank Visser was in Loosduinen last summer and last week the broadcastof ‘Mr Frank Visser does Uitspraak’ was shown on TV. It was a neighbordispute. Kat Giovanni van Deborah misbehaved in the garden of the neighbours,Rob and Gerda. Master Frank Visser’s statement: The cat must go. But is thisruling legally valid? We find out:

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Rob and Gerda from The Hague are angry with their neighbors across the street.Or rather the cat. Killer cat Giovanni (as Garda calls it) regularly hunts intheir garden and has even taken their beloved chicken. Rob clearly states inthe episode what will happen to Gio if he gets hold of the cat: “OnlyVerweggistan.”

Pronunciation

Since Rob stopped by Deborah to complain about her cat, she has kept the blacktom inside. A cat expert judges that Gio is too stressed because he is used togoing outside. Master Frank Visser understands that the cat should be able togo outside, but thinks that Loosduinen is not the place for that. Hisstatement: Deborah must find a new home for Giovanni within three months. Ifshe does not, she has to pay a fine to Gerda and Rob of 25 euros per day.

Legally valid

Is this ruling legally valid and will Deborah really be fined if she doesn’tget rid of her beloved cat? We find many sources, including law firms, thatexplain to us the validity of the statements of Master Frank Visser. Good toknow: Mr. Frank Visser is actually a judge. He graduated as a master in law,worked for the police and the Public Prosecution Service and was a subdistrictcourt judge in Zaandam.

In the program ‘Mr Frank Visser makes a statement’ Frank Visser does not actas a judge, but as an expert who gives advice. The verdict is therefore not ajudgment of a judge, but a binding advice. That is an agreement between twoparties having a disagreement. They both agreed to let someone else settle theargument. In this case Frank Visser. His binding advice is a valid agreementand therefore legally valid.

Of course Frank Visser cannot just say anything. First, all parties must beheard and the decision must be reasonable. Before participating in theprogram, the participants sign that they both adhere to the pronunciation.They cannot appeal, but the binding advice can be annulled by an ordinarycourt. A judge will not do that quickly, because both neighbors have agreedthat Frank Visser will come up with a solution.

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But suppose Deborah really doesn’t get rid of her cat. So you don’t follow theadvice? Then no police will be called in. But if someone does not keep to theagreement, the arguing neighbors have to talk to each other again. If one ofthe two does not want to do this, then there is default and the other partycan go to court.

Last year, a father and daughter did not obey Mr. Frank Visser. They then hadto pay a fine of 27,650 euros to the neighbors with whom they had an argument,a ‘real’ judge had determined.

Ongehoord Nederland accuses fellow broadcasters that no longer want tocooperate at a journalistic level and that they talk to the aspiringbroadcaster for excluding ‘the sound of millions of Dutch people’. That’s whatpresenter Raisa Blommestijn stated today in the broadcast of Unheard ofNews. She calls the decision of broadcasters WNL, MAX and KRO-NCRV to breakthe collaboration of ‘very dubious level’.

It is the first time that Ongehoord Nederland has responded to the decision ofthe broadcasters. ON and chairman Arnold Karskens could not be reached forcomment today. Blommestijn accuses the NPO of ‘standing for connection andinclusion, but now doing nothing but excluding and throwing mud’.

The initiative of the broadcasters to no longer want to collaborate withOngehoord Nederland comes from editor-in-chief Bert Huisjes of WNL. Accordingto the broadcasters that have joined his initiative, Ongehoord Nederland doesnot conduct journalism. According to Huisjes, ON produces ‘a pamphlet-likeprogram in which structures are used that we recognize from journalism. Butthe interviewers are Twitter agitators like Raisa Blommestijn, without anyjournalistic experience or background.’

The broadcasters also disapprove of the Unheard of News seldom would bereciprocated. The WNL boss emphasizes that the journalistic consultation ofthe NPO is not about the question of whether the broadcasting license ofOngehoord Nederland is under discussion, but does believe that ON should beremoved from the system.

Sanction

Ongehoord Nederland previously received a financial sanction from the NPOafter an investigation by the Ombudsman into complaints that the broadcasterwould spread incorrect and unreliable information, that the journalists wouldnot ask enough critical questions and that the guests would mainly come fromthe right. This would be in violation of the Journalistic Code of the NPO. TheOmbudsman considered these complaints to be largely well-founded.

The Ombudsman has launched a new investigation after a much-discussed itemthat showed videos of random black people beating up white people without anycontext. Presenter Blommestijn stated that the black perpetrators all had aracist motive. But Pointer’s research has shown that there is no evidence forthis at all. As a result of this item, the Ombudsman again received manyhundreds of complaints. The NPO has also asked the Media Authority to lookinto whether Ongehoord Nederland has violated the media law.

Also listen to the AD Media Podcast with this week ‘s nominations for theTelevizier ring, the clash between Angela de Jong and Johan Derksen, thestatement by Linda de Mol and the cancellation of Het Dorp. Listen below orsubscribe via Spotify or iTunes.

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Supermodel Hailey Bieber (25) may be one of the most famous and most talkedabout star couples in the world with her husband Justin, but no journalistdares to ask her about her sex life with the singer. But if you bring it up,she answers candidly, a new podcast shows.

Hailey finds it a bit uncomfortable. “Because I think: my parents are going tolisten to this,” she says in the podcast Call Her Daddy. “There’s something souncomfortable about your parents listening.”

It’s the first time Hailey has been asked about her sex life and she thinksshe knows why. “I have a theory that people don’t find married sexinteresting,” said Hailey, who has been married to Justin since 2018. ,,Idon’t think anyone cares about it.” Presenter Alex Cooper sees it differently.”You are the most beautiful people in the world, this is what people want toknow.”

The international showbiz media clearly think the same; they all write aboutHailey’s statements. Like she and Justin prefer to have sex in the evening,but she also likes it in the morning. That she doesn’t see herself having athreesome or open relationship anytime soon, because she thinks it will neverend well. “We’ve worked really hard to get to where we are today,” Haileysaid. “There’s such a beautiful trust and such a beautiful bond that Iwouldn’t feel good about that – and neither would he.”

Quote >>> We regularly just talk for sex, a very nice conversation, that is really> important to him>> Hailey Bieber

How did they build that trust? Especially because Justin is so open, accordingto Hailey. He’s told her all about his previous girlfriends and lets Haileyread along when a woman makes advances on Instagram. Hailey soon finds thatgoing too far. At the same time, she encourages him to make friends especiallywith women, as she does with men. She herself never gets flirty messages,claims the top model.

She also tells more intimate things. Like their favorite position (theyalternate but Hailey likes doggy style and less of the missionary pose) andwhat she finds exciting about Justin. ,,It can be something about our bondtogether, or something physical… Kissing is very important to me, always hasbeen”, she says. For Justin, their ‘connection’ is also essential. ,,We areregularly just talking [voor de seks], a very nice conversation, that isreally important to him.” When she is asked to choose between being satisfiedorally for the rest of her life or with Justin’s hands, she can’t choose.”Because it’s always a combination.”

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Hailey previously announced that she was not squeamish about her sexuality.Justin, now 28, and Hailey, 25, are often seen as “eternal teenagers,” Haileysaid at the time. She thought that was a misconception: they are marriedadults who embrace their sexuality. Sometimes latex is involved, as it turnedout.

One of the previous friends Justin will have told candidly is singer andactress Selena Gomez. Hailey was criticized when she dated the singer, as fansaccused her of stealing Justin from Selena. It was rumored that the singer hadcheated on her. That is ‘really not’ the case, Hailey says now. “It’s not inme to interfere with other people’s relationships. I never wanted to and never

When the Meilandjes got into a fight with their manager Valérie Lempereur, thewoman who definitely put the striking family on the map, they suddenlycharacterized her as unreliable. Valérie, who will be publishing anautobiography this week, announces her sweet revenge in Story…

‘ What Martien owes to me’

aAs a former manager of the Meiland family, Valérie Lempereur, who at the timewas working as a disclosure journalist in the international media world underthe pseudonym Maxime Verlaar, was mentioned in Martien’s biography. Martien –from mayor ‘s son to lord of the castle mentioned and on balance not in apositive sense. When they met, Valérie was still acclaimed. With her businessacumen, she ensured that the Meilandjes got an extremely lucrative TVcontract, which made them a millionaire. She also devised the extraexaggerated way in which Martien wears his flamboyant shawls, in order to gether own signature. Nevertheless, the Meilandjes immediately broke with Valérieat some point, after their producer made her illustrious past the subject ofconversation. In her journalistic career – in which she worked for, amongothers, the crime program of the late Peter R. de Vries, New Revu, Story andthe German media worked – she was feared for the bold way she got her news;she went undercover in various guises when necessary to get her cover storiescompleted. Not everyone in journalism was charmed by this and it earned herquite a few enemies. Her sometimes compelling personality instilled fear inmany. However, her firsts were always sensational. Although Valérie deMeilandjes brought the necessary fame and prosperity, they suddenly wantednothing more to do with her. In her autobiography, published in theNetherlands and Belgium last week Madam let Valérie, who was born as a boy,had a terrible childhood and worked her way up to a journalistic phenomenonafter only a few years of primary school, finally get to know herself a littlebetter.

Should Erica and Martien Meiland fear the second part of Valérie Lempereur’s autobiography?

‘ Thundered aside’

As Martien admits in his book, Chateau Meiland without Valérie’s input, itmay never have gotten off the ground. Valérie now tells Story about this:’They had been working on it for years, but it didn’t work out. Then I helpedthem on their way. Without me they would never have been able to approach Johnde Mol directly. I even did their contract negotiations at the time. I barelygot anything from it myself. At the time I did indeed advise Martien to wearhis characteristic shawls as a kind of recognition, as he also tells in hisbook. It would have been more chic if he had been a little more frugal withme, when you see what he and his family owe to me afterwards. They threw measide on the intercession of Vincent ter Voert, of Vincent TV Productions. Hefelt threatened because I understood him well. I know that TV world – theMeilandjes didn’t back then. Vincent TV wanted the Meilandjes to show up foran apple and an egg in the reality show. I got that. Some things happenedthen… I expected the Meilandjes to be honest enough to write that down intheir book. They didn’t. I’m going to tell my side of the story. I don’t thinkthe Meilandjes are always honest.’ That will happen in the second part of herautobiography, which will be published exactly one year from now.

Truth

In the revealing and at times disconcerting book Madam Valérie describes howshe was born in a Zeeland family of seven children and grew up as Daniel, butdiscovered at a young age that she was in the wrong body – he wanted to be agirl. When she finally had sex surgery to become Valérie, which she candidlydetails in the book, and after a life of abuse and lovelessness in children’shomes, went astray and became a drug addict, life lifted her up again aftershe found her job as writer and journalist. The late Theo van Gogh, with whomthe also rebellious Valérie maintained a close friendship, helped her find ajob at New Revue. That’s where the ball started rolling. She then grew intoa feared reporter in both the Netherlands and Flanders, who also became awelcome and welcome guest in society circles, even up to royalty. Her side ofthe story about the Meiland history will only be discussed next year. Valérietells Story: ‘I have a contract for three books with publisher Lebowski, partof Overamstel, which also publishes fellow writers such as Susan Smit, ThomasAcda, Claudia de Breij and Hugo Borst. My second book is called A matter oftime , and in it I will tell you something about the Meilandjes. They don’treally have to worry or they have to run away from the truth. But if that’swhat you’re afraid of…’

So tonight again no prize for best actor or actress, but best leading orsupporting role. And next week the Televiziergala will also have a gender-neutral prize for television presenters.

‘Moving along with the zeitgeist’, was what the organization of the GoldenCalves called it last year, after which a major discussion broke out in thefilm world. This is too soon, critics keep saying, there is still too muchinequality between men and women.

‘More chance for white straight man’

For example, Fedja van Huêt, last year’s winner of the most important GoldenCalf, best leading role in a feature film, made himself heard. Last month hesaid in Het Parool that he thinks the recognition for his acting is ‘great’,but that he would approach the award ceremony differently.

“I understand the idea of ​​no longer distinguishing between roles for womenand men, it was decided with good thought, but I would have preferred moreawards. […] Most roles still go to straight white men. If you are a womanthere are fewer, if you are black even less. That really needs to change.”

Last year, actor Katja Herbers wrote off her frustration on Twitter. Her tweetwas often quoted afterwards.

Very slight shift

Recent research into the position of women in the Dutch film and televisionsector confirms that inequality still exists. Utrecht University counted fromalmost 2500 fiction and documentary productions from 2011-2020 how many womenand men were involved in leadership positions and in leading and supportingroles.

The conclusion: the past ten years has seen a very slight shift towardsgreater equality. But overall, men are dominant (69.6 percent) when it comesto leadership roles and lead and supporting roles. 40% of the lead andsupporting roles are women. And: the more expensive and longer a production,the fewer women are involved and the more men.

Manouschka Zeegelaar Breeveld, actor and chairman of ACT Acteursbelangen,supports the decision to make the film awards gender neutral. Ultimately, thebenefits outweigh the drawbacks, she says.

For example, attention is now being paid to the underlying problem,inequality. She also points to an increasing group of people who do notidentify as male or female. At least they qualify now.

‘Positive discrimination still needed’

Rosemarie Buikema, professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at UtrechtUniversity, thinks it is too early. “The problem is that we are not yet thatfar in society and the film world. We have to catch up first. As long as thatdoesn’t happen, positive discrimination with separate categories is stillimportant.”

What then has to change? More serious roles for women, for example, saysBuikema. “Roles are often still very masculine or feminine. Female leadingroles are often about the more feminine themes. That has to be broken first.”

This has to be done in the workplace and by screenwriters. “You can adjust theprices, but if there is no policy at that level, it doesn’t make much sense.”

After the breakthrough single ‘I run’ from 2017, Salomé Dos Santos (27), akaBlu Samu, moved from Antwerp to Brussels, precisely because she resonated withthe open, limitless mindset of the capital. “I never wanted to put myself andmy music in a box,” she says on the terrace of the Monk, one of her favoritecafes when she worked across the street at pizzeria Nona and fully enjoyed thebustling city life.

At the beginning of her career, the singer was constantly told: but who is BluSamu and what genre does she perform? “I thought that was a useless question.People wanted me to believe that I had to choose between genres, but I neveragreed. Blu Samu is Salomé Dos Santos and what’s going on with her when shemakes her music. I create all my EPs from the awareness, the authenticity andthe tools I have at that moment in my life. So don’t expect me to tell you nowwhat Blu Samu will be in the future. Brussels matched so much better withthat attitude than Antwerp.”

MIX OF STYLES Her first EP was called moka , after the pet name her Portuguese grandmothergave her because her daddy is African and her mom is Portuguese. The recordmade it immediately clear in 2018 that music is her therapy. her second ep,ctrl-alt-del (2019), was created in Brussels when her career took off underthe wings of hip-hop crew Le 77. In the midst of the energy that city lifegave her, some ancient demons were tamed. on the new ep 7 she comes closerto herself again. A mix of styles with fado and Cape Verdean influences alsopushes the familiar hip-hop sound into the background. For this she likes toput a feather in the hat of her French producer Sam Tiba. “My Parisianmanagement put me in touch with him and there was an immediate click. We likedthe same things – anime, melancholic beats… – and he didn’t push me to makeanother hip-hop record.”

Tiba pulled her out of her lockdown bubble, which she had filled with> chilling, gaming and skating, “all things I did when I was 16 if I wanted to> escape reality.” Her producer not only helped to lift her writing block, he> also made sure that the mix of traditional and electronic styles never> sounds forced. “He also told me that no one overnight that it always takes> at least ten years of preparation, and often also an underlying struggle.> I’m attracted to that. I realize now even better than before that without> the dark moments and setbacks I would not have stood so firmly in my shoes.”

ASSERTIVITY TRAINING The difficulties she experienced in her youth and her first, reluctant stepsin the music world, turned out to have been a good learning experience andassertiveness training. “Record labels are obsolete. Sometimes I get thefeeling that they are still trying to sell their music the same way they didin Elvis Presley’s time. But every growth process is different. Take all thosedeadlines now. You can’t order an artist to have a single ready within twomonths. That detracts from the creation process. As a young artist you stillthink that people in the industry know better, because they have studied forit. But once you realize that that’s exactly why they try to put everyone inthe same mold, it comes down to finding your way back to yourself and takingthe things you can do better into your own hands again.” In her case, forexample, it was specifically about her striking video clips, of which sheagain took over the direction.

Also on a personal level, Dos Santos made a clean sweep by returning toAntwerp during the pandemic. “I was very well surrounded in Brussels, but Istill felt alone. It looked good from the outside. Inside I realized thatsomething wasn’t right.” And so she returned to the house where she oncewalked (see first single ‘I Run’). “That felt strange, but at the same time itwas liberating to go back to sleep in my childhood room in my single bed,among all my old stuff.”

DIALOGUE WITH YOURSELF When she lived in Antwerp for two months, she learned of the death of herfather, with whom she had little contact. “I cried the first day. I lockedmyself in my room and started writing down everything I wanted to say to him.I hadn’t seen him for a long time, although he wanted to, but I didn’t want tomake me feel guilty either. My daddy wouldn’t have been happy about that and Iwould have just eaten myself.” The result of the grieving process can be heardin the homage ‘Pai’, which she sings in softer Portuguese. “With music we telleach other things that we don’t say out loud, but that we are thinking orfeeling. If you enter into an honest dialogue with yourself in your music, itautomatically becomes therapy.”

She recently experienced this after a short stay in the French countryside,which was intended to work on new songs in isolation in nature. But beingalone brought out so much in her that it didn’t come out until she got backhome. It turned things around.

“As a starting artist I wrote slam poetry. It wasn’t until I started> working more with Le 77 that I started writing in sixteen bars and choruses,> as is usual in hip-hop. Then everyone started calling me a rapper or hip-hop> artist. Without really being aware of it, I put myself in that straitjacket> for a while. After my trip to France I started to compose differently. I> wrote down a first sentence – “Why do I feel so sad about meeting people?” –> which I thought about for a while before writing a second sentence – “Why is> it so important for me to be a strong independent person?” That is how the> new track has built up organically.”

VULNERABLE AND AMBITIOUS The song about the social pressure to always stand up for yourself (and notneed anyone) is a foretaste of what we can expect in the future. “In wantingto be strong and independent, I have long pushed aside my vulnerable side andmy need to have someone by my side. But what if you see an emancipated Beyoncéin her music videos constantly beating cars when confronted by her boyfriend’scheating.” That tough attitude is over 7 already somewhat shaved off andpromises to be pushed even more to the background on her first full-lengthlong player, planned for 2023.

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Before her breakthrough, an ambitious Dos Santos told us about five years agothat she would like to collaborate on that first real album with top namessuch as Kaytranada, Flying Lotus and a handful of jazz musicians. Now herdreamcast leans more towards Thundercat, Ashley Henry and preferably also someCape Verdean musicians from Cesária Évora’s entourage. “More concrete (laughs ) my producer is staying on board and I am collaborating with JosephSchiano di Lombo, a classical pianist from Paris. Then we look for othermusicians. Apart from that, my message has to be clear on that first album.The challenge is to explain why I am who I am and love the way I love.”

BOOM PATAT France is also looking forward to that debut. “Here my relaunch seems to beslowing down a bit in the wake of the pandemic, but in France it is boomfries. At the end of August I was on Rock en Seine, coincidentally just atthe same time as Stromae. I was like this proud that about 400 festival-goers did not go to see him. I wouldn’t have known myself if I would have donethe same in their place. ( laughs ) So congratulations to the French fans.”

There are those women who always know how to look chic. In our eyes, one ofthose women is of course our (style) queen Máxima. Whatever she is wearing,she knows how to surprise us time and time again with the most beautifullooks. What if we told you we discovered one of her favorite styling tricks?The great thing about this is that it ‘s actually much simpler than you think.She appears more often in ton-sur-ton looks and in our opinion this is theperfect way to dress. If it doesn’t mean anything to you, it is simply said tobe dressed in one basic color, where you can alternate in the shades. This wayyou will look very chic without having to put too much effort into it. Alsocurious how she uses it? Scroll down quickly for a healthy dose ofinspiration and matching shopable items.

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IKEA’s first record player is part of the new collection Obegränsad(‘limitless’), aimed at people who make music at home. Completely in black,the collection is the result of a collaboration between Swedish dance DJsSwedish House Mafia and Friso Wiersma, the only Dutch in-house designer atIKEA. The collection includes a special desk, cabinets, racks and bags thatexactly fit LPs and even slippers. But the eye-catcher is the minimalistrecord player.

“Vinyl in itself is something irrational. Other minimalist turntables areoften thin and slim, but I chose a rather thick, chunky design. The recordplayer can take up a lot of space in your interior, you also make a statementwith it,” says Wiersma from Sweden. The record player has a turntable that ispartly positioned over the edge of the housing. “This emphasizes the circle.The circle also plays a major role in the visual identity of Swedish HouseMafia,” explains Wiersma.

The turntable has a built-in preamplifier, a replaceable cartridge and needle,and a USB-C power cable. Connecting to speakers is done with a simple RCAcable. “We wanted to make a very accessible record player. Simple to use andin shape,” says Wiersma.

The romance of spinning pictures

The turntable is not intended for audiophiles. “It is for people who are juststarting out with vinyl. It is as much ‘plug-and-play’ as possible. It isabout the essence of playing records. Everything is deliberately not digital.We therefore do not have a bluetooth function for wireless streaming tospeakers or headphones built-in.”

According to Wiersma, the cables also deliberately run along the side insteadof the back. “That’s why you can see them well. Cables are part of the analogexperience.” If you want better sound quality later on, you can replace theAudio Technica brand cartridge with a more expensive one. Wiersma: “I think itsounds super good. I’ve already exchanged my own old Philips record player forthis record player.”

The Dutch designer himself is a music fanatic and a great lover of vinyl. “Themusic experience is very different from Spotify or Apple Music. You’re almostschizophrenic listening through playlists and shuffle from one artist toanother. The great thing about records is the idea that artists have createdsomething from scratch. builds up to the end. In short, music as the artistintended. And it’s also a pleasant way to listen. I like the romance of it,the act of turning a record.”

Stimulating creativity

The Dutchman is one of fourteen in-house designers at IKEA and has previouslydesigned furniture, salad bowls and cutlery. “But this collection suits me themost, because music is a very big passion of mine. I also make music and sing,and used to be in a band. I’ve always had a record player too. Music is a wayof life for me and I also go to concerts a lot. There are a lot of people formusic is very important and they want that reflected in their interior.”

The Swedish furniture chain often comes up with special collections aimed athobbies, such as cooking or gaming. Obegränsad responds to the growing groupthat makes music themselves on their laptop or tablet. “We want to stimulatethat creativity and interaction. That is why this collection has, among otherthings, a producers desk, a desk with a layout aimed at producing music.Together with Swedish House Mafia we have thought about how to set up a studioat home. They also used to have their own own studio built with IKEAfurniture.” The desk also has two speaker stands and a shelf that can bepulled out from under the desktop, for example for a midi keyboard.

In addition to the record player, Wiersma is also proud of the clock in thenew collection. That is a black circle in which three small white circlesrevolve around each other. “Music can give time a different kind of role. Wewanted a way to convey that sense of intimacy.”

Chat at the bar with IKEA CEO

Wiersma calls the fact that he ended up at IKEA five years ago ‘just luck’. “Igot to talk to an IKEA CEO at the bar after a design conference in Amsterdam.We immediately clicked and was invited for a conversation in Sweden. I comefrom a Frisian family with carpenters. I love craft and design. down toearth is aimed at real use. IKEA is also very involved in this, design isvery close to the consumer. What you want to say as a designer is subordinateto that.”

In his time as a student, Wiersma didn’t like IKEA. “I saw IKEA as my enemythen. I made furniture that cost at least a thousand euros because it washandmade. You then have to compete against an IKEA that sells everything for afew hundred euros. I did a project about what I would do differently if I hadan industrial process like IKEA available. Robot techniques and computer-controlled machines are making more and more possible.”

Probably sold out quickly

Wiersma’s record player is available from October 1 for 129 euros, but theedition is limited. IKEA therefore expects that the turntable will be sold outquickly. “This is a kind of experiment. We are curious how this will bereceived. But it has already received so much attention worldwide in recentmonths. The record player was for sale in Belgium for a day due to a mistakeand was immediately sold out. TikTok videos about it have been viewed millionsof times.”

Finally: what is Wiersma’s favorite LP? “From Chet Baker. By the way, my wifeand I buy each other new LPs every few weeks at the local record store. We’relucky: one of the best record stores in all of Sweden is right here in our

Khloé Kardashian may have rejected Tristan Thompson’s first proposal, butPEOPLE has learned she accepted a second proposal — and the off-again couplewere secretly engaged for nine months.

Kardashian, 38, revealed to sister Kim Kardashian on Thursday’s episode of_The Kardashians_ that she said no to Thompson, 31, when he initially askedher to marry him. Now a source tells PEOPLE that proposal occurred in December2019.

RELATED: Khloé Kardashian Rejected Tristan Thompson ‘s Secret ProposalBecause She Wouldn’t Be ‘Proud’ Of Relationship

Despite lingering concerns about Thompson’s infidelity, the couple hadrekindled when he popped the question a second time, and Kardashian said yesaround February 2021.

Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian pose for a photo as Remy Martincelebrates Tristan Thompson’s Birthday at Beauty & Essex on March 10, 2018 inLos Angeles, California

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That year, the couple were seriously planning to conceive a second childtogether. The pair’s first child, daughter True, was born in April 2018 on theimmediate heels of Kardashian’s first public embarrassment about Thompson’scheating.

RELATED: Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson ‘s RelationshipTimeline

Through a surrogate, Kardashian and Thompson successfully conceived a secondchild in the final weeks of 2021 — just as news broke that Thompson hadfathered a baby with another woman, Maralee Nichols.

At that point, Kardashian called off the secret engagement in December 2021.

The pair welcomed their son, whose name is not yet known, this past August.

Kardashian allowed Thompson into the room to meet the infant, admitting, “I’vebeen on the fence about letting Tristan come to the hospital or not, butTristan wants to be here so I just figured, why not let him come? I’ ll neverget this moment back.”

RELATED: Tristan Thompson Met Son He Shares with Khloé Kardashian inHospital: ‘He Wants to Be Here’

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HULU Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson with their son

On the latest episode of The Kardashians , Kim alluded to the somewhatsquishy timeline of Thompson’s proposals. “I’ll never forget Tristan callingme and he was gonna propose to her on Valentine’s Day, which was a year sincethey had drama so this was last Valentine’s Day,” she said. “And then I calledhim the day after and I was like, ‘Hey, I never heard anything from Khloé. Ohmy god, did you propose?” and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, I did in December.’ Oh myGod, she didn’t tell us!”

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But once the couple did decide to make it official, they kept that informationto themselves and off the show.

RELATED: Khloé Kardashian Shares First Look into Son ‘s Birth as ShePuts Tristan Thompson ‘Trauma’ Behind Her

The Good American founder explained her reasons behind her initial refusal toget engaged on this week’s Kardashians.

“I said, ‘I need to make sure this is a totally different relationship becauseI wanna be proud to say I’m engaged to anyone,'” she recalled. “And that’s whyI said, ‘I’m not comfortable accepting this right now because I’m not excitedto tell my family,’ and as hurtful as that probably was for him to hear, itwas the truth. I’m not ever gonna accept something or give someone false hope,and I said that to him.”

Khloé Kardashian attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: AnAnthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in NewYork City

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“Going through what I went through was Tristan was incredibly hard,” she lateracknowledged in a confessional. “The hardest part about it all is trainingyourself to un-love someone. This was my life for six years. And we weren’tjust a couple, we genuinely were best friends. He was my workout buddy, we didall these things together. And so learning how to undo all those things, thattakes time. Just because someone does you dirty doesn’t mean you fall out oflove with them instantly.”

News of the secret engagement was previously reported by BuzzFeed and_Entertainment Tonight Canada_.

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All NPO broadcasters, except NOS, refuse to talk or collaborate with OngehoordNederland in the field of journalism. That broadcaster does not engage injournalism, the broadcasting associations argue in a letter to Gijs vanBeusekom, the genre manager of the NPO who is responsible for journalisticproductions.

Normally, all broadcasters discuss the journalistic course of the NPOtogether. The heads of journalism of the broadcasters now state that OngehoordNederland ‘in our view does not conduct journalism, but uses its programmingto put forward points of view and opinions that are not journalisticallysubstantiated’.

‘The NPO’s genre consultation is a place where the heads of journalism explorethe profession together and keep each other on their toes, but this is onlypossible if all participants share the same basic journalistic principles,such as hearing both sides of the argument and finding the truth,’ accordingto the broadcasters.

The current programming of Ongehoord Nederland does not meet this in the eyesof the other broadcasters. The letter is signed by AvroTros, BNNVara, WNL,Human, Omroep Zwart, Omroep Max, KRO-NCRV, VPRO, EO and Powned. WNL editor-in-chief Bert Huisjes said yesterday that his broadcaster no longer wants totalk.

The NOS has not joined the call. “I can’t find a solution in advance not tocome to the table,” says editor-in-chief Giselle van Cann of NOS Nieuws.,,That genre consultation is precisely the place to say what you think ofjournalism. It is not for me to make an administrative judgment.”

The NPO takes the letter “extremely seriously”, a spokesperson said. He saysthat the NPO ‘has not yet taken a position’ on the issue. “We will discussthat.”

Quote >>> The genre meeting is a place where the heads of journalism explore the> profession together and keep each other on their toes, but this is only> possible if all participants share the same journalistic fundamentals>> Broadcasters in letter

Sanction

Ongehoord Nederland previously received a financial sanction from the NPOafter an investigation by the Ombudsman into complaints that the broadcasterwould spread incorrect and unreliable information, that the journalists wouldnot ask enough critical questions and that the guests would mainly come fromthe right. This would be contrary to the journalistic code of the NPO. TheOmbudsman considered these complaints to be largely well-founded.

The Ombudsman has launched a new investigation after a much-discussed itemthat showed videos of random black people beating up white people without anycontext. Presenter Raisa Blommestijn stated that the black perpetrators allhad a racist motive. But from research by pointer has shown that there is noevidence for this.

As a result of this item, the Ombudsman again received many hundreds ofcomplaints. The NPO has also asked the Media Authority to look into whetherOngehoord Nederland has violated the media law.

Ongehoord Nederland and broadcaster Arnold Karskens could not be reached forcomment today. But in the program Unheard of News accused presenterBlommestijn of excluding the fellow broadcasters ‘the sound of millions ofDutch people’. She also accused the NPO of ‘standing for connection andinclusion, but now doing nothing but excluding and throwing mud’.

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