TV With ‘Dancing with the Stars’ polite Cat Kerkhofs (30) her definitive breakthrough to the public at large. Who wants them now cashing in. Mrs. Dries Mertens goes out for a mediacarrière, and that she does with Bob Savenberg (57) as a manager. “Cat has very much in her mars. We are going to talk with all interested stations.”
Bob Savenberg, in a far past, drummer and founder of Clouseau, since last year, ‘managing director’ at House of Entertainment. And that management has, after Andy Peelman, Mathias Vergels and Staf Coppens a new flagship. Kat Kerkhofs, signed yesterday his contract. The team of House of Entertainment, will be her exclusive guide to the further expansion of its mediacarrière. The time that Cat, especially, was known as ‘mrs Dries Mertens’ is already long gone. The sympathetic Leuven had the past few years, notice with reportageprogramma’women football’ and the documentary series ‘Tipsy’, which she, with her sister Lyn. But with ‘Dancing with the Stars’ – where she is in the finale just had to leave the cup for James Cooke – she broke down finally through to the public at large. That was also Bob Savenberg not fail to notice, that from now on its manager. “I followed the Cat all at the time of ‘women football’,” he says. “Then I noticed that they are very much in her mars and spicy questions. She has a lot of potential, and certainly not only as realityfiguur. In ‘Dancing with the Stars’, she proved that she is not on her mouth, and even a seasoned pro like Gert Verhulst as with the mouth full of teeth can do. In addition, she is by her disarming personality and a real crowd pleaser. So someone really can hear in our team. I think I have her as a manager, even a dash further you can go.”
Naples? No problem
Kerkhofs and House of Entertainment had the past few weeks several calls to keys in which direction her mediacarrière could go. “I want me nothing to pin down, but I see Cat has a bright future as a presenter and/or made television programmes”, says Bob Savenberg. “Or FOUR, VTM, One or another transmitter, this is not fixed yet. If there is interest, or someone comes up with an interesting proposal, then we will be with the channel in question is definitely going to talk. As long as Cat, but her thing can do.”
That Cat as the wife of an international soccer player will often be abroad here, see Savenberg not as an obstacle. “Yes, they stay often in Naples, but that need not be a problem. It is a matter of good planning. We will keep a long time in advance along with the Cat her calendar to overflowing and space for any media projects.” Also for Qore, its fitnesszaak in Leuven, would the new turn in her career have no consequences.
