An incredibly good evening.
Here we have a fresh tap, a cozy café full of familiar faces
and eyes everywhere shining with curiosity.
Because from now on there's only one question that really matters in life:
Who is the mole?
Right now there are ten possible answers.
Tonight we'll reveal those answers for the very first time,
to everyone in the café and to my guests,
Timon Verbeeck and Imane Boudadi.
Welcome to Café De Mol.
The best and most fun café in the country is open again.
For the next eight weeks we'll be here every Sunday
at Play Zuid in Antwerp.
Imane and Timon, welcome both of you.
Hello. - Thank you.
Ready for the new season? Excited?
Super ready. - We already have a little request for you.
Already? - To make it a bit more cozy in here.
Okay, yeah. Can we take our shoes off?
Fine by me, go right ahead.
Does taking your shoes off really make it cozier?
Yeah, like we're sitting on the couch watching 'De Mol'.
Absolutely fine by me.
Imane, a lot of people know you from 'De Slimste Mens'.
You were clearly comfortable there too.
So that's your thing? - Yeah.
You couldn't take your shoes off there, so this is already better?
My shoes were clean there, and now they're not.
You might also know her from MNM. She hosts the morning show
and the podcast '22 Minutes of Dumb Questions'.
A simple concept.
Like: when did you last fart?
Do I have to answer that? - About fifteen minutes ago, I think.
There you go. - I was there for that.
Timon, you've been a guest before too.
Yeah, I thought it was one of the most fun things I've ever done.
Really? - In the media.
Cool. - In the past two years.
On this channel. - It was genuinely great.
Imane, staying on theme, I'm going to ask a dumb question right away.
Do you ever watch 'De Mol'? - I love watching 'De Mol'.
I used to watch 'De Mol' when I was a student too.
Last year I started hosting the morning show on MNM.
Since then... Last year I couldn't watch all that much.
Because I was already in bed.
Oh no, no, no.
I'm so sorry. - Are you going to make up for it this year?
Yeah, I'm absolutely going to make up for it. - Are you good at spotting the mole?
I'm always good at the start
but then I let other people's theories distract me too much.
That's dangerous. Then it becomes:
in that episode there was a green wall
and in the episode before, that person was also in front of a green wall.
So that's the mole. And I think: yeah, that's the mole.
And then it's completely wrong. Luckily you're sitting next to someone
who's really good at finding the mole. Right, Timon.
Proved it last year when you sat here.
Everyone starts laughing. - I got it right.
When did you get it right? - The last episode, I think.
When I still had a thirty percent chance.
To find the mole, you need something very important.
Here they are, your very own mole notebooks.
You get to choose who gets which color.
Can I... - You're getting red, of course.
You have no choice. Use it today,
it might come in handy to pick up on certain things.
You'll use these to analyze and pick apart every episode.
But you won't be alone, more people will be joining
in our café, in 'Café De Mol' this year.
Also Bregje Iding, Elodie Gabias, Jonatan Medart
and Manu Van Acker will be hunting for the mole here too.
We've already got some great people in our café,
you of course, Imane and Timon,
but all the candidates from the Thailand season are here too.
Welcome.
The three finalists are seated at their own table of honor.
Michèle, Alexy and Sarah. Good evening, everyone. Welcome.
Michèle, you often hear that contestants from 'De Mol'
become a tight-knit group of friends. How is that for you?
How is that in your season?
It's really not an exaggeration. We just went on a weekend trip together.
I saw things there that I just can't unsee.
Nimi, for example.
We had a pool there and Nimi had forgotten his swim trunks.
We got to know him in a very different way.
Okay, okay. - Even closer then, really.
Alexy, you got to take the prize money home last year.
What did you do with it? - That weekend trip you just heard about.
But that's the only thing. Otherwise I've been very well-behaved.
Sarah, you were the mole. How was your year?
It's been an incredible rollercoaster
once the episodes started airing, but definitely after too, with the finale.
We were just talking about how crazy it was to be standing in Kinepolis.
And we're saying: Today we're passing the torch.
But what we take away from it is honestly the best gift.
That's super cheesy, but that's exactly how we feel.
It's amazing.
In a moment we'll get to meet the ten new candidates.
Then we need to bring someone in, the man who can tell us
who the new candidates of 'De Mol' are.
The head honcho of 'De Mol', Gilles De Coster.
Hey Gilles.
Hey Gilles, good evening. Are you keeping your shoes on?
For everyone's health, that seems best.
I'm glad you're here. Last year you were in a Thai restaurant
to introduce the candidates, now you're back here.
My daughter had just been born, so going to a bar was a bit tricky,
but I'm allowed out again now.
Great, the café is just as cozy as ever.
'De Mol' is set in Portugal this year.
Why Portugal? - Mainly pastéis de nata.
Fair enough.
Because it's a really beautiful country
where I've been on holiday many times and absolutely love.
After those three times we weren't exactly welcome back in Thailand.
That was already out of the question.
Last year you made quite an impression yourself.
Oh really? - By pronouncing Bangkok
in Thai. - You're not going to ask me again, are you?
Can you still do it? - No, that's gone.
Completely? - No, it's really gone.
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon... - Oh be quiet.
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin...
I can't get any further. - That's about a third of it.
Is your Portuguese better than your Thai? - Even worse.
It's an incredibly hard language. You just can't learn it.
It's kind of like West Flemish with attitude.
Easy now. - Oh right, sorry.
Is your Portuguese any better?
Is it 'obrigado'? - Yes.
Obrigado. - But not 'obrigadoo'.
(Flemish accent) Obrigado.
Luckily there's someone here who can say it properly, Pedro.
Hey Pedro.
Good evening.
It's not 'obrigado'. It's 'obrigadoe'.
'Doe'. 'Obrigadoe'.
The O is always an 'oe'. Usually, anyway.
You have Portuguese roots. - Yes, that's right.
Let me explain. My mother is Portuguese.
She came to Ghent to study. She met my father
and, well, one thing led to another.
I'm basically half Portuguese.
Do you still go back often? - All the time.
I spent all my holidays there as a kid.
I also went to school there for a year.
For me it's my second home, my motherland.
What did you think when you heard 'De Mol' was in Portugal this year?
I thought it was amazing. What I found strange
was that they hadn't been to Portugal before.
It's so close by and so varied.
There's so much possible there that I thought: finally.
Such a great country, it's about time.
What regions should they definitely have visited?
I'm most into beaches. I'm obsessed
when it comes to beaches. I lie on the beach there all summer long.
First like this, then like that.
We have a map of Portugal that also makes something clear.
Those are roughly the regions we visited.
I can see the north, I'm less familiar with that.
My mother lives in the south, about an hour below Lisbon.
That's the area I know best, Lisbon.
I can also see Évora, a very old, authentic city.
It's phenomenal.
Enough chatting. Maybe we should do what we're actually here for.
People want to know who the candidates are this season.
How are we going to do this today?
There's something going on with the candidate group.
There are some overlaps in terms of age.
So I've divided them into three groups
based on their age.
There are three who are exactly the same age, 26.
So actually quite young.
There are three who are fifty-somethings, just barely, barely fifty.
Amazing, I can already hear people saying. Rightfully so.
Wisdom and age.
Then a remaining category, the thirties and forties.
That's four of them.
We'll introduce them in those categories.
I suggest Imane and Timon decide which category we start with.
Go ahead, which category first.
I already heard: the fifty-somethings, amazing.
So let's start with the fifty-somethings.
All right, great. Then I'd love to introduce you
to Karla, a VAT specialist from Bonheiden.
To Isabel, a banker from Westmalle.
And first to Vincent, a software developer from Grimbergen.
I could also introduce them a bit more concisely as:
tsjip-tjsap, Sushi King and camel foot.
I once sang, a long time ago.
I wrecked my voice from singing. I had nodules and had surgery.
I had to do a few weeks of speech therapy.
I'm standing there and the first thing she asks me is:
could you sculpt or act out what you'd like your voice to look like.
I was like: come on, seriously?
I keep a straight face and I say...
Something about openness.
At a certain point she stands in front of me, kneels down,
grabs both my feet and shouts twice, I kid you not:
Camel feet, camel feet.
I'm standing there on my bare feet and she shouts it twice: Camel feet.
She says at a certain point: Now I want you to do that to me too.
I did that. I knelt down in front of that woman.
I said: Camel feet, camel...
True story, true story.
I am the best driver in the family.
I can park blindfolded.
When I sit next to Dirk, I think...
He needs four goes left, right, and still can't get it in straight.
For me it's one-two done and I'm in.
Really good. - Even as a little girl,
my dad taught me to drive. It was like: hop, bam, done.
Always been good at it.
But now I've really become a proper little old granny.
Except when I get to drive Dirk's Tesla.
That's just a rush. Zip...
Then that thing just shoots forward.
My daughter can't handle it: mama. Just like that.
Are you a good...? - No.
A kitchen princess, I'll put it that way. - No. No.
I really don't like cooking. I really don't enjoy it.
I don't like grocery shopping. I'd rather always go to a restaurant.
We don't do that. But I really don't like it.
All that prep and being creative: what are we having? It's never right anyway.
And baking, Isabel? I mean: cakes, muffins, cookies. No?
No, what a hassle.
It's so much work, baking a cake.
I'll go sit outside in a little chair with a book.
And I'll call Sushi King.
Three fifty-somethings: Karla, Isabel and Vincent.
Do you have anything more to say about those three?
Yes, because I can see my friends already diligently writing in their mole notebooks.
Karla lives in Bonheiden, VAT specialist.
Dirk has a Tesla, now we know that too.
She lives there with her daughter, three stepchildren
and seventeen land tortoises.
There you go, not sixteen, not eighteen. That's very random.
It is random, but it is the truth.
Isabel from Westmalle runs two bank branches,
lives there with her three children
and there are also quite a few cats in that household.
Doesn't like cooking, which I think is fairly obvious.
Vincent, software developer, married, two kids, in Grimbergen
and he has a past in the TV world.
Fortunately he turned his life around and started something new.
He loves cheese fondue and singing.
And sauna visits.
You want random info, I deliver. - I love the random info.
I can see Timon and Imane already writing things down seriously.
First impression? - I put a heart next to Karla.
Me too, me too. Look, me too.
I thought she gave off really nice mom vibes.
Timon. - I think Vincent looks young.
He doesn't look 51. That's already mole behavior.
He's already lied about his age.
Quite notable, three fifty-somethings in this year's group.
Last year it was different, there was one fifty-something, Hilde.
Good evening.
Three fifty-somethings this year.
Do you think: I would have loved that, last year.
This just makes me very content and happy.
I'm so happy with all this richness around me.
How was it for you among all the young ones?
I never felt like the oldest, so...
Did you have to prepare physically for 'De Mol'?
I started jogging six weeks before, together with my daughter.
So I made it to week six of the Evy program.
Start to Run. - Start to Run, yeah.
Week six, how far is that, 200 meters?
We're not asking that. - That's basically just stopping the walking.
But dedication, Hilde, I think that's really great.
The next group then. Maybe the 26-year-olds.
Intriguing too. Gilles, tell us. - Three 26-year-olds.
I'd love to introduce you to my newest 26-year-old friends.
They come from all corners.
Maïté, born in India, but now lives in Ghent,
with a Ghent accent.
Then there's Maxim, also 26, who comes from an even more exotic background,
Gullegem, West Flanders.
Complete with the matching accent.
Then we'll first take a look at Julie from Kapellen near Antwerp.
Julie is a young woman with quite a few nicknames
and one big hobby.
I'm a horse girl. I love that horse,
it's not that I'm ashamed of it.
But I don't want people to think that I do two little braids at night,
put on a pink riding hat and go to that horse with a My Little Pony schoolbag,
because that's definitely not the case.
I was born and I basically had two nicknames:
Boulet and Spruitje.
They used to think I had a big round head.
Honestly, it's really not that bad. I've seen the photos too.
I'm no more of a chubby baby than any other baby.
My friends just call me Jul or something, or Julien.
Julien, when I've been drinking.
A "Julienke" was for example: you could buy little holders for your pints.
I had bought one and a friend said: I'm going to put that beer glass in
and pour it from my mouth into your mouth.
Just open up, mouth open.
She dumps it all over my stomach. There's a video of it.
And sending that to my parents too.
That's doing a "Julienke", just drunk-texting:
this is why my clothes are always so dirty.
I saw those two blue WhatsApp ticks
and they didn't even respond. They saw something.
After secondary school..
No, after college I went to work in hospitality, so I could travel a lot.
I had the feeling: I don't want to settle down yet.
Or I didn't feel ready for a serious job.
Not that hospitality isn't serious.
Then I worked until I had enough money to go travelling.
For two years I lived like that.
Then I went travelling for six months. And then my parents said:
Now you have to get serious. So now I work for the city.
I have an older brother, an older sister.
My parents are bakers.
I'm the spoiled one of the family.
I think personality-wise I'm a chaotic person.
Someone who's very motivated and always very enthusiastic. Someone who...
If I ran into myself, I'd spend a whole evening at a café with myself,
just sitting across from each other without boring myself.
When I was young, they always asked: What do you want to be?
Some people say astronaut or professional footballer.
Plumber, that appealed to me.
Mario Bros, they were two plumbers too, Mario and Luigi.
So that did inspire me.
I don't want that anymore, but it seemed like something nice to be.
That pays well. - That pays well, I think.
You can fiddle the books a bit too, you know.
Three 26-year-olds: Julie, Maïté and Maxim.
Gilles, any more info on these three?
Definitely, random info. Julie or Spruitje, Jul or Julien or Boulet,
marketer in the pharma sector. Horse girl.
She describes herself as loud and enthusiastic.
A big mystery is that she says she supports
both Antwerp and Beerschot.
Which for Antwerp people and far beyond...
I'm just putting it out there.
You brought her along? You brought a Beerschot fan?
I don't quite understand it either, but that's a choice she made.
Maïté was born in the south of India.
She has very diverse hobbies.
She took a baking course, has a small catering business,
poses for art students, she drums
and she now works as a civic integration officer
to help other newcomers find their way in our country.
Maxim has the same barber as Timon, looking at it now.
He's a baker's son. He's crazy about éclairs, understandable.
He's a digital designer
and has watched 'Game of Thrones' six times.
The full series, including that terrible last season.
Make of that what you will.
I think now a hundred percent of the residents of Gullegem
have been a candidate on 'De Mol'.
What I remember is that he'd enjoy going out for a drink with himself.
He seems like a great guy to me. I immediately put a question mark next to him.
With smooth talkers you trust too quickly.
He also wanted to start cutting corners as a plumber.
And I think: there's something off there.
I'm mainly wondering what a 'boulet head' is.
A very round head. - A round head.
Like a meatball. Have you never ordered a boulet at the chip shop?
No, chicken drumsticks on a stick.
That's what I always order. - It would be very strange
if your head looked like that.
Do you also have alter egos, like Julie apparently?
No, not really.
But in my student days when I went out
and I'd had just a tiny drop of alcohol,
I become a massive girl's girl.
Then I start defending women I don't even know,
who I just suspect might be getting bothered.
Sometimes they're just having a conversation with a man.
Then it's not necessary. But hey, that's my alter ego.
In a moment Gilles will introduce the other candidates to us
and he also has exclusive footage for us.
Timon is in the meantime going to buy a round.
He knows now too, he's going to do it.
We'll be right back for part 2 of 'Café De Mol'. See you shortly.
Welcome back to 'Café De Mol'.
I'm still here with Imane, Timon and Gilles De Coster.
Today we're getting to know the ten candidates of this season of 'De Mol'.
Gilles, we've had the fifty-somethings, the 26-year-olds.
Then all that's left are the leftovers.
That's not the most respectful way to announce it.
Let's say, people who are between 26 and 50.
That's a nicer description.
I'd love to introduce you to Dries, IT manager from the Kempen,
but he now lives somewhere else.
He sat in class with an absolute world star.
Then we go... Yes, yes.
Then there's Kristof, our only forty-something.
Bar owner in Lier.
Then there's Wout, gardener from Zemst near Mechelen.
You'll see, he's a man who loves a plan.
We start with Abigail, who has roots in Ghana.
She lived in China and has now moved to a real world city:
Lommel.
I'm someone who enjoys life, so I love doing lots of things:
good food, shopping, going on holiday.
I do like to treat myself sometimes.
I don't show it either. I already take the tags off.
Especially if it's a dress that cost a lot, for example.
My husband can ask: Is that new?
I've gotten good at saying: No, I've already worn that before.
We lived in China for a year.
I could manage the basics there: telling the taxi driver where I needed to go.
I hope it still sounds roughly like this, but I think it does.
I always managed to get where I needed to go, so I think it was right.
I've had a hospitality business in Lier for twelve years now.
't Kafaat, it's a kind of brown pub in the city centre.
What kind of boss are you?
A bad one, I think.
Well.. Good for the staff maybe, but I'm too soft, I think.
I think I'm also a bit...
I don't think so — I'm pretty sure I'm conflict-avoidant.
So I tend to try to avoid conflicts.
Because of that I maybe let things slide when I should be firmer.
I often hear that I look younger than I am.
Now I'm starting to find my first grey hairs.
I started pulling them out, but I can't keep up anymore.
But that's fine too. I'm forty. You can't avoid it.
Today? Yeah, I went this morning and haven't been since.
I have been drinking enough water. It's necessary.
In secondary school I basically never went to the toilet.
The number of times in secondary school that I went to the toilet,
I can count on one hand. It's not that I didn't want to.
There were toilets, of course. But it just never happened.
I don't know. I just never needed to go.
It was in the morning before I went to school and in the evening when I got home.
You went to school with Wout van Aert? - In the same class, even.
He studied, believe it or not, applied computer science.
I think I once skipped a class to help him convert his Facebook page...
or his Facebook profile into a Facebook page.
He was getting random friend requests from people he didn't know at all.
Then we did that at lunchtime... Or we even skipped a class for it.
Neither of us really irons.
We do have a steamer.
But we've got a really good method for...
We beat our clothes completely smooth.
With hitting? - Yeah, when they come out of the washing machine,
you have to beat them hard in the air.
Then you have to hang them up nicely. We always do it together.
I beat them and she hangs them up.
The neighbours must sometimes think: what are they up to over there?
That works a treat.
I've discovered that I now like
cooking HelloFresh-style meals.
Because that's a plan I have to follow and I love that.
I love Ikea too. That's also just following a plan.
Putting a wardrobe together, amazing.
I love that. I've even thought about:
maybe I should make a business out of going to people's homes to build Ikea wardrobes.
Abigail, Dries, Kristof and Wout.
Quite a group with interesting business ideas.
Do you have more to tell us about these four?
Abigail, 33, works in childcare.
Which is handy when you're traveling with rowdy children,
like with us, so she has that experience.
She's married, has two children
and she represents Limburg in this group.
Dries is a son of the Kempen, but now lives in Boortmeerbeek,
after having also lived in Bruges.
So he managed the Facebook profile page thing
for Wout van Aert. - Still something to put on your CV.
Now goes to the toilet like a normal person. I think.
Kristof has a café in Lier, 't Kafaat.
Everyone from Lier, go check it out.
He has a girlfriend. I don't quite understand what he has against grey hair.
I'm glad you don't pull yours out, otherwise...
That would be sad. - Then you'd be Philippe Geubels.
I'd be busy forever.
Wout who loves Ikea cabinets doesn't work for Ikea yet,
but for the Vrijbroekpark in Mechelen. He's a gardener,
administrative worker and also a DJ and videographer.
And he beats his clothes. I'd never heard of that.
Neither had I. Apparently it works.
Do you have any experience with beating clothes?
No, but I don't iron either, so it might be a good idea
to try it. - But you don't beat them either.
No, no. - You just put them away.
I just stick them in the wardrobe and see what happens.
That idea about Ikea cabinets, I've had that thought too.
I love putting Ikea cabinets together.
I also ask everyone who moves:
If you go to Ikea, can I come along?
And can I put your cabinets together?
Imane, that's a disorder. You need to be careful with that.
I really love it, so I find it crazy
that there's someone else with the same love for it.
Anything else that stuck with you? - I'm going to say something smart.
Here it comes. Kristof says he's conflict-avoidant.
I wrote that down too. - That's going to be tough
when there are exemption questions up for grabs.
Now he introduces himself as an honest person.
We'll see about that.
Dries was in class with Wout van Aert.
Where did we see him today, Gilles?
He was on the same episode of 'De Slimste Mens' as Imane.
You have to pay attention to everything. - Yes, that's true.
Always looking for extra value, Gilles De Coster.
That's going to help with the searching.
We've seen them all, all the candidates.
One of them is the mole.
Maybe time to ask the finalists from last year.
What does your gut say about these ten?
Tough. - I would love it
if a fifty-something is the mole. - We said that too.
There are three fifty-somethings, so we think:
maybe it could be someone...
Up to now I think I was the oldest mole ever
and I don't feel old at all.
Alexy, you're a specialist. You won last season.
What does your gut say? - I've already decided
that I have nothing more to prove, so I'm going to go with tunnel vision.
Kristof, I trusted him straight away, that's dangerous.
I'm going with Kristof.
There's someone who does have something to prove here, Pedro.
Your gut feeling might be the most interesting of everyone's.
What does yours say?
I'm going to have to work out a strategy, I think.
Maxim. - Hilde, did you see anything?
Something suspicious?
My gut also says Maxim.
We don't know much yet, almost nothing at all.
Still, everyone in the café can pick their first suspect.
You all have a QR code on your table.
Get your phone out, scan the QR code
and then you can follow your gut feeling
and pick your first prime suspect,
even before we've seen a single second of the season.
Imane, who did you vote for?
I voted for Maïté.
She's worked in hospitality, she's traveled a lot.
I just think: she reads people well
and she might be able to wrap everyone around her finger. I don't know.
It's a guess. - Of course, Timon?
I voted for Isabel. - Why?
Why?
I had no basis for it. - I just went
with my gut. - Okay, gut feeling.
Let's see what the gut feeling of our whole café is.
Vincent with clear numbers, 22 percent.
Gilles, we've seen everyone. How was the group this year?
Good. Of course at least as fun, attractive
and athletic as last year's.
At least. - At least.
Really fun, enthusiastic. They were all happy with Portugal. Rightly so.
We'll get to know them every Sunday from now on in 'De Mol'.
But there's something extra this year. We're doing a behind the scenes again.
We have the great Jan De Troij, one of our editors,
given a camera. He didn't turn it off for three weeks.
He's going to put a mini-report on the Play app every episode,
about everything that happens with the candidates between challenges.
He also made one for this 'Café De Mol',
specifically the candidates' departure.
The day they arrive at Zaventem unsuspecting,
not knowing where the trip is going,
all kept apart from each other and ready to depart.
One by one the candidates arrive at Brussels Airport.
I'll just take this off.
How are you? Excited for the trip?
Yes! - Are you nervous?
The stress is starting to kick in now. The last few days were fine,
but this morning when I woke up, it was like: it's really happening.
I was very calm until I got here and couldn't find the way.
But now I'm fine.
I just had tiramisu for breakfast that my sweetheart had bought me.
So now I'm pretty relaxed.
Do you have any idea where we're going?
No idea at all. I think we might be staying in Belgium.
You have no idea where we're going? - None at all.
I'll give you a hint. I'll let you hear the language of the country we're going to.
Okay.
Você vai para Portugal.
What do you think?
Portugal. - Wow, crazy, you speak that.
Oh, to Portugal. That's nice, that's nice.
The candidates all travel separately and are not allowed to talk to anyone.
They don't yet know who the other candidates are,
because the idea is that they'll only meet each other for the first time in Portugal.
Welcome on the flight to Porto. - Thank you.
Once they arrive in Portugal, they're blindfolded onto the bus.
I've got you.
I trust you blindly. - Okay, that's really good.
They're transported blindfolded one last time
to the island where the opening challenge will take place.
Jan Vertonghen is coming along too. - No.
It's a strange coincidence that he happened to be walking around there that day.
The only Jan who's coming along is the Jan who makes this every week.
A bit longer even, this is a taste of what's to come on 'Café De Mol'.
From next week with episode 1 you'll get to see a lot more.
Really fun. - Michèle, I saw you react straight away
when everyone arrived at the airport and got on the bus.
So relatable. Was it Maxim who said: I'm already lost.
That's very relatable.
I was more relaxed once I'd arrived.
At departure I was really scared I was going to miss the plane.
And I sat next to Els on the plane. How crazy is that.
Sarah, for you as the mole, how was that?
You realize: Oh my God, we're leaving. What are we going to experience?
That journey was really...
Seeing this again, and the blindfolds on day 1
and being guided to the location. It all comes flooding back.
Yeah, it all comes back.
Behind-the-scenes footage, that's really cool, of course.
But it's all about the real deal. From next Sunday
it's 'De Mol' every week again. You can watch it on Play
and of course there's also 'Café De Mol' every week.
But there are also the 'De Mol' Watch Parties.
At Play Zuid you can watch
the episodes of 'De Mol' on a big screen
together with Daphne Agten and fellow 'De Mol' fans.
There's popcorn and you can also get a photo with the eliminated contestant,
because they'll drop by here every week in 'Café De Mol'.
Want tickets? Just say the word.
Or in this case a QR code. You can scan it
and come to the 'De Mol' Watch Parties.
Gilles, we've discussed a lot. - Absolutely.
One important thing we haven't.
What were you doing at that Portuguese tailor's?
You saw it, having a suit made.
Having a suit made. Well, two suits actually.
We considered it, a red latex suit,
but that turned out to be difficult. The man wouldn't make it.
Yes, two suits. Two trailers have already dropped.
For the people who haven't seen them yet, a highlights reel.
- Moledo, Portugal -
Well done. - Thank you.
It's not for me. It's for a special friend.
What do you think of it yourself?
A perfect fit. - Perfect.
The others won't know what hit them.
Especially not combined
with her.
Timon and Imane. - I get goosebumps.
What are they trying to make us believe
with those two suits?
I actually think it's like the orange screens were.
That it's only something for the first episode.
I'm not going to tell you.
That's another week of waiting, Imane.
Timon, what's your idea?
You'd think: two moles.
But you once said it would never happen.
I say a lot. You've noticed that tonight.
That's true. I don't know how I'd feel about that.
I can't handle it. It's too exciting again.
We also discussed it on the morning show
and one option was also
that there would be a local helper somewhere.
That that woman is someone undercover in Portugal
who helps with sabotaging, but in the background.
He really does mean it's a woman.
Right? - You saw it though.
I'm not adding anything to that. - Sometimes you don't need to look far.
Two trailers filmed in Moledo.
It's right near where we'll start this series.
If there's a village called Moledo there, that's a nice bonus.
The mole hunters online will also see that the suit is meant
for someone who is 1.84 meters. - I don't know what you do with that.
I'm 1.94 meters, so it's not for me.
That's clear. - I also know you're not going to say anything.
But you've got something else. - I can show something.
That's fun. - We've had two trailers.
There's a third one.
These are the last images there will be before we start
with episode 1.
Everyone knows the candidates now,
and here they are in full glory and in action.
Dear friends.
Glad to see you.
Welcome to Portugal.
Here we are at last.
What happens here today
will determine the entire rest of the trip.
Fuck.
You're stuck on this island,
but how many of you will make it
to the mainland?
Sarah, Alexy, Michèle.
We had a warm container, they're definitely stuck.
Yeah, and that stress. How many of you make it...
The stress alone is terrible and then...
They're in shock. That's a good sign.
Pedro, what do you think? You can say it in Portuguese.
Eles foderam-nos outra vez.
And that means?
To put it politely: they've got us by the short and curlies again.
Of course.
More than anything, it just needs to start again.
I've almost run out of patience. - That's very positive in this case.
Luckily it all starts next week.
That's when the first episode of this season of 'De Mol' airs.
Gilles, big thanks for coming to introduce the candidates.
Everyone in the café, thank you for being here.
Timon, Imane, you'll be here next week too.
Please take your notebook with you.
Next week it's finally really happening.
Then the new season of 'De Mol' starts
and 'Café De Mol' will be back alongside it of course.
Thanks for watching. See you Sunday.