1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,440 An incredibly good evening. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,560 Here we have a fresh tap, a cozy café full of familiar faces 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,720 and eyes everywhere shining with curiosity. 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,800 Because from now on there's only one question that really matters in life: 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,760 Who is the mole? 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,320 Right now there are ten possible answers. 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,960 Tonight we'll reveal those answers for the very first time, 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,240 to everyone in the café and to my guests, 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,400 Timon Verbeeck and Imane Boudadi. 10 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,400 Welcome to Café De Mol. 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,240 The best and most fun café in the country is open again. 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,920 For the next eight weeks we'll be here every Sunday 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,760 at Play Zuid in Antwerp. 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,480 Imane and Timon, welcome both of you. 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:52,760 Hello. - Thank you. 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,640 Ready for the new season? Excited? 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,160 Super ready. - We already have a little request for you. 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,480 Already? - To make it a bit more cozy in here. 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,040 Okay, yeah. Can we take our shoes off? 20 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,080 Fine by me, go right ahead. 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,800 Does taking your shoes off really make it cozier? 22 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,480 Yeah, like we're sitting on the couch watching 'De Mol'. 23 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,400 Absolutely fine by me. 24 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,480 Imane, a lot of people know you from 'De Slimste Mens'. 25 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,840 You were clearly comfortable there too. 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,320 So that's your thing? - Yeah. 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,760 You couldn't take your shoes off there, so this is already better? 28 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,560 My shoes were clean there, and now they're not. 29 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,360 You might also know her from MNM. She hosts the morning show 30 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,520 and the podcast '22 Minutes of Dumb Questions'. 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,160 A simple concept. 32 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,160 Like: when did you last fart? 33 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:39,040 Do I have to answer that? - About fifteen minutes ago, I think. 34 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,600 There you go. - I was there for that. 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,600 Timon, you've been a guest before too. 36 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,960 Yeah, I thought it was one of the most fun things I've ever done. 37 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:48,560 Really? - In the media. 38 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,080 Cool. - In the past two years. 39 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,560 On this channel. - It was genuinely great. 40 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,360 Imane, staying on theme, I'm going to ask a dumb question right away. 41 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,600 Do you ever watch 'De Mol'? - I love watching 'De Mol'. 42 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,400 I used to watch 'De Mol' when I was a student too. 43 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,600 Last year I started hosting the morning show on MNM. 44 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,280 Since then... Last year I couldn't watch all that much. 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,000 Because I was already in bed. 46 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,000 Oh no, no, no. 47 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,320 I'm so sorry. - Are you going to make up for it this year? 48 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,480 Yeah, I'm absolutely going to make up for it. - Are you good at spotting the mole? 49 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:21,480 I'm always good at the start 50 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,200 but then I let other people's theories distract me too much. 51 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,400 That's dangerous. Then it becomes: 52 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,880 in that episode there was a green wall 53 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,760 and in the episode before, that person was also in front of a green wall. 54 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:37,400 So that's the mole. And I think: yeah, that's the mole. 55 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,560 And then it's completely wrong. Luckily you're sitting next to someone 56 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,200 who's really good at finding the mole. Right, Timon. 57 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,440 Proved it last year when you sat here. 58 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,440 Everyone starts laughing. - I got it right. 59 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,720 When did you get it right? - The last episode, I think. 60 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,240 When I still had a thirty percent chance. 61 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,040 To find the mole, you need something very important. 62 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,200 Here they are, your very own mole notebooks. 63 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,240 You get to choose who gets which color. 64 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,680 Can I... - You're getting red, of course. 65 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,640 You have no choice. Use it today, 66 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,520 it might come in handy to pick up on certain things. 67 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,200 You'll use these to analyze and pick apart every episode. 68 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,080 But you won't be alone, more people will be joining 69 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,360 in our café, in 'Café De Mol' this year. 70 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,440 Also Bregje Iding, Elodie Gabias, Jonatan Medart 71 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,000 and Manu Van Acker will be hunting for the mole here too. 72 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,000 We've already got some great people in our café, 73 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,760 you of course, Imane and Timon, 74 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:30,080 but all the candidates from the Thailand season are here too. 75 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,520 Welcome. 76 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,680 The three finalists are seated at their own table of honor. 77 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,880 Michèle, Alexy and Sarah. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. 78 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,040 Michèle, you often hear that contestants from 'De Mol' 79 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,440 become a tight-knit group of friends. How is that for you? 80 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,040 How is that in your season? 81 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,560 It's really not an exaggeration. We just went on a weekend trip together. 82 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,720 I saw things there that I just can't unsee. 83 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Nimi, for example. 84 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,440 We had a pool there and Nimi had forgotten his swim trunks. 85 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,440 We got to know him in a very different way. 86 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,040 Okay, okay. - Even closer then, really. 87 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,960 Alexy, you got to take the prize money home last year. 88 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,120 What did you do with it? - That weekend trip you just heard about. 89 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:22,440 But that's the only thing. Otherwise I've been very well-behaved. 90 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Sarah, you were the mole. How was your year? 91 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,360 It's been an incredible rollercoaster 92 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,480 once the episodes started airing, but definitely after too, with the finale. 93 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,400 We were just talking about how crazy it was to be standing in Kinepolis. 94 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,960 And we're saying: Today we're passing the torch. 95 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,280 But what we take away from it is honestly the best gift. 96 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,280 That's super cheesy, but that's exactly how we feel. 97 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:47,520 It's amazing. 98 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,120 In a moment we'll get to meet the ten new candidates. 99 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,760 Then we need to bring someone in, the man who can tell us 100 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,200 who the new candidates of 'De Mol' are. 101 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,800 The head honcho of 'De Mol', Gilles De Coster. 102 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:09,920 Hey Gilles. 103 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,440 Hey Gilles, good evening. Are you keeping your shoes on? 104 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,920 For everyone's health, that seems best. 105 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,440 I'm glad you're here. Last year you were in a Thai restaurant 106 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,800 to introduce the candidates, now you're back here. 107 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,360 My daughter had just been born, so going to a bar was a bit tricky, 108 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,960 but I'm allowed out again now. 109 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,200 Great, the café is just as cozy as ever. 110 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,640 'De Mol' is set in Portugal this year. 111 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,920 Why Portugal? - Mainly pastéis de nata. 112 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,320 Fair enough. 113 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,920 Because it's a really beautiful country 114 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,800 where I've been on holiday many times and absolutely love. 115 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,360 After those three times we weren't exactly welcome back in Thailand. 116 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,720 That was already out of the question. 117 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,480 Last year you made quite an impression yourself. 118 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,480 Oh really? - By pronouncing Bangkok 119 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:53,840 in Thai. - You're not going to ask me again, are you? 120 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,440 Can you still do it? - No, that's gone. 121 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,160 Completely? - No, it's really gone. 122 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,000 Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon... - Oh be quiet. 123 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,240 Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin... 124 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,520 I can't get any further. - That's about a third of it. 125 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,800 Is your Portuguese better than your Thai? - Even worse. 126 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,960 It's an incredibly hard language. You just can't learn it. 127 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:19,280 It's kind of like West Flemish with attitude. 128 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,360 Easy now. - Oh right, sorry. 129 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Is your Portuguese any better? 130 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,440 Is it 'obrigado'? - Yes. 131 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,320 Obrigado. - But not 'obrigadoo'. 132 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:29,920 (Flemish accent) Obrigado. 133 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,280 Luckily there's someone here who can say it properly, Pedro. 134 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:35,760 Hey Pedro. 135 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,800 Good evening. 136 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,960 It's not 'obrigado'. It's 'obrigadoe'. 137 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,840 'Doe'. 'Obrigadoe'. 138 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,160 The O is always an 'oe'. Usually, anyway. 139 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,560 You have Portuguese roots. - Yes, that's right. 140 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,160 Let me explain. My mother is Portuguese. 141 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,320 She came to Ghent to study. She met my father 142 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,720 and, well, one thing led to another. 143 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,360 I'm basically half Portuguese. 144 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,520 Do you still go back often? - All the time. 145 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,560 I spent all my holidays there as a kid. 146 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,840 I also went to school there for a year. 147 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,800 For me it's my second home, my motherland. 148 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,240 What did you think when you heard 'De Mol' was in Portugal this year? 149 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,080 I thought it was amazing. What I found strange 150 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,720 was that they hadn't been to Portugal before. 151 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,760 It's so close by and so varied. 152 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,920 There's so much possible there that I thought: finally. 153 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,400 Such a great country, it's about time. 154 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,560 What regions should they definitely have visited? 155 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,920 I'm most into beaches. I'm obsessed 156 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,560 when it comes to beaches. I lie on the beach there all summer long. 157 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,400 First like this, then like that. 158 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,600 We have a map of Portugal that also makes something clear. 159 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,120 Those are roughly the regions we visited. 160 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,080 I can see the north, I'm less familiar with that. 161 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,160 My mother lives in the south, about an hour below Lisbon. 162 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,760 That's the area I know best, Lisbon. 163 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,760 I can also see Évora, a very old, authentic city. 164 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,440 It's phenomenal. 165 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,080 Enough chatting. Maybe we should do what we're actually here for. 166 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,560 People want to know who the candidates are this season. 167 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,240 How are we going to do this today? 168 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,560 There's something going on with the candidate group. 169 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,040 There are some overlaps in terms of age. 170 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,520 So I've divided them into three groups 171 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,240 based on their age. 172 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,160 There are three who are exactly the same age, 26. 173 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,000 So actually quite young. 174 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:36,080 There are three who are fifty-somethings, just barely, barely fifty. 175 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,080 Amazing, I can already hear people saying. Rightfully so. 176 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,640 Wisdom and age. 177 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,400 Then a remaining category, the thirties and forties. 178 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,440 That's four of them. 179 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,760 We'll introduce them in those categories. 180 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,920 I suggest Imane and Timon decide which category we start with. 181 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,320 Go ahead, which category first. 182 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,920 I already heard: the fifty-somethings, amazing. 183 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,320 So let's start with the fifty-somethings. 184 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,480 All right, great. Then I'd love to introduce you 185 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,000 to Karla, a VAT specialist from Bonheiden. 186 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,760 To Isabel, a banker from Westmalle. 187 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,520 And first to Vincent, a software developer from Grimbergen. 188 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,960 I could also introduce them a bit more concisely as: 189 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,240 tsjip-tjsap, Sushi King and camel foot. 190 00:09:28,250 --> 00:09:30,750 I once sang, a long time ago. 191 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 I wrecked my voice from singing. I had nodules and had surgery. 192 00:09:34,250 --> 00:09:36,750 I had to do a few weeks of speech therapy. 193 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,250 I'm standing there and the first thing she asks me is: 194 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:45,750 could you sculpt or act out what you'd like your voice to look like. 195 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,500 I was like: come on, seriously? 196 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:51,750 I keep a straight face and I say... 197 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,750 Something about openness. 198 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,500 At a certain point she stands in front of me, kneels down, 199 00:09:57,750 --> 00:10:02,750 grabs both my feet and shouts twice, I kid you not: 200 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,750 Camel feet, camel feet. 201 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,250 I'm standing there on my bare feet and she shouts it twice: Camel feet. 202 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:14,000 She says at a certain point: Now I want you to do that to me too. 203 00:10:14,250 --> 00:10:17,750 I did that. I knelt down in front of that woman. 204 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,250 I said: Camel feet, camel... 205 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,250 True story, true story. 206 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,750 I am the best driver in the family. 207 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:34,750 I can park blindfolded. 208 00:10:34,750 --> 00:10:36,750 When I sit next to Dirk, I think... 209 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,250 He needs four goes left, right, and still can't get it in straight. 210 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,000 For me it's one-two done and I'm in. 211 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,500 Really good. - Even as a little girl, 212 00:10:45,750 --> 00:10:50,250 my dad taught me to drive. It was like: hop, bam, done. 213 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:51,750 Always been good at it. 214 00:10:51,750 --> 00:10:54,500 But now I've really become a proper little old granny. 215 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:58,500 Except when I get to drive Dirk's Tesla. 216 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:02,000 That's just a rush. Zip... 217 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:05,000 Then that thing just shoots forward. 218 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 My daughter can't handle it: mama. Just like that. 219 00:11:15,750 --> 00:11:17,500 Are you a good...? - No. 220 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:20,000 A kitchen princess, I'll put it that way. - No. No. 221 00:11:20,250 --> 00:11:24,250 I really don't like cooking. I really don't enjoy it. 222 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:27,750 I don't like grocery shopping. I'd rather always go to a restaurant. 223 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 We don't do that. But I really don't like it. 224 00:11:30,250 --> 00:11:34,250 All that prep and being creative: what are we having? It's never right anyway. 225 00:11:34,250 --> 00:11:39,750 And baking, Isabel? I mean: cakes, muffins, cookies. No? 226 00:11:39,750 --> 00:11:42,000 No, what a hassle. 227 00:11:42,750 --> 00:11:45,500 It's so much work, baking a cake. 228 00:11:46,250 --> 00:11:48,750 I'll go sit outside in a little chair with a book. 229 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 And I'll call Sushi King. 230 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,840 Three fifty-somethings: Karla, Isabel and Vincent. 231 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,720 Do you have anything more to say about those three? 232 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,880 Yes, because I can see my friends already diligently writing in their mole notebooks. 233 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,440 Karla lives in Bonheiden, VAT specialist. 234 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,160 Dirk has a Tesla, now we know that too. 235 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,880 She lives there with her daughter, three stepchildren 236 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,280 and seventeen land tortoises. 237 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,320 There you go, not sixteen, not eighteen. That's very random. 238 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,560 It is random, but it is the truth. 239 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,680 Isabel from Westmalle runs two bank branches, 240 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,280 lives there with her three children 241 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,960 and there are also quite a few cats in that household. 242 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,840 Doesn't like cooking, which I think is fairly obvious. 243 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,640 Vincent, software developer, married, two kids, in Grimbergen 244 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,480 and he has a past in the TV world. 245 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,440 Fortunately he turned his life around and started something new. 246 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,400 He loves cheese fondue and singing. 247 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:45,200 And sauna visits. 248 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,040 You want random info, I deliver. - I love the random info. 249 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,720 I can see Timon and Imane already writing things down seriously. 250 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,760 First impression? - I put a heart next to Karla. 251 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,560 Me too, me too. Look, me too. 252 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,360 I thought she gave off really nice mom vibes. 253 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,720 Timon. - I think Vincent looks young. 254 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,480 He doesn't look 51. That's already mole behavior. 255 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,040 He's already lied about his age. 256 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,760 Quite notable, three fifty-somethings in this year's group. 257 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,680 Last year it was different, there was one fifty-something, Hilde. 258 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,280 Good evening. 259 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,320 Three fifty-somethings this year. 260 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,720 Do you think: I would have loved that, last year. 261 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,640 This just makes me very content and happy. 262 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:37,040 I'm so happy with all this richness around me. 263 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,160 How was it for you among all the young ones? 264 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,240 I never felt like the oldest, so... 265 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,800 Did you have to prepare physically for 'De Mol'? 266 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,440 I started jogging six weeks before, together with my daughter. 267 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,840 So I made it to week six of the Evy program. 268 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,400 Start to Run. - Start to Run, yeah. 269 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,160 Week six, how far is that, 200 meters? 270 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:05,440 We're not asking that. - That's basically just stopping the walking. 271 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,200 But dedication, Hilde, I think that's really great. 272 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,600 The next group then. Maybe the 26-year-olds. 273 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,200 Intriguing too. Gilles, tell us. - Three 26-year-olds. 274 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,280 I'd love to introduce you to my newest 26-year-old friends. 275 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,320 They come from all corners. 276 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,440 Maïté, born in India, but now lives in Ghent, 277 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,160 with a Ghent accent. 278 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,160 Then there's Maxim, also 26, who comes from an even more exotic background, 279 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,960 Gullegem, West Flanders. 280 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,080 Complete with the matching accent. 281 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,880 Then we'll first take a look at Julie from Kapellen near Antwerp. 282 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,440 Julie is a young woman with quite a few nicknames 283 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,120 and one big hobby. 284 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I'm a horse girl. I love that horse, 285 00:14:53,250 --> 00:14:55,250 it's not that I'm ashamed of it. 286 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:58,750 But I don't want people to think that I do two little braids at night, 287 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,250 put on a pink riding hat and go to that horse with a My Little Pony schoolbag, 288 00:15:03,750 --> 00:15:05,750 because that's definitely not the case. 289 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:09,500 I was born and I basically had two nicknames: 290 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:11,750 Boulet and Spruitje. 291 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,250 They used to think I had a big round head. 292 00:15:14,250 --> 00:15:18,250 Honestly, it's really not that bad. I've seen the photos too. 293 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:21,500 I'm no more of a chubby baby than any other baby. 294 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:26,500 My friends just call me Jul or something, or Julien. 295 00:15:26,750 --> 00:15:28,000 Julien, when I've been drinking. 296 00:15:28,250 --> 00:15:33,750 A "Julienke" was for example: you could buy little holders for your pints. 297 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,250 I had bought one and a friend said: I'm going to put that beer glass in 298 00:15:38,250 --> 00:15:40,500 and pour it from my mouth into your mouth. 299 00:15:40,750 --> 00:15:42,750 Just open up, mouth open. 300 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,250 She dumps it all over my stomach. There's a video of it. 301 00:15:46,750 --> 00:15:49,250 And sending that to my parents too. 302 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:51,500 That's doing a "Julienke", just drunk-texting: 303 00:15:51,750 --> 00:15:54,000 this is why my clothes are always so dirty. 304 00:15:54,250 --> 00:15:57,500 I saw those two blue WhatsApp ticks 305 00:15:57,750 --> 00:16:00,000 and they didn't even respond. They saw something. 306 00:16:06,250 --> 00:16:08,250 After secondary school.. 307 00:16:08,250 --> 00:16:12,500 No, after college I went to work in hospitality, so I could travel a lot. 308 00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:15,750 I had the feeling: I don't want to settle down yet. 309 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,500 Or I didn't feel ready for a serious job. 310 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,750 Not that hospitality isn't serious. 311 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,750 Then I worked until I had enough money to go travelling. 312 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:28,250 For two years I lived like that. 313 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:31,750 Then I went travelling for six months. And then my parents said: 314 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,500 Now you have to get serious. So now I work for the city. 315 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,750 I have an older brother, an older sister. 316 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,500 My parents are bakers. 317 00:16:48,250 --> 00:16:50,500 I'm the spoiled one of the family. 318 00:16:50,750 --> 00:16:54,500 I think personality-wise I'm a chaotic person. 319 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:58,750 Someone who's very motivated and always very enthusiastic. Someone who... 320 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,750 If I ran into myself, I'd spend a whole evening at a café with myself, 321 00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:07,000 just sitting across from each other without boring myself. 322 00:17:07,250 --> 00:17:12,250 When I was young, they always asked: What do you want to be? 323 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:15,750 Some people say astronaut or professional footballer. 324 00:17:15,750 --> 00:17:20,000 Plumber, that appealed to me. 325 00:17:20,250 --> 00:17:24,000 Mario Bros, they were two plumbers too, Mario and Luigi. 326 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:26,250 So that did inspire me. 327 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,750 I don't want that anymore, but it seemed like something nice to be. 328 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 That pays well. - That pays well, I think. 329 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,000 You can fiddle the books a bit too, you know. 330 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,040 Three 26-year-olds: Julie, Maïté and Maxim. 331 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,920 Gilles, any more info on these three? 332 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,840 Definitely, random info. Julie or Spruitje, Jul or Julien or Boulet, 333 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,240 marketer in the pharma sector. Horse girl. 334 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,480 She describes herself as loud and enthusiastic. 335 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,200 A big mystery is that she says she supports 336 00:17:57,360 --> 00:17:59,280 both Antwerp and Beerschot. 337 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,400 Which for Antwerp people and far beyond... 338 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,160 I'm just putting it out there. 339 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,840 You brought her along? You brought a Beerschot fan? 340 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,680 I don't quite understand it either, but that's a choice she made. 341 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,480 Maïté was born in the south of India. 342 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,440 She has very diverse hobbies. 343 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,560 She took a baking course, has a small catering business, 344 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,520 poses for art students, she drums 345 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,720 and she now works as a civic integration officer 346 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,920 to help other newcomers find their way in our country. 347 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:36,400 Maxim has the same barber as Timon, looking at it now. 348 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,840 He's a baker's son. He's crazy about éclairs, understandable. 349 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,680 He's a digital designer 350 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,400 and has watched 'Game of Thrones' six times. 351 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,640 The full series, including that terrible last season. 352 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,640 Make of that what you will. 353 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,480 I think now a hundred percent of the residents of Gullegem 354 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,800 have been a candidate on 'De Mol'. 355 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,960 What I remember is that he'd enjoy going out for a drink with himself. 356 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,920 He seems like a great guy to me. I immediately put a question mark next to him. 357 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,680 With smooth talkers you trust too quickly. 358 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,080 He also wanted to start cutting corners as a plumber. 359 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,040 And I think: there's something off there. 360 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,040 I'm mainly wondering what a 'boulet head' is. 361 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,160 A very round head. - A round head. 362 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,000 Like a meatball. Have you never ordered a boulet at the chip shop? 363 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,040 No, chicken drumsticks on a stick. 364 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,520 That's what I always order. - It would be very strange 365 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,160 if your head looked like that. 366 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,760 Do you also have alter egos, like Julie apparently? 367 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,240 No, not really. 368 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,200 But in my student days when I went out 369 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,960 and I'd had just a tiny drop of alcohol, 370 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,920 I become a massive girl's girl. 371 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,640 Then I start defending women I don't even know, 372 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,560 who I just suspect might be getting bothered. 373 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,320 Sometimes they're just having a conversation with a man. 374 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,520 Then it's not necessary. But hey, that's my alter ego. 375 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,040 In a moment Gilles will introduce the other candidates to us 376 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,000 and he also has exclusive footage for us. 377 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,600 Timon is in the meantime going to buy a round. 378 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,680 He knows now too, he's going to do it. 379 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,720 We'll be right back for part 2 of 'Café De Mol'. See you shortly. 380 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:29,540 Welcome back to 'Café De Mol'. 381 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:33,300 I'm still here with Imane, Timon and Gilles De Coster. 382 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:37,540 Today we're getting to know the ten candidates of this season of 'De Mol'. 383 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,540 Gilles, we've had the fifty-somethings, the 26-year-olds. 384 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:44,000 Then all that's left are the leftovers. 385 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,880 That's not the most respectful way to announce it. 386 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,480 Let's say, people who are between 26 and 50. 387 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,080 That's a nicer description. 388 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,200 I'd love to introduce you to Dries, IT manager from the Kempen, 389 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,000 but he now lives somewhere else. 390 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,680 He sat in class with an absolute world star. 391 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,680 Then we go... Yes, yes. 392 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,680 Then there's Kristof, our only forty-something. 393 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,480 Bar owner in Lier. 394 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,720 Then there's Wout, gardener from Zemst near Mechelen. 395 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,720 You'll see, he's a man who loves a plan. 396 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,120 We start with Abigail, who has roots in Ghana. 397 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,120 She lived in China and has now moved to a real world city: 398 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,600 Lommel. 399 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,250 I'm someone who enjoys life, so I love doing lots of things: 400 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,750 good food, shopping, going on holiday. 401 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,250 I do like to treat myself sometimes. 402 00:21:43,750 --> 00:21:47,500 I don't show it either. I already take the tags off. 403 00:21:48,250 --> 00:21:52,750 Especially if it's a dress that cost a lot, for example. 404 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:56,750 My husband can ask: Is that new? 405 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 I've gotten good at saying: No, I've already worn that before. 406 00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:03,000 We lived in China for a year. 407 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I could manage the basics there: telling the taxi driver where I needed to go. 408 00:22:12,750 --> 00:22:16,250 I hope it still sounds roughly like this, but I think it does. 409 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,500 I always managed to get where I needed to go, so I think it was right. 410 00:22:26,750 --> 00:22:32,000 I've had a hospitality business in Lier for twelve years now. 411 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:37,750 't Kafaat, it's a kind of brown pub in the city centre. 412 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,750 What kind of boss are you? 413 00:22:40,750 --> 00:22:42,250 A bad one, I think. 414 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:47,500 Well.. Good for the staff maybe, but I'm too soft, I think. 415 00:22:47,750 --> 00:22:50,000 I think I'm also a bit... 416 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:54,500 I don't think so — I'm pretty sure I'm conflict-avoidant. 417 00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:58,000 So I tend to try to avoid conflicts. 418 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Because of that I maybe let things slide when I should be firmer. 419 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,750 I often hear that I look younger than I am. 420 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Now I'm starting to find my first grey hairs. 421 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,250 I started pulling them out, but I can't keep up anymore. 422 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,000 But that's fine too. I'm forty. You can't avoid it. 423 00:23:26,250 --> 00:23:28,750 Today? Yeah, I went this morning and haven't been since. 424 00:23:28,750 --> 00:23:31,250 I have been drinking enough water. It's necessary. 425 00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:35,500 In secondary school I basically never went to the toilet. 426 00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:37,500 The number of times in secondary school that I went to the toilet, 427 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:40,500 I can count on one hand. It's not that I didn't want to. 428 00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:44,250 There were toilets, of course. But it just never happened. 429 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:46,750 I don't know. I just never needed to go. 430 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 It was in the morning before I went to school and in the evening when I got home. 431 00:23:50,250 --> 00:23:53,750 You went to school with Wout van Aert? - In the same class, even. 432 00:23:53,750 --> 00:23:57,250 He studied, believe it or not, applied computer science. 433 00:23:57,250 --> 00:24:01,000 I think I once skipped a class to help him convert his Facebook page... 434 00:24:01,250 --> 00:24:04,000 or his Facebook profile into a Facebook page. 435 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,250 He was getting random friend requests from people he didn't know at all. 436 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,500 Then we did that at lunchtime... Or we even skipped a class for it. 437 00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:20,250 Neither of us really irons. 438 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,500 We do have a steamer. 439 00:24:23,250 --> 00:24:25,500 But we've got a really good method for... 440 00:24:25,750 --> 00:24:30,000 We beat our clothes completely smooth. 441 00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:33,000 With hitting? - Yeah, when they come out of the washing machine, 442 00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:35,750 you have to beat them hard in the air. 443 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,500 Then you have to hang them up nicely. We always do it together. 444 00:24:38,750 --> 00:24:40,000 I beat them and she hangs them up. 445 00:24:40,250 --> 00:24:43,250 The neighbours must sometimes think: what are they up to over there? 446 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:45,250 That works a treat. 447 00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:47,750 I've discovered that I now like 448 00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:50,000 cooking HelloFresh-style meals. 449 00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:52,750 Because that's a plan I have to follow and I love that. 450 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,250 I love Ikea too. That's also just following a plan. 451 00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:58,250 Putting a wardrobe together, amazing. 452 00:24:58,750 --> 00:25:00,500 I love that. I've even thought about: 453 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:04,500 maybe I should make a business out of going to people's homes to build Ikea wardrobes. 454 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:09,260 Abigail, Dries, Kristof and Wout. 455 00:25:09,420 --> 00:25:13,060 Quite a group with interesting business ideas. 456 00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:16,180 Do you have more to tell us about these four? 457 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:18,660 Abigail, 33, works in childcare. 458 00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:21,300 Which is handy when you're traveling with rowdy children, 459 00:25:21,460 --> 00:25:23,540 like with us, so she has that experience. 460 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:25,580 She's married, has two children 461 00:25:25,740 --> 00:25:28,140 and she represents Limburg in this group. 462 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:32,540 Dries is a son of the Kempen, but now lives in Boortmeerbeek, 463 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:33,980 after having also lived in Bruges. 464 00:25:34,140 --> 00:25:35,900 So he managed the Facebook profile page thing 465 00:25:36,060 --> 00:25:39,340 for Wout van Aert. - Still something to put on your CV. 466 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:42,100 Now goes to the toilet like a normal person. I think. 467 00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:45,100 Kristof has a café in Lier, 't Kafaat. 468 00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:47,220 Everyone from Lier, go check it out. 469 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:50,740 He has a girlfriend. I don't quite understand what he has against grey hair. 470 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:54,460 I'm glad you don't pull yours out, otherwise... 471 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,620 That would be sad. - Then you'd be Philippe Geubels. 472 00:25:56,780 --> 00:25:58,060 I'd be busy forever. 473 00:25:58,220 --> 00:26:01,540 Wout who loves Ikea cabinets doesn't work for Ikea yet, 474 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:04,140 but for the Vrijbroekpark in Mechelen. He's a gardener, 475 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,660 administrative worker and also a DJ and videographer. 476 00:26:08,020 --> 00:26:11,340 And he beats his clothes. I'd never heard of that. 477 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:13,940 Neither had I. Apparently it works. 478 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:16,020 Do you have any experience with beating clothes? 479 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:19,260 No, but I don't iron either, so it might be a good idea 480 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:21,420 to try it. - But you don't beat them either. 481 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:24,340 No, no. - You just put them away. 482 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,780 I just stick them in the wardrobe and see what happens. 483 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:30,740 That idea about Ikea cabinets, I've had that thought too. 484 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,060 I love putting Ikea cabinets together. 485 00:26:34,220 --> 00:26:36,700 I also ask everyone who moves: 486 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:38,900 If you go to Ikea, can I come along? 487 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,900 And can I put your cabinets together? 488 00:26:41,180 --> 00:26:44,420 Imane, that's a disorder. You need to be careful with that. 489 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,420 I really love it, so I find it crazy 490 00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:49,060 that there's someone else with the same love for it. 491 00:26:49,220 --> 00:26:51,900 Anything else that stuck with you? - I'm going to say something smart. 492 00:26:52,060 --> 00:26:54,900 Here it comes. Kristof says he's conflict-avoidant. 493 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,940 I wrote that down too. - That's going to be tough 494 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:00,780 when there are exemption questions up for grabs. 495 00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:04,340 Now he introduces himself as an honest person. 496 00:27:04,540 --> 00:27:06,300 We'll see about that. 497 00:27:06,660 --> 00:27:09,500 Dries was in class with Wout van Aert. 498 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:11,300 Where did we see him today, Gilles? 499 00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:14,060 He was on the same episode of 'De Slimste Mens' as Imane. 500 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,420 You have to pay attention to everything. - Yes, that's true. 501 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:20,540 Always looking for extra value, Gilles De Coster. 502 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:22,540 That's going to help with the searching. 503 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:25,060 We've seen them all, all the candidates. 504 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:27,060 One of them is the mole. 505 00:27:27,220 --> 00:27:29,940 Maybe time to ask the finalists from last year. 506 00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:32,540 What does your gut say about these ten? 507 00:27:32,740 --> 00:27:34,900 Tough. - I would love it 508 00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:38,280 if a fifty-something is the mole. - We said that too. 509 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,780 There are three fifty-somethings, so we think: 510 00:27:40,940 --> 00:27:43,540 maybe it could be someone... 511 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,380 Up to now I think I was the oldest mole ever 512 00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:47,380 and I don't feel old at all. 513 00:27:48,380 --> 00:27:51,700 Alexy, you're a specialist. You won last season. 514 00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:54,140 What does your gut say? - I've already decided 515 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:57,780 that I have nothing more to prove, so I'm going to go with tunnel vision. 516 00:27:57,940 --> 00:28:02,060 Kristof, I trusted him straight away, that's dangerous. 517 00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:03,780 I'm going with Kristof. 518 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:06,540 There's someone who does have something to prove here, Pedro. 519 00:28:08,660 --> 00:28:12,180 Your gut feeling might be the most interesting of everyone's. 520 00:28:13,580 --> 00:28:15,260 What does yours say? 521 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:19,100 I'm going to have to work out a strategy, I think. 522 00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:23,620 Maxim. - Hilde, did you see anything? 523 00:28:24,020 --> 00:28:25,260 Something suspicious? 524 00:28:25,420 --> 00:28:27,380 My gut also says Maxim. 525 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:30,220 We don't know much yet, almost nothing at all. 526 00:28:30,820 --> 00:28:33,220 Still, everyone in the café can pick their first suspect. 527 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:36,700 You all have a QR code on your table. 528 00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:39,980 Get your phone out, scan the QR code 529 00:28:39,980 --> 00:28:42,740 and then you can follow your gut feeling 530 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:45,740 and pick your first prime suspect, 531 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,380 even before we've seen a single second of the season. 532 00:28:52,220 --> 00:28:53,940 Imane, who did you vote for? 533 00:28:54,380 --> 00:28:56,380 I voted for Maïté. 534 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,060 She's worked in hospitality, she's traveled a lot. 535 00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:02,140 I just think: she reads people well 536 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:06,220 and she might be able to wrap everyone around her finger. I don't know. 537 00:29:06,380 --> 00:29:08,540 It's a guess. - Of course, Timon? 538 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:10,940 I voted for Isabel. - Why? 539 00:29:11,380 --> 00:29:13,180 Why? 540 00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:16,580 I had no basis for it. - I just went 541 00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:18,700 with my gut. - Okay, gut feeling. 542 00:29:18,860 --> 00:29:22,060 Let's see what the gut feeling of our whole café is. 543 00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:28,340 Vincent with clear numbers, 22 percent. 544 00:29:29,860 --> 00:29:33,500 Gilles, we've seen everyone. How was the group this year? 545 00:29:33,660 --> 00:29:37,740 Good. Of course at least as fun, attractive 546 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:39,300 and athletic as last year's. 547 00:29:39,460 --> 00:29:40,980 At least. - At least. 548 00:29:41,140 --> 00:29:44,540 Really fun, enthusiastic. They were all happy with Portugal. Rightly so. 549 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,860 We'll get to know them every Sunday from now on in 'De Mol'. 550 00:29:48,020 --> 00:29:50,980 But there's something extra this year. We're doing a behind the scenes again. 551 00:29:51,340 --> 00:29:54,980 We have the great Jan De Troij, one of our editors, 552 00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:58,380 given a camera. He didn't turn it off for three weeks. 553 00:29:58,580 --> 00:30:01,300 He's going to put a mini-report on the Play app every episode, 554 00:30:01,460 --> 00:30:04,140 about everything that happens with the candidates between challenges. 555 00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:07,820 He also made one for this 'Café De Mol', 556 00:30:07,980 --> 00:30:09,580 specifically the candidates' departure. 557 00:30:09,740 --> 00:30:13,020 The day they arrive at Zaventem unsuspecting, 558 00:30:13,180 --> 00:30:15,940 not knowing where the trip is going, 559 00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:18,820 all kept apart from each other and ready to depart. 560 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,500 One by one the candidates arrive at Brussels Airport. 561 00:30:26,750 --> 00:30:29,000 I'll just take this off. 562 00:30:29,250 --> 00:30:31,500 How are you? Excited for the trip? 563 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,000 Yes! - Are you nervous? 564 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:37,000 The stress is starting to kick in now. The last few days were fine, 565 00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:40,500 but this morning when I woke up, it was like: it's really happening. 566 00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:44,750 I was very calm until I got here and couldn't find the way. 567 00:30:45,250 --> 00:30:46,750 But now I'm fine. 568 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,250 I just had tiramisu for breakfast that my sweetheart had bought me. 569 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,500 So now I'm pretty relaxed. 570 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:54,750 Do you have any idea where we're going? 571 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:58,500 No idea at all. I think we might be staying in Belgium. 572 00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:00,750 You have no idea where we're going? - None at all. 573 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,250 I'll give you a hint. I'll let you hear the language of the country we're going to. 574 00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:06,500 Okay. 575 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,250 Você vai para Portugal. 576 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,000 What do you think? 577 00:31:11,250 --> 00:31:13,500 Portugal. - Wow, crazy, you speak that. 578 00:31:13,750 --> 00:31:16,750 Oh, to Portugal. That's nice, that's nice. 579 00:31:18,750 --> 00:31:22,500 The candidates all travel separately and are not allowed to talk to anyone. 580 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,500 They don't yet know who the other candidates are, 581 00:31:25,750 --> 00:31:29,250 because the idea is that they'll only meet each other for the first time in Portugal. 582 00:31:33,750 --> 00:31:36,250 Welcome on the flight to Porto. - Thank you. 583 00:31:45,250 --> 00:31:49,000 Once they arrive in Portugal, they're blindfolded onto the bus. 584 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:52,000 I've got you. 585 00:31:52,250 --> 00:31:54,500 I trust you blindly. - Okay, that's really good. 586 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,000 They're transported blindfolded one last time 587 00:31:57,250 --> 00:31:59,750 to the island where the opening challenge will take place. 588 00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:07,380 Jan Vertonghen is coming along too. - No. 589 00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:10,740 It's a strange coincidence that he happened to be walking around there that day. 590 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,660 The only Jan who's coming along is the Jan who makes this every week. 591 00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:17,820 A bit longer even, this is a taste of what's to come on 'Café De Mol'. 592 00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:21,660 From next week with episode 1 you'll get to see a lot more. 593 00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:24,020 Really fun. - Michèle, I saw you react straight away 594 00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:26,420 when everyone arrived at the airport and got on the bus. 595 00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:29,620 So relatable. Was it Maxim who said: I'm already lost. 596 00:32:29,780 --> 00:32:31,460 That's very relatable. 597 00:32:31,620 --> 00:32:34,380 I was more relaxed once I'd arrived. 598 00:32:34,580 --> 00:32:37,300 At departure I was really scared I was going to miss the plane. 599 00:32:37,460 --> 00:32:40,020 And I sat next to Els on the plane. How crazy is that. 600 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,100 Sarah, for you as the mole, how was that? 601 00:32:43,260 --> 00:32:46,700 You realize: Oh my God, we're leaving. What are we going to experience? 602 00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:48,380 That journey was really... 603 00:32:48,540 --> 00:32:50,940 Seeing this again, and the blindfolds on day 1 604 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:54,980 and being guided to the location. It all comes flooding back. 605 00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:56,700 Yeah, it all comes back. 606 00:32:56,860 --> 00:32:58,940 Behind-the-scenes footage, that's really cool, of course. 607 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,180 But it's all about the real deal. From next Sunday 608 00:33:02,340 --> 00:33:05,500 it's 'De Mol' every week again. You can watch it on Play 609 00:33:05,660 --> 00:33:07,660 and of course there's also 'Café De Mol' every week. 610 00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:10,340 But there are also the 'De Mol' Watch Parties. 611 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,180 At Play Zuid you can watch 612 00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:14,340 the episodes of 'De Mol' on a big screen 613 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:18,100 together with Daphne Agten and fellow 'De Mol' fans. 614 00:33:18,340 --> 00:33:21,020 There's popcorn and you can also get a photo with the eliminated contestant, 615 00:33:21,180 --> 00:33:24,020 because they'll drop by here every week in 'Café De Mol'. 616 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:26,620 Want tickets? Just say the word. 617 00:33:26,780 --> 00:33:29,220 Or in this case a QR code. You can scan it 618 00:33:29,220 --> 00:33:32,060 and come to the 'De Mol' Watch Parties. 619 00:33:32,220 --> 00:33:34,900 Gilles, we've discussed a lot. - Absolutely. 620 00:33:35,060 --> 00:33:36,540 One important thing we haven't. 621 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:39,740 What were you doing at that Portuguese tailor's? 622 00:33:40,220 --> 00:33:42,700 You saw it, having a suit made. 623 00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:44,780 Having a suit made. Well, two suits actually. 624 00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:46,940 We considered it, a red latex suit, 625 00:33:47,180 --> 00:33:50,500 but that turned out to be difficult. The man wouldn't make it. 626 00:33:50,660 --> 00:33:54,300 Yes, two suits. Two trailers have already dropped. 627 00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:57,500 For the people who haven't seen them yet, a highlights reel. 628 00:33:58,250 --> 00:34:02,000 - Moledo, Portugal - 629 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,250 Well done. - Thank you. 630 00:34:07,250 --> 00:34:11,500 It's not for me. It's for a special friend. 631 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:20,000 What do you think of it yourself? 632 00:34:22,250 --> 00:34:24,500 A perfect fit. - Perfect. 633 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,250 The others won't know what hit them. 634 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,750 Especially not combined 635 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000 with her. 636 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:48,420 Timon and Imane. - I get goosebumps. 637 00:34:48,580 --> 00:34:50,500 What are they trying to make us believe 638 00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:52,740 with those two suits? 639 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,500 I actually think it's like the orange screens were. 640 00:34:56,660 --> 00:34:59,260 That it's only something for the first episode. 641 00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:02,140 I'm not going to tell you. 642 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,100 That's another week of waiting, Imane. 643 00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:06,180 Timon, what's your idea? 644 00:35:06,340 --> 00:35:07,620 You'd think: two moles. 645 00:35:07,780 --> 00:35:10,180 But you once said it would never happen. 646 00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:13,340 I say a lot. You've noticed that tonight. 647 00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:16,820 That's true. I don't know how I'd feel about that. 648 00:35:17,020 --> 00:35:19,540 I can't handle it. It's too exciting again. 649 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:22,340 We also discussed it on the morning show 650 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:25,180 and one option was also 651 00:35:25,340 --> 00:35:28,780 that there would be a local helper somewhere. 652 00:35:28,940 --> 00:35:33,140 That that woman is someone undercover in Portugal 653 00:35:33,380 --> 00:35:36,300 who helps with sabotaging, but in the background. 654 00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:39,140 He really does mean it's a woman. 655 00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:41,860 Right? - You saw it though. 656 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:45,500 I'm not adding anything to that. - Sometimes you don't need to look far. 657 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:47,620 Two trailers filmed in Moledo. 658 00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:51,300 It's right near where we'll start this series. 659 00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:55,540 If there's a village called Moledo there, that's a nice bonus. 660 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:58,340 The mole hunters online will also see that the suit is meant 661 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,620 for someone who is 1.84 meters. - I don't know what you do with that. 662 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:03,980 I'm 1.94 meters, so it's not for me. 663 00:36:04,180 --> 00:36:06,580 That's clear. - I also know you're not going to say anything. 664 00:36:06,740 --> 00:36:08,780 But you've got something else. - I can show something. 665 00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:11,300 That's fun. - We've had two trailers. 666 00:36:11,460 --> 00:36:12,860 There's a third one. 667 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:16,460 These are the last images there will be before we start 668 00:36:16,660 --> 00:36:18,100 with episode 1. 669 00:36:18,260 --> 00:36:19,700 Everyone knows the candidates now, 670 00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:22,180 and here they are in full glory and in action. 671 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Dear friends. 672 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,750 Glad to see you. 673 00:36:32,750 --> 00:36:34,500 Welcome to Portugal. 674 00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,500 Here we are at last. 675 00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:42,000 What happens here today 676 00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:46,500 will determine the entire rest of the trip. 677 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:49,750 Fuck. 678 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,250 You're stuck on this island, 679 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,250 but how many of you will make it 680 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:00,500 to the mainland? 681 00:37:07,660 --> 00:37:10,100 Sarah, Alexy, Michèle. 682 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,620 We had a warm container, they're definitely stuck. 683 00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:16,420 Yeah, and that stress. How many of you make it... 684 00:37:16,580 --> 00:37:19,740 The stress alone is terrible and then... 685 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:23,780 They're in shock. That's a good sign. 686 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:26,460 Pedro, what do you think? You can say it in Portuguese. 687 00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:30,300 Eles foderam-nos outra vez. 688 00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:32,180 And that means? 689 00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:35,620 To put it politely: they've got us by the short and curlies again. 690 00:37:35,820 --> 00:37:37,380 Of course. 691 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:39,820 More than anything, it just needs to start again. 692 00:37:39,980 --> 00:37:43,420 I've almost run out of patience. - That's very positive in this case. 693 00:37:43,580 --> 00:37:45,580 Luckily it all starts next week. 694 00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:48,260 That's when the first episode of this season of 'De Mol' airs. 695 00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:51,660 Gilles, big thanks for coming to introduce the candidates. 696 00:37:51,820 --> 00:37:53,980 Everyone in the café, thank you for being here. 697 00:37:54,140 --> 00:37:56,780 Timon, Imane, you'll be here next week too. 698 00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:58,700 Please take your notebook with you. 699 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,900 Next week it's finally really happening. 700 00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:02,820 Then the new season of 'De Mol' starts 701 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:04,820 and 'Café De Mol' will be back alongside it of course. 702 00:38:04,980 --> 00:38:06,780 Thanks for watching. See you Sunday.