Curiosities and celebrities: – NRK wanted the current agreement to be modified in a way that imposes strong restrictions on our other business activities. I have no desire or opportunity to close the rest of my business to save NRK’s ​​reputation, and so we feel compelled to end the collaboration, says Sophie Elise in a Press release Thursday evening.

– We refused other more lucrative offers to collaborate with NRK, and we do not regret it. It has been instructive and rewarding to work with such a large and professional organization, and we were ready to develop the concept further, says Fetisha Williams.

The channel says commercial ties with both profiles are too extensive to combine with the channel’s ongoing podcast production. NRK stresses that the agreement concluded last autumn on the podcast “Sophie and Fetisha” is different from other agreements that NRK has with providers outside the Channel in that they have been able to carry out their commercial activities in parallel.

– We wanted to try something completely new and create something with one of Norway’s biggest influencers. In the wake of recent debates, NRK has opted to go through all aspects of the collaboration, including the deal, says the broadcast manager.

– With Sophie and Fetisha’s podcast, we wanted to create a breathing space where he was inside to be entertaining and unfiltered, and at the same time address the main challenges that many young people face. I would like to thank Sophie Elise and Fetisha for their cooperation and wish them good luck for the future,” said Charlo Halvorsen, Acting Director Marienlystdivisionen at NRK.

– Besides the fact that it was educational, it was also a lot of fun. Sophie Elise and I are therefore going to continue the podcast adventure together. We look forward to that, says Williams.

NRK recently went through the collaboration on the podcast. It came after Sofie Steen Isachsen (28), known as Sophie Elise, posted and then deleted a photo of herself and another influencer holding a bag containing something white. We don’t know what was in the bag.

There, Fetisha Williams and Sophie Elise write that they are proud of the concept they have developed in collaboration with NRK, and that they have been pleased with the success of the series in age groups that NRK otherwise struggles to reach. capture.

Later Thursday evening confirmed broadcasting director Vibeke Fürst Haugen. that the collaboration is over.

– We have now concluded that cooperation with actors with such extensive ties and business activity is incompatible with the continued production of year-round podcasts for NRK. This is an error that we are in the process of correcting, continues Fürst Haugen.

Sophie Elise and Fetisha Williams further say that there will always be podcasts, but it’s unclear who the collaborators will be, or where they will be published.