Henk van der Meijden

Henk van der Meijden (born 26 June 1937, in The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch journalist and producer of theater and circus acts. Known as the "godfather" of Dutch gossip journalism, A television program, TV Privé, was soon aired by TROS. He retired as Privé's editor in chief in 1997, and in 2002 he retired from De Telegraaf, to be succeeded by Wilma Nanninga.

Since 1966 van der Meijden has been active as a producer of theater and entertainment, and in the 1970s began bringing international circus acts to the Netherlands. With Joop van den Ende and Benoit Wesley he was co-owner of the Circustheater in Scheveningen in the early 1990s.