Wie is de Mol? (Dutch TV series)

Wie is de Mol? (English: Who is the Mole?) is a Dutch adventure reality competition show. It is based on the Belgian show De Mol, the original version of the format created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT.

Wie is de Mol?
Genre	Reality competition
Based on	De Mol by Michiel Devlieger Bart de Pauw Tom Lenaerts Michel Vanhove
Presented by	Angela Groothuizen Karel van de Graaf [nl] Pieter Jan Hagens Art Rooijakkers Rik van de Westelaken Junior seasons Sipke Jan Bousema Art Rooijakkers
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language	Dutch
No. of seasons	29 (including 2 Junior series, 1 Jubilee series and 1 Streaming series)
Production
Production locations	List Australia (1999–2000) Scotland (2001) Portugal (2002) Canada (2003) Australia, Indonesia (2005) Argentina (2006) Thailand (2007) Mexico (2008) Northern Ireland, Jordan (2009) Japan (2010) El Salvador, Nicaragua (2011) Iceland, Spain (2012) South Africa (2013) Hong Kong, Philippines (2014) Sri Lanka (2015) Dominican Republic (2016) United States (2017) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine (2018) Colombia (2019) China (2020) Italy (2020) Czech Republic (2021) Albania (2022) South Africa (2023) Mexico (2024) Oman (2024)
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	IDTV
Original release
Network	AVRO AVROTROS
Release	November 19, 1999 (1999-11-19) – present
Related
De Mol

Format

Wie is de Mol? is a reality television competition involving a group of candidates. These candidates travel to a foreign country where they have to complete assignments to earn money to fill the prize pot. However, one of the participants is selected as the Mole. The Mole's goal is to secretly sabotage the assignments and keep the total amount of money in the pot as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is, and attempt to figure out the Mole's identity throughout the season.

At the end of every episode the candidates take a multiple choice test about the Mole's identity. The test contains 20 questions (40 questions in the final test) about the Mole's activities since the previous test and personal questions about the Mole (for example, "On which team was the mole during the castle-assignment" or "Has the mole been baptized?"). With the help of 'jokers', which they can earn during the assignments, the contestants can turn incorrect test answers into correct answers.

The person with the fewest correct answers is then eliminated from the show. In most series this process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned for the prize pot throughout the season.^[1]

Hosts

Color key:

	Host
	Guest appearance
	Participant

Host	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13	S14	S15	S16	S17	S18	S19	S20	JB[a]	S21	S22	S23	S24	STR[b]	S25
Angela Groothuizen
Karel van de Graaf [nl]
Pieter Jan Hagens
Art Rooijakkers
Rik van de Westelaken
Hila Noorzai [nl]

Notes

1. A special returning candidates season in celebration of 20 seasons of Wie is de Mol?
2. A special streaming season in celebration of 25 years of Wie is de Mol? with its first all civilian cast since Season 4.

Seasons

The first four seasons of Wie is de Mol? had ordinary people as participants. After the break in 2004, all participants in the following seasons were Dutch celebrities.

The 7th season in 2007 was the first season to have four finalists, with two runner-ups.

The 18th season in 2018 was the first to be located in six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia.

In September 2020, a special jubilee season aired in celebration of twenty seasons of Wie is de Mol?.

In February 2025, a new anniversary season was announced in celebration of twenty-five seasons of "Wie is de Mol?" to air later in the year.

Season	Start date	Host	The Mole	Winner	Runner-up/s		Amount won	International destination
1	November 19, 1999	Angela Groothuizen	Deborah	Petra	Robin		ƒ82,500[a]	Australia
2	January 5, 2001		Nico	Sigrid	Yvonne		ƒ70,000[a]	Scotland
3	February 8, 2002		George	John	Jantien		€42,300.-	Portugal
4	March 15, 2003		Elise	Ron	Chandrika		€35,550.-	Canada
5	January 14, 2005		Yvon Jaspers	Marc-Marie Huijbregts	Lottie Hellingman [nl]		€23,000.-	Australia Indonesia (Bali)
6	March 10, 2006	Karel van de Graaf [nl]	Milouska Meulens [nl]	Frédérique Huydts [nl][b]	Roderick Veelo [nl]		€24,475.-	Argentina
7	January 4, 2007		Inge Ipenburg [nl]	Paul Rabbering [nl]	Renate Verbaan[c]	Eva van der Gucht[c]	€17,300.-	Thailand
8	January 3, 2008	Pieter Jan Hagens	Dennis Weening	Edo Brunner	Regina Romeijn [nl]		€20,375.-	Mexico
9	January 8, 2009		Jon van Eerd [nl]	Vivienne van den Assem	Anniek Pheifer [nl]		€22,650.-	Northern Ireland Jordan
10	January 7, 2010		Kim Pieters [nl]	Frits Sissing	Sanne Vogel [nl]		€21,950.-	Japan
11	January 6, 2011		Patrick Stoof [nl]	Art Rooijakkers[d]	Soundos el Ahmadi [nl]		€19,540.-	El Salvador Nicaragua
12	January 5, 2012	Art Rooijakkers	Anne-Marie Jung [nl]	Hadewych Minis	Liesbeth Staats [nl]		€12,601.-	Iceland Spain (Andalusia)
13	January 3, 2013		Kees Tol [nl]	Paulien Cornelisse	Carolien Borgers [nl]		€17,120.-	South Africa
14	January 2, 2014		Susan Visser	Sofie van den Enk	Freek Bartels [nl]		€16,700.-	Hong Kong Philippines
15	January 1, 2015		Margriet van der Linden [nl]	Rik van de Westelaken[e]	Marlijn Weerdenburg [nl]		€10,500.-	Sri Lanka
16	January 2, 2016		Klaas van Kruistum [nl]	Tim Hofman	Annemieke Schollaardt		€13,020.-	Dominican Republic
17	January 7, 2017		Thomas Cammaert	Sanne Wallis De Vries [nl]	Jochem van Gelder		€24,320.-	United States (Oregon)
18	January 6, 2018		Jan Versteegh	Ruben Hein [nl]	Olcay Gulsen		€17,750.-	Georgia[f]
19	January 5, 2019	Rik van de Westelaken	Merel Westrik	Sarah Chronis	Niels Littooij		€10,150.-	Colombia
20	January 11, 2020		Rob Dekay [nl]	Buddy Vedder	Miljuschka Witzenhausen[g]	Nathan Rutjes[g]	€13,400.-	China (Henan)
JB1[h]	September 5, 2020		Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte	Nikkie de Jager	Tygo Gernandt		€12,580.-	Italy (Tuscany)
21	January 2, 2021		Renée Fokker	Roxanne 'Rocky' Hehakaija [nl]	Charlotte Nijs [nl]		€9,675.-	Czech Republic
22	January 1, 2022		Everon Jackson Hooi [nl]	Fresia Cousiño Arias [nl]	Kim-Lian van der Meij		€8,065.-	Albania
23	January 7, 2023		Jurre Geluk [nl]	Daniël Verlaan [nl]	Ranomi Kromowidjojo		€11,650.-	South Africa
24	January 6, 2024		Anna Gimbrère [nl]	Fons Hendriks [nl]	Rosario Mussendijk [nl]		€8.585.-	Mexico
STR[i]	June 28, 2024	Hila Noorzai [nl]	Nyree	Emma	Jelmer		€10.535.-	Oman
25	January 4, 2025	Rik van de Westelaken	Stijn de Vries [nl]	Roos Moggré	Maaike Martens [nl]		€8.055.-	Cambodia
JB2[j]	1 November 2025							Portugal

Notes

1. Guilder, the national Dutch currency at the time
2. Frédérique Huydts [nl] died on 3 April 2006, during the period that season 6 was broadcast on television. As requested by her, the airing of the season continued. The €24,475.- that she won was donated to WWF and Foundation KiKa.
3. The final of season 7 had four finalists. Renate and Eva both lost to Paul.
4. After unmasking the Mole in season 11 and winning the season, Art went on to present Wie is de Mol? from seasons 12 to 18.
5. After unmasking the Mole in season 15 and winning the season, Rik went on to present Wie is de Mol? from season 19 onwards.
6. Candidates began the first episode in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia or Ukraine. The first assignment involved finding plane tickets to Georgia, where the remainder of the season would be filmed.
7. The final of season 20 had four finalists. Miljuschka and Nathan came second and third respectively and lost to Buddy.
8. To celebrate the 20th season, an extra "Jubilee" season, which aired in 2020, was announced at the end of the season 20 finale.
9. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wie is de Mol?, an extra "Streaming" season, which aired in 2024, was announced on 14 May 2024, the first to feature non-celebrity candidates since 2003.
10. To celebrate the 25th season, an extra "Anniversary" season, which will air in 2025, was announced on 7 February 2025.^[2]

Junior editions

Season	Airdate	Presenter	The Mole	Winner	Runner-up	Prize money	Destination
1	17 May 2008	Sipke Jan Bousema	Amin	Naomi	Lara	6970 Two and a half cent coin (Netherlands) (€79)	Zwolle
2	9 March 2014	Art Rooijakkers	Jenny	Davey	Roeland	€1,020	Maastricht Zeeland

Locations map

The 1999 and 2005 seasons of the show were both filmed in Australia (in 2005, part of the show was also filmed in Indonesia). The 2013 and 2023 seasons of the show were both filmed in South Africa. The 2008 and 2024 seasons were both filmed in Mexico.

Australia

Canada

Indonesia

Argentina

Thailand

Mexico

Jordan

Japan

El Salvador

Nicaragua

South Africa

Hong Kong

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Dominican Republic

United States of America

Colombia

China

Oman

Cambodia

Locations of the Dutch version of The Mole.

Ratings

^[3]

Season	Timeslot	Premiere		Finale (Reunion)		Average ratings
		Date	Ratings	Date	Ratings
1	Friday, 20:30	19 November 1999	807,000	21 January 2000	915,000	793,000
2		5 January 2001	1,070,000	2 March 2001	960,000	1,006,000
3	Friday, 21:35	8 February 2002	928,000	19 April 2002	1,005,000	909,000
4	Saturday, 21:00	15 March 2003	1,115,000	24 May 2003	626,000	785,000
5	Friday, 20:30	14 January 2005	1,289,000	18 March 2005	1,485,000	1,450,000
6		10 March 2006	1,168,000	12 May 2006	1,147,000	1,106,000
7	Thursday, 20:30[4]	4 January 2007	1,358,000	15 March 2007	1,270,000	1,188,000
8		3 January 2008	1,922,000	6 March 2008	1,563,000	1,513,000
9		8 January 2009	1,597,000	12 March 2009	1,409,000	1,460,000
10		7 January 2010	2,040,000	25 March 2010	1,558,000	1,673,000
11		6 January 2011	2,146,000	17 March 2011	2,031,000	1,922,000
12		5 January 2012	2,136,000	8 March 2012	2,105,000	1,899,000
13		3 January 2013	2,070,000	7 March 2013	2,579,000	2,132,000
14		2 January 2014	2,455,000	20 March 2014	3,148,000	2,464,000
15		1 January 2015	2,486,000	5 March 2015	3,359,000	2,403,700
16	Saturday, 20:30	2 January 2016	2,163,000	5 March 2016	2,982,000	2,114,900
17		7 January 2017	2,882,000	11 March 2017	2,999,000	2,536,000
18		6 January 2018	2,669,000	10 March 2018	3,227,000	2,582,300
19		5 January 2019	2,986,000	9 March 2019	3,500,000	2,869,400
20		11 January 2020	3,002,000	14 March 2020	3,894,000	2,591,300
Renaissance		5 September 2020	2,665,000[5]	25 October 2020	3,567,000	2,741,750
21		2 January 2021	3,117,000[6]	6 March 2021	3,348,000[7]	3,180,700
22		1 January 2022	3,120,000[8]	5 March 2022	3,242,000[9]	2,894,000
23		7 January 2023	2,634,000[10]	11 March 2023	3,081,000[11]	2,451,400
24		6 January 2024	3,717,000[12]	9 March 2024