Johan Derksen, René van der Gijp and Wilfred Genee were under fire two weeks ago after Johan made a revelation about his young years as a football player. He is said to have ‘introduced’ a candle to someone fifty years ago. He later nuanced this, but to no avail. Especially the jolly atmosphere during and after the anecdote was experienced as terrible by many people.
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Angela de Jong told yesterday in Beau that she understands that that atmosphere is there in the studio. “I understand that there is a certain dynamic there at the table, when you see it again…”, she says until she is interrupted by Derk Sauer. “I’ve kept my mouth shut for a long time,” he begins, “but Angela, isn’t that nonsense that you can imagine that a certain dynamic arises at the table?”
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“When someone says something like that, you say, ‘What’s going on here?'” he continues. Angela is on the defensive. “Look, Johan started his story with: ‘I have a story’. Well then Van der Gijp starts screaming like a kind of Gerard Joling. And then there is another sentence and then there is laughter even harder. If you know the program then you know: there’s going to be some silly ending now. I can really imagine that everyone was laughing there and that at some point the penny dropped like: shit, what are we laughing about anyway?”
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Derk doesn’t think that’s a good explanation. “I can’t imagine that at all. I find it incomprehensible that people start laughing when someone tells a story about a woman who is drowsy on a couch and then goes to work with a candle.” Although Angela kept the jolly mood during the infamous Today Insidebroadcast, she doesn’t understand why the VI-men didn’t say right after that the story went too far. “They didn’t sense it,” she concludes.
Watch the conversation in Beau Below.
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