What an incredible mess came out of Gordon’s kitchen in the first episode of “Kookklunzen”. Weird twists, a sleazy quiz show, and really a lot of cooking nonsense. And then two other chefs, of whom you wonder what the Michelin star Onno Kokmeijer has to do with Herman den Blijker, who hasn’t appeared on TV for a year.
The smell of childhood rises from the Kookklunzen television format. It’s a hodgepodge concocted in the bankrupt SBS TV factory.
Gordon, as was probably the arrangement with the producer, would do public relations through his Instagram and through radio and TV in the week before the season began. It was far from a success.
“I said something wrong,” Op1 host Gordon stammered when philosopher Fleur Jongepier went to find a vomit bag as the Dubai resident finished his lecture on Qatar and the sandbox in which he now resides.
This Gordon feels way above criticism. Her singing career means next to nothing after a papal farewell. The role of jury member of television talent shows is also ready. And now a superfluous role as a presenter of Kookklunzen, presented as a competitor to Heel Holland Bakt, you can simply call it a failure.
Kookklunzen’s sponsors have entered the scene rather awkwardly and you wonder what a great chef like Kokmeijer is doing here. Is it a morbid desire for attention, because half an hour of broadcasting makes more than a sea bass cooked on the skin?
From now on, Gordon better take care of his dogs there in Dubai. 54 seems like a wonderful retirement age indeed, unless the ex-market trader reinvents himself and sheds his vivacity. Nowadays there are not only kitchen klutz, but half-baked television klutz as well.
