Johan Derksen shows his middle finger on talk shows | TV

entertainment">As if nothing was wrong, presenter Wilfred Genee announced his regular dinner guests Derksen and René van der Gijp on Monday evening. Roxane Knetemann and Helen van Royen also came to Hilversum to celebrate the return of Today Inside to attend.

entertainment">Looking back on the candle riot and the short departure of the station as a result, Derksen immediately gives text and explanation: „I did not stop because the hysterical ladies fell over me, or because the talk show hosts started to behave like hypocritical people – it seemed as if Jinek was presented by Arie Boomsma. You don’t step up for that. I left when I was exhausted everywhere and the woke community was making a lot of noise. But I can withstand that.”

’Sorry’

entertainment">Only when Derksen got the impression that Talpa was not behind the net VItrio, something snapped in him. “A really embarrassing press release came out from Talpa: that we ‘would humbly apologize that evening’. I was quite fed up with it. And then of course you get the problem that all those people at the talk show tables are going to demand very well and politically correct that I have to apologize. I have to say ‘sorry’ or ‘I’m sorry’. But they don’t have to give me the words, I get by very well.”

entertainment">According to the former editor-in-chief of weekly magazine Football International he had already distanced himself from it in the broadcasts. “It is true, and my wife made that clear to me, so the people who are really affected by sexual violence, I may have hurt them with this. And that was never my intention. But all those people at those talk show tables, who shouted ‘Derksen must apologize’ to score, I only have one gesture: this one”, says Derksen, who then raises his middle finger, followed by applause from the audience.

Romans

entertainment">It was not the first time that Johan Derksen threatened to throw in the towel, but this time it was serious, Paul Römer, radio and television director of Talpa Network, said before: “I don’t think he has left is,” he said after he spoke to Derksen. “He has said it before and then returned, but I think he means it now.”

entertainment">Colleague Van der Gijp also sounded certain of his case. “We are convinced that we will not return to TV in this form,” he told this newspaper after the ‘last’ broadcast.

entertainment">Despite those firm words, it all turned out not to be serious. The men sat down with Talpa and Derksen announced the return of the program before Talpa was ready. Confusion everywhere.

Cancel culture

entertainment">Derksen therefore does not give in to the cancel culture, which he previously said he was a victim of. The question is whether he is actually a victim of cancel culture. Not all critics seemed eager to get the program off the air. But apologies were demanded from society and also from Talpa. “There is a clear line between expressing an opinion and confessing on TV to a crime you once committed,” Römer said.

entertainment">“Sorry”, however, it turns out not to be easy for Derksen, although he put on the penitent in his way somewhere in the last broadcast. “It’s a slip of mine. That’s deadly on TV. Today I got the bill, I was fired everywhere as some kind of criminal.”

entertainment">He would rather resign than make explicit apologies. In the meantime, Talpa appears to be satisfied with half-hearted apologies to allow the viewing figure to return. Or maybe that Derksen will put his hand into his own bosom tonight, and Talpa and the critics will get the excuses they hope for.

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