Willibrord Frequin (80) will never return to television. “It has been beautiful”, says the presenter who was a guest in the SBS 6 talk show tonight HLF8. “This was my last performance. I did that for Johnny, whom I’ve known for years.”
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Johnny de Mol called it ‘an honor’ that he was the last to receive Frequin. “Johnny used to spend a lot of time with my daughter Rebecca. Business wise, eh. I thought it would be a nice ending for him,” said Frequin, who was invited to talk about 70 years of television and his own career that started at the KRO in 1963.
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As a reporter at Brandpunt, he made high-profile reports abroad, after which he went to work for RTL and SBS 6. Between 1996 and 2003 he made Willibrord’s Week, Behind closed doors, eyewitness on Toppers. In recent years he could still be seen in the RTL travel program Better late than never, along with Gerard Cox, Barrie Stevens and Peter Faber. “That was a great adventure.”
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His best time? ,,That I could stand up for the people in society who had it bad. In Willebrord’s Week, but also in my Focal pointperiod, people under heavy regimes.”
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‘I don’t miss television at all’
Frequin is now eighty years old, but nobody has to worry. ,,I’m fit, I don’t have a walker yet, I walk a lot. I read books and unload the washing machine every day.”
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He does not miss television ‘at all’. “I watch a lot less. I find the talk shows boring, they all look alike. Interviews, they are not at all to the point. I fall asleep to it.” What is he looking at? ,,Football matches and Veronica Inside. I enjoy that immensely. That’s where the trendsetters of television are located,” says Frequin, who in the past sometimes took a seat in the program of Wilfred Genee, René van der Gijp and Johan Derksen. “If they call? Well, then I would doubt…”
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