Carlo Boszhard and other men who are high in the tree at RTL cause strong irritation. “It’s all the same. They all have a bit of that gay humor,” is the criticism.
The two most important directors of RTL, Peter van der Vorst and Sven Sauvé, and one of their most important TV makers, Carlo Boszhard, get a lot of it in the podcast The Media Week. According to media journalist Mark Koster, who makes this podcast together with Tina Nijkamp, these gentlemen form a very non-inclusive club at the media company.
Gayhumor
Peter van der Vorst always shouts that he wants to have the most inclusive presenters’ stable in the Netherlands, but what about the management? Mark points out that there is no black person in it, for example.
“RTL never wanted to talk about that, because Peter van der Vorst is:” Inclusion this, inclusion that, “but all the people around him, are all the same Joh. I think that’s unity sausage. All of those men, all of that … it’s all the same. They all have a bit of that gayhumor, I have nothing with it.”
Week and soft
Mark gets the shivers of all those RTL types. “It is all of that soft, soft, I don’t like that. I have that with the top of RTL. These are all gay men. That is also unity sausage. If you all have homosexual men with the same taste, that’s not good either. You can’t say that, it’s a small taboet, but it is.”
“Peter van der Vorst, Sven Sauvé, Barry Schneider, our friend of Make Up Your Mind, Carlo (Boszhard, ed.). I all get the same feeling about it. It is a small taboo, but it used to be called the gay-vd, you know those VVD-Homos, that is all that is a bit of the same.”
Canal Parade
A typical example of a program that disturbs Mark is Make Up Your Mind, for which just about all male Dutch celebrities now dragqueen Dressed up. “It’s a kind of Canal Parade. It’s not my taste. I can’t look at it. That half screams and hassle.”
The makers of that show, Carlo and his friend, have also made Play That Song Again. “That is precisely that atmosphere that hangs there! Everything is fantastic, everything is fake. That Carlo Boszhard … There is nothing sincere about that guy! Also not with that married at first sight. Hold on, man.”
Half -false
Tina does not share Mark’s fierce criticism. She is much more nuanced in it, although she understands that people can be annoyed by Carlo. “You have to like his way of presenting.”
Finally, Mark: “It’s half false. I don’t pull it.”