Luuk Ikink finds the love life of André Hazes Jr. no longer interesting enough to spend a whole item in RTL Boulevard. “We are no longer going to make a big item of that.”
The juice stall of Yvonne Coldeweijer over the heyday of the André Hazes Jr.-Juice and RTL Boulevard was also unable to ignore that. The 31-year-old folk singer has now dumped his child’s mother again, but we hardly hear anything about his new free-range in the show section of Luuk Ikink. Why is that? They are Hazes-tired.
Hazes relegated
Luuk Ikink is really a bit done with it. “Some stories can also be bored at some point. I now also notice it at André Hazes, who now has a new love. Well, we will stop now,” explains the 42-year-old presenter in The Persstribune on NPO Radio 1.
He continues: “We have put that in our news block and we are no longer going to make a big item of it, because: let’s leave it for a while. We have already talked so much about that in recent years.”
“It’s enough”
André was therefore definitively degraded to a B-star at RTL Boulevard? “If it starts to be really interesting again, then we will make it a little big again, but just a new love? Well, that is also a bit smaller. Yes, and I notice that that is enough.”
It is not that they protect him against herself, Luuk emphasizes. “André Hazes has of course also been very much in the picture with his relationship. He was in an advertisement, in a real -life soap, them outside it. If you are talking about it in your expressions, then it is not surprising that people want to know if things go wrong with your relationship.”
Carefully
Juice channels are sometimes accused of being reckless, RTL Boulevard often gets the reproach to be too good. Where is Luuk in that spectrum? “I do notice that when I started with Boulevard, that I was on the more careful side. And now that I am eight, nine years later, I think of: okay, maybe a little bit of pudding.”
“We have many discussions on our editors and that is a lot about online and a lot afterwards also in our meeting. (…) I do notice that I often think of: I understand that people did not necessarily think it was very neat, but still glad we have broadcast it.”
Too good
According to Luuk, you should not get too good either. “The viewer also expects us to continue to follow the news and not think of: well, but this is so annoying for those people, so let’s sit. No, we are just an entertainment program and we are already a piece … We are already a completely different program than before.”
“We are often accused of being too good than we are too intense. But yes, I think, the viewer does expect that we will continue to bring the news, so we have to do that too,” he concludes.