While Coffee Time cultivated the neat image of coffee cups and cosiness kletsers, there was a silent culture behind the scenes. “I was not allowed to say anything about it.”
Private star journalist Jan Uriot used to regularly start in Coffee Time to talk to presenter Loretta Schrijver about the last showbiz sweets. But one juicy scoop never came to the table. When Ron Brandsteder drank the Vecht, Jan was told that he had to avoid that subject. He was banned from speaking.
Cash
Jan still remembers it as yesterday. “There has been a time when I joined Coffee Time as a guest of Loretta Schrijver, to go through the latest entertainment news. When Ron Brandsteder had ended up in the Vecht under the influence, I was not allowed to say anything about it of the editors.”
He continues in the New Revu: “Coffee time had ties with the National Postcode lottery, for which Ron Brandsteder did presentation. It was covered up.”
On the roadside
Son Rick Brandsteder is now discredited because he has also crawled behind the wheel with drinks. “You would say that Rick knows the history of his father and has a warned person for two, you would say.”
He continues: “Rick consciously experienced all of that, he was no longer a baby when his father crawled behind the wheel with drinks. But history repeats himself. He has not learned anything from it.”
Never spoken
Jan never spoke Rick. “Strangely enough, I have never spoken to him in all those years that I am showbiz reporter.”
Strange actually, the showbiz reporter concludes. “You can wonder how that is possible and whether he has something to hide. We are of course journalists who ask and grinds questions.”