Valentijn Driessen carried a hearing aid on television for the first time and with that he was quite plagued by Wilfred Genee. Yet the Telegraaf star is very happy with it. “Expensive shit.”
The Today Inside-Cutlower suddenly heard a very hard beep yesterday. What turned out later? It was a set -up from presenter Wilfred Genee to tease Table guest Valentijn Driessen with his new hearing aid. “Hello? Are you not? I hear all sounds. Does anyone have a hearing aid that may be too loud?”
“Yes, that’s me!”
Valentijn has no problem with it and is very open about it. “Yes, I have!”
Wilfred: “Do you have a hearing aid? Really?”
Valentijn: “Yes, you hardly see that, hey? I was here last week and then that Chris Woerts was there and I just didn’t hear it, of that big nonsense, but I could hardly understand Bas, so I think: dude, I walk past the hearing care professional, so I now have two of those hearing aids. I don’t hear Chris perfect.”
Deep into your ear
Wilfred wonders how it works. “How is that? It’s really deep in your ear or something?”
Valentijn: “Yes, I think: I will say it in advance, because otherwise Van der Gijp or Derksen will shout:” What will grow out of your ear? “, And then they pull my ear and then they suddenly pull out a hearing aid. Of course I had little appetite.”
Wilfred: “Can you adjust it or not? Because every now and then he apparently disturbs on that channel.”
Valentijn: “Is it it? Because we tested and then it went very well.”
Wilfred: “Okay, then it’s okay.”
“Are you okay?”
Immediately after the advertising block, Wilfred Valentijn teases that squeaking noise again. “Is it going well by the way? Do you hear it a bit or not?”
Valentijn has now realized that his hearing aid does not disturb at all, but that it is a teasing: “Incredible!”
Afterwards, Wilfred asks in In the corridors: “Was it really so bad that you didn’t understand anything anymore?”
Valentijn: “Yes, I had been playing it for a month or two and I thought: I’m going to see if I can still understand everyone at the bar when I come here.”
Expensive shit
It is expensive, such a hearing aid, says Valentijn. “It is expensive shit. No, it is not sponsored. These are also partly reimbursed by the medical expenses. They are 300 euros each, but I also have a few at home – I could also try – those 5,000 euros, but that is Laaielroor. That is not about anything at all.”
What do you mean then? “That is not that much better and they are like that, then I will have sailor ears in two months.”
Finally: how old is Valentine anyway? “I am 62. It’s in the family. At least, my father has it too.”