Rogier Smit, who was a well-known reality star for years until his psychological problems took over, lashes out at political leader Rob Jetten in the Nieuwe Revu. “He’s too nerdy.”
The New Revu gives former reality star Rogier Smit a fairly large stage to unleash on Rob Jetten, the increasingly successful leader of D66. Frank Jansen’s ex does not understand at all that Jetten is making such an advance in the polls, because according to Rogier – himself a homosexual – he is too gay for politics.
Aversion to gays
Rogier is annoyed by it. “Jetten should just go on stage as a drag queen in the Amsterdam gay café Montmartre. I don’t support him. I always find him so slippery.”
What do you mean? “Always a bit of a laugh. Everything he says about those Wilders… Do you know what it is? He’s just a gay person. And I’m actually starting to have an aversion to gay people.”
Way too creepy
According to Rogier, you cannot be gay as a leading politician. “I think he’s far too shy for politics. You really have to keep business and private life separate.”
He continues: “It’s up to him to know that he lives with that man and gets married, but if he then starts negotiating with Russia or anyone else, for example, we are not taken seriously because of his open homosexuality. That may be annoying and maybe I’m not allowed to say it, but that’s just how it works.”
‘Rutte hides it’
A gay person as prime minister certainly doesn’t work, according to Rogier. “I’ve always said that about Rutte. He plays the game well and hides his homosexuality. Politics is really the highest game to play. And something else shouldn’t be a distraction, such as: ‘I’m getting married to my boyfriend.'”
He concludes: “Sharing those kinds of details from your private life, that’s normal not done. That Rob Jetten? No, that’s terrible, I wouldn’t be attracted to that. I think he even irons his underwear.”