It is payback time: Job Knoester lashes out at the TV critic after a number of critical analyzes by Victor Vlam. “Victor is a trick,” he sneers. “It’s all about effect. I really think so.”
Before he broke through as a talk show guest, Victor Vlam made a podcast about communication. In that capacity, the TV announcer twice lashed out at Job Knoester. For example, Victor shouted that Job would have ended up in the danger zone of VI due to his blunders at the time and that it is ‘shameful’ that he ‘hangs his entire identity on that program’.
Job vs. Victor
Nowadays Job and his wife regularly lash out at Victor, but also the other way around. For example, last month Victor accused Job of scoring goals and Job called Victor hypocritical again. Last weekend, both gentlemen were together in the radio show Goede Ingelichte Kring, where Job accused Victor of talking nonsense about the Marco Borsato case.
Victor believes that the fornication case against Marco should have been dismissed, but Job thinks that is far too simplistic. And that’s where the men from Today Inside joined last night on television at to.
“Victor is a trick!”
Johan Derksen is critical. “Victor Vlam should not exaggerate. I thought he had nice opinions, but he is now starting to feel like an authority and he came to the conclusion that the Borsato case should be dismissed. Let’s leave that to the judge and not to Victor Vlam, eh? He is now starting to overestimate himself a bit.”
Job goes wild: “But Victor is a trick. He goes somewhere and then he knows in advance how he will achieve an effect and that is what he does. He does that here too. I think he can express his opinion, but it can also be damaging of course. He actually says, with conviction, that the girl has been lying and we have to wait and see.”
Convinced
René van der Gijp has been critical of Victor for some time. He laughs: “Do you think Victor Vlam thinks he is wrong?”
Johan: “No, he is convinced that he is right!”
Job: “I really don’t think it matters to him. It doesn’t interest him.”
Wilfred Genee: “It’s about the effect, you mean?”
Job: “It’s all about the effect. I really think so.”
Wilfred: “Also: that girl was 14, loses her father to suicide, he is in the middle of a situation, then you can have some understanding for such a person that something like this happens to her?”
No trick
Just after the broadcast of VI, Victor is sitting at the desk of Show news to talk about this issue. “No, I don’t think it’s a trick,” he responds. “The funny thing is: if it was a trick, I think it would be better to condemn Marco Borsato harshly, because I have received a lot of criticism for my podcast.”
Royalty expert Sandra Schuurhof is critical: “I think they are mainly thinking about the possible victim.”
Victor: “I believe that the girl is indeed a victim. The question is: is she the victim of her mother (…) or of Borsato? And that is really not entirely clear.”
Shreds
Sandra thinks Victor should keep his mouth shut. “I don’t think you can have a well-founded opinion based on the fragments you have heard. That also applies to myself, so I would never express myself in the media about such a sensitive case, which involves fornication with an underage girl.”
Celebrity photographer William Rutten: “It also happens the other way around, doesn’t it? Many people also have an opinion about Marco. We have heard for four years that there would be a hard confession on tape. I have not heard it yet.”
Clear evidence
Private boss Evert Santegoeds also agrees with this. “It has been suggested in the media, especially by John van den Heuvel, that there would be very clear evidence and that was indeed a bit disappointing when I sat there and took in everything for two days.”
Sandra concludes: “Yes, there is none smoking gunbut that is not the case in many of these cases.”