Johan Derksen thinks it is a shame that René van der Gijp always has a glass of wine on the table for his sniffer at Today Inside. You shouldn’t promote something like that at all, according to the TV mustache.
Johan Derksen himself is a teetotaler: he does not drink alcohol at all. The Today Inside star believes that other people should also reduce their alcohol consumption, especially when it comes to road users. If you still have to get into the car, you shouldn’t have any alcohol at all, in his opinion.
Wrong signal
Johan is in favor of a zero-tolerance policy, he says in the Party. “Currently, two glasses of alcohol are allowed for driving. But I think the Netherlands is too sloppy with this. I also wonder: is it wise for us to drink at talk show tables?”
His colleague René van der Gijp also does this, as does regular table guest Job Knoester. “A wrong signal to the people and besides, those men just have to drive home after the broadcast, right?”
Smoking cigars
Johan himself smokes a lot of cigars in his podcast, which is also broadcast on YouTube. So that’s okay? “You can grow old with it, I have already proven that.”
How many cigars does he smoke? “I don’t count them, I smoke all day long.”
As far as he knows, Johan is healthy. Except for his eyes. “The condition glaucoma is considered to be more serious than cataracts. My eye will remain at this level, it will not get better and will never return to what it was before. But it is stable now and I can live with it.”
A bit more expensive
Finally: how long will Johan remain associated with VI? “As long as I can still get my words out and express what I think and think in the same sharp manner, I can still survive for a while.”
“Look, what I do is an experience profession. You have to have a lot of life experience and you get a little better every year. And I hope that John de Mol also realizes that I become a little more expensive every year,” he jokes.