Albert Verlinde lashes out live on television at Dieuwke Wynia, who was Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s infamous horror sidekick for years. “I have problems with her. Then you must have balls!”
Dieuwke Wynia knows how to turn it all around: just like Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, she was under fire for misconduct at De Wereld Draait Door, but has now maneuvered herself into a kind of victim role. She has been writing all kinds of critical pieces about her time at DWDD for quite some time and now she has come up with a whole book.
Albert lashes out
What a wrong move, says Albert Verlinde. “I have serious problems there, I have to be honest,” he says at the desk RTL Tonight. “First of all, I really think: if you think that, then you say it at that moment and you have to be a woman with balls and say: ‘Listen, I won’t accept it, I stand for my team, I won’t let any of this happen.’”
Then to his colleague Beau van Erven Dorens: “You’ve been through that, I’ve been through that, it was really a very hard aunt at that time and that makes sense, because they had the power. (…) People were simply canceled at the last minute or ended up on blacklists. It was a hard culture there.”
Street clean
Beau seems to have the same opinion. “So it sounds a bit like cleaning up your own street?”
Albert: “That’s it. And then I think: why? Matthijs is licking his wounds somewhere and is now carefully coming back to people in his own way with evenings in the country. He also apologized once and to her I think: get a lifeyou know.”
Sexism card
Dieuwke states that she was a victim of sexism. Weak, Albert thinks. “You are still working on it, it is still in your head and don’t try to get it again afterwards. And above all: that sexism card? Don’t pull it. Be tough.”
Private boss Evert Santegoeds is also critical. He agrees Show news: “After so long you might wonder: will it never end?”
Dyantha Brooks: “And is it chic?”
Evert: “No, it doesn’t necessarily have to be chic. I didn’t think the cover was very chic either.”
Breezing lioness
MAX boss Jan Slagter thinks Dieuwke is a false aunt. He says: “No matter how she humiliated other people and how she raged like a roaring lioness… Then I find it very easy as a victim to write newsletters and a book about others, while you have not yet looked properly in the mirror yourself.”
He continues: “She was seen as a dictator in the newsroom and people were afraid of her.”
Celebrity photographer William Rutten concludes: “I know many people who worked on the floor and they were much more afraid of her than of Matthijs.”