Evert Santegoeds, like Rafael van der Vaart, has sometimes appeared drunk on television. Just like the former professional footballer, he had had one too many wines. “Under those warm lights.”
Rafael van der Vaart was drunk on Sunday evening in the very last episode ever of Studio Voetbal. Viewers of the program noticed that he spoke with a slurred tone, after which speculation started on social media. The radio duo Coen Swijnenberg and Sander Lantinga decided to call him to question him about it.
Three wines
There was no denial from Rafael. “Look, it was the last broadcast,” he explained on the radio station JOE. “I flew there in the morning, I lay down for an hour, slept deeply and thought: well, it’s the last broadcast after all, I’ll have two or three glasses of wine.”
And then? “I must honestly say that they were a bit heavier than normal. That won’t happen to me again, haha.”
Sander: “No, because it has stopped!”
Rafael: “Yes, it was the last broadcast, haha.”
Refreshing
What a refreshing response, says presenter Dyantha Brooks. “It’s also very nice that someone just says: ‘Yes, it was indeed one drink too many.’ Of course, we’ve seen it on TV before and people say: ‘Yes, it was a fever’, or: ‘I wasn’t feeling well already.’”
Private boss Evert Santegoeds then confesses: “Yes, it is not possible to have a drink beforehand. It has happened to me in the past… How long have I been here? Eighteen years. It has happened to me before. It is really one wine too many, you enter that studio, it is warm here and then you think: oh, I shouldn’t have done that.”
Sunny days
Dyantha understands that this happened to Rafael. “Those sunny days are difficult, aren’t they? When people go out onto the terrace for a moment and then they think: I’ll do that show afterwards!”
And it has happened to Evert too. “Luckily Coen & Sander didn’t call me then,” he concludes.
