Catherine Keyl is getting a lot of heat after her criticism of the Curaçao edition of Today Inside. According to VI mustache Johan Derksen, she has sunk to the ‘lowest of the low’.
It has been a deception so far, says Catherine Keyl: the Curaçao edition of Today Inside. She thinks it’s strange to watch this staff outing as an outsider, but she also thinks that you can’t take experts like Raymond Mens seriously if they take a seat in the studio in shorts and without shoes or slippers. “I’m too Dutch for that.”
Commercial deal
Johan answers that criticism with a strong reprimand. “Catherine Keyl has descended to the lowest you can achieve in TV: Harry Mens,” he says Today Inside. “He also said the same thing that we had a school trip here.”
She continues: “She thought the worst thing was that there were people wearing shorts here. Then I thought: dude, what are you talking about? We are not here for tax money, we are just doing a commercial deal.”
Shorts
Wilfred Genee points out Catherine’s criticism. “She can’t take people in shorts seriously. That’s why both Dave and Bas have now put on long pants.”
Johan: “I wouldn’t wear shorts myself. I last wore shorts in 1978 at the last MVV – PEC Zwolle match and if I look at you, I would consider myself a clownish fool wearing shorts.”
‘Let go!’
Catherine’s performance at Harry Mens was much discussed, because the host spoke in a rather old-fashioned way about the role of women. “Isn’t it just the warmth with Harry?”, says Wilfred.
René van der Gijp: “Certainly, man. Let it go. I mean: what does Catherine Keyl want? That we are going to change Harry Mens’s mind at the age of 78? Let it go, man! That man is in a different way than anyone else. Well, that’s also good, right?”
Ten backs
It’s sad TV, says Johan. “Yes, but René, it is of course sad TV. If you put ten rugs on the table, you can make your sales pitch. The funny thing is: when you are home on Sunday, you always take a look, because something strange always happens.”
Wilfred: “But these kinds of conversations always get weirder, I think.”
René: “As we age, the conversations become more and more crazy.”
Johan concludes: “They pass each other.”
