Catherine Keyl almost wanted to get up and walk away from Harry Mens. But in the end, the media made a huge fuss out of their conflict, she says in her seventeenth interview on the subject.
The story, which according to Catherine Keyl has been blown up by the media, is being reported this week New Revu another new episode, this time narrated by Catherine Keyl herself. She almost wanted to get up and walk away, she now reveals. And that is new. She previously said that there was no argument at all and that they just disagreed.
Keyl wanted to leave
Catherine is quite bipolar when it comes to the Business Class riot. “What a fuss, that such a fragment on a Sunday morning suddenly grows into a huge media thing. 16,000 people watched it and then suddenly the whole of the Netherlands is talking about it. Anyway, it went off the rails quite a bit.”
She is used to some of Harry’s old-fashioned ideas about women. “Only this time it got a bit too crazy for even me. I almost wanted to get up, but then I saw a cameraman completely doubled over with laughter on his stool. Then I thought: well, okay, apparently it’s amusing.”
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It’s a good thing she stayed put, says Catherine. “Look, the difference with a lot of other television nowadays is that this is at least real. In Hilversum nowadays there are a lot of people walking around obediently reading texts from editors from an autocue. I find that terrible. I prefer to watch something that gets out of hand, but is real.”
She concludes: “It doesn’t always have to be smooth. I’m just myself and Harry is also just himself. That’s why it sometimes clashes. And honestly, I think people need that more these days than all that safe, boarded-up television.”