Giel de Winter and his colleagues from StukTV have incurred the anger of the Zonnehuis elderly complex in Zwolle. “But we are not going to take any legal action.”
It is Yvonne Coldeweijer who was the first to tell the story yesterday that Giel de Winter and his colleagues from StukTV got into mischief at a nursing home in Zwolle. They made a lot of noise there for the recordings of their program Puberende Bejaarden, in which they go undercover as three elderly people.
Not amused
What happened? “They parked the camper right in front of the door and lugged boxes of crockery, which they dropped for fun,” said Yvonne. “The residents were quite shocked by all the noise and worried because they were being filmed unsolicited. The board was not amused.”
Odile Schunselaar, spokesperson for the Zonnehuisgroep, confirms the incident. “They pretended that someone was moving into the care home. One of the people came to report and an employee of ours wanted to help them,” she says in the regional newspaper The Stentor†
A lot of noise
According to Odile it is true that a lot of noise has been made, but especially outside. “There was no great chaos inside and there were no shards everywhere. Everything mainly took place outside, in front of our entrance.”
The worst part is that a care worker spent a lot of time on this, says Odile. “As a result, the employee was unable to engage in care for some time and that is of course not what we want.”
no steps
Yvonne states that the elderly complex has threatened legal action against StukTV, but according to Odile, they are not taken. “It is not right that we are going to take legal action.”
Talpa, which StukTV falls under, does not want to respond according to De Stentor.
Adolescent Elderly
A few years ago, the ‘pubescent elderly’ also turned the talk show M upside down: