Private star journalist Jan Uriot believes that Matthijs van Nieuwkerk should pay reparations to his victims at De Wereld Draait Door. “These people should receive 2,000 euros before Christmas.”
More than a week after the publication of the much-discussed Volkskrant article about the misconduct of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, there is still a lot to be said about this subject. Private star journalist Jan Uriot is now also involved in the discussion. He thinks there should be a plan for reparations to the victims of De Wereld Draait Door.
Two thousand euros
Jan does not think this is an exaggerated plan, he says in the column What does Jan think. “People have gotten sick. Seventy people. How are you going to manage that, I think. How should that continue? Well, I think: you are a man.”
He continues: “If you rake in four tons every year for fifteen years, then just give those seventy people who got sick of you a nice Christmas bonus of two thousand euros per person. You can easily pull that out of your wallet, I think.”
‘Then you’re a man’
Matthijs is only a man when he starts scattering money, says Jan. “Then at least you show something and then it’s a kind of mea culpa, but we still haven’t heard that from him. Then you are a man if you do that.”
Matthijs is currently very quiet. “Maybe he is not in the Netherlands at all and is in an apartment in his beloved Paris. I would advise that as well. Go ahead and do that and don’t come back on television, because there’s no one who wants to work with you anymore.”
“Away from television!”
Is Jan now saying that he no longer wants to see Matthijs on television again? “Yeah, he just shouldn’t do that anymore. He had his peak with De Wereld Draait Door. Then I think: you are 62 years old, pass the baton to the younger generation.”
What’s his age got to do with it? “You can no longer transform a 62-year-old gentleman. That is in the character and that is and will remain so.”
La Boheme
Incidentally, Jan and Matthijs do not have a good relationship with each other, because the Private star made a claim about him twelve years ago in Koffietijd. Jan then said that Matthijs did not dare to meet his idol Charles Aznavour and that he had therefore rejected a plan from his DWDD editors.
Jan: “I then rode my bike through the Westerpark to the Telegraaf building every morning and there he was jogging every working day at 9.30 am with a security guard next to him. Every time I cycled by I sang ‘La Bohème’ there, but he didn’t look around and immediately turned his head when he saw me coming.”
