Rob Kemps is annoyed by the negative comments he has received from Alex Mazereeuw, the TV critic for de Volkskrant. “I don’t do everything at all! This is all so Dutch.”
Alex Mazereeuw, the Volkskrant equivalent of Angela de Jong, is extremely critical of the new program The 10 Questions. Rob Kemps interviews all kinds of well-known Dutch people all week long. “Kemps therefore seems to be yet another victim of the TV law that breakthrough talents have to do everything right away.”
‘I do not care!’
Does Rob have the review read from Alex? “Yes,” he replies in the talk show Time for MAX. “I can answer why I have to do that: because I feel like it. If you don’t feel like it, then don’t do it.”
Presenter Sybrand Niessen: “When you got up, didn’t you get pissed off? I always get so pissed off with all those pieces.”
Rob initially: “Oh, no, not at all, because I always think: if you like it, you like it, and if you don’t like it, then you don’t like it. Henny Vrienten always sang: ‘Hey, there’s a button on your TV and it will help you out of the mess.’ Yes, then you should go to The Masked Singer, that’s fun too. It does not matter to me.”
‘I don’t do everything!’
Then Rob shows that it really bothers him a bit. “Only what I do think is a bit: that I would do everything… I don’t do everything at all. Last year I made eight episodes of Ik Hou Van Holland. I was a substitute there and we all know why.”
He continues: “Also six episodes Wie Kent Nederland and four episodes Chansons. So I think it’s okay.”
‘So Dutch’
The criticism is a bit lackluster, says Rob. “That is also a bit Dutch. I also had it when I participated in De Slimste Mens… First I was known as Snollebollekes, as a party artist, and then I started making chansons and then people were also like: do you still have to do that.”
A nonsense argument, says Rob. He concludes: “I’m not an interviewer, but I just want to have a nice conversation, you understand?”
