Albert Verlinde turns around about the rioting widow Rachel Hazes. He now admits that her behavior is indeed ‘very clumsy’. “Yes, I know that too,” said the gossip pensionary.
It caused a lot of annoyance last week: Albert Verlinde went into it meters deep with Rachel Hazes during his Today Inside debut. She had just picked a fight with Rob Goossens, leaked it to a juice channel and then saw it explode in her face. Witty, but Albert could not clearly analyze the situation because of a conflict of interest.
Speaking ban
Albert has had a friendly relationship with Rachel since they started dating together revival of the Hazes musical and maneuvered her into a kind of victim position at VI. She would have it so hard as a cashier of the Hazes group. A weak argument, Johan Derksen judged a day later.
It was touched up again last night Inside today, where Albert sat at the table for the second time. “Yeah, I can’t talk about that anymore, can I? I have been banned from speaking about Rachel Hazes!”
Credibility
Wilfred Genee: “Yes, you lost a lot of your credibility with that, people thought. Do you think so too?”
Albert: “No, I think that’s nonsense! It can’t be the case that I’m not going to say what I think because I think I’ll get on Twitter that I’m unbelievable? No, but get it? I’m not going to say anything about it either. There is something in me – that’s really true – that if the whole of the Netherlands pounds on one woman…”
Very clumsy
Wilfred: “Then there must be some reason for it then, Albert?”
Then Albert comes around and admits that Rachel is a clumsy woman. “I know that… Yes… I know that too, because she does things very clumsily, but then we are talking about her. But I’m just going to stand up for the underdog a bit. That’s part of me.”
No business interest
Rachel herself is looking for a fight with everyone. Why does Albert always want to push her into the victim role? It looks even more incredible to her than the mother role. Does it have to do with his friendly relationship with Rachel? “I just did what I always did at Boulevard: just contact someone.”
He continues: “It’s not that I’m in constant contact with her day in and day out, only that day I thought: now that there have been messages like this, I’ll text her again. Well, that’s all. And I have no business interest in it.”
will
Wilfred: “Didn’t you just ask for that will?”
Rachel: “No, I didn’t ask that. I just asked if she regrets taking on that fight (with Rob Goossens, ed.). ‘Why do you do that?’ Well, she didn’t regret it. But she has to do that, right, not me.”
Finally: does Albert catch on a bit as a VI guest? Yes, he says himself. “Last week there was a police van on Museumplein that opened the window. I thought: what was going on? “Was good yesterday!” So I get compliments.”
Rating banger?
Albert is not yet a real viewing figure smasher, thinks Tina Nijkamp:
