NPO star Tim den Besten does not understand the fuss about the cross-border behavior of Minister Dennis Wiersma. It seems wonderful to him to be humiliated by him. “He’s hot.”
Minister Dennis Wiersma has been under fire for some time now because of ranting and swearing at his officials, for which he has already apologized. There are still many people who think he should leave, but the well-known VPRO star Tim den Besten does not belong to that camp. He jumps into the breach for the VVD politician.
Fetish from Tim
Tim (36) thinks it would be wonderful to be humiliated by Dennis (37). “By the way, I think Dennis Wiersma … I just really like that one, so I would think, for example, if he had someone … I think it would be nice to be scolded by him,” he says in the talk show Jinek.
Hostess Eva Jinek is completely shocked: “This is a kind of fetish niche preference! This is a fetish!”
‘Don’t be silly!’
Tim doesn’t really understand the victims of Dennis’ misconduct. “No, but that’s what I thought… Don’t be like that! If you can be scolded by him, that is surely…”
Fellow guest Ruud Gullit then: “That’s the same as being whistled at, but if Brad Pitt does it, then it’s okay…”
Eva: “I have to process this first.”
Misconduct
By the way, has Tim himself ever been guilty of transgressive behaviour? “I have heard in the past year that I can sometimes react a bit spicy to things. And those people don’t have a job anymore. I can then be a little bit in a kind of emotion…”
“If I really find something, I can’t normally say: ‘What I think about it is actually the following.’ Then I shout: ‘No, but that is not the case!’ I was a bit shocked when I heard from people that they are sometimes afraid to say something to me that I probably don’t agree with…”