Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, whose sorry interview is in newsstands this weekend, would have scolded the sound man who made Rolf Sanchez’s TV appearance difficult, thinks Johan Derksen.
TV stars will be careful if they ever want to reprimand an employee, because before you know it you will end up as Matthijs van Nieuwkerk. He has been on non-active for almost a year now because he has given off employees of De Wereld Draait Door. After all this time in the penalty box, his comeback finally seems imminent.
Sorry interview
Matthijs’ big sorry interview with Coen Verbraak is coming up. Not on the radio or on television, but in the newspaper. A major interview would appear in NRC this weekend, which may already be online this evening. Whether that is correct remains to be seen, but it is already clear that this will not be enough: eventually people also want a TV interview.
The big question is: has Matthijs managed to tame his enormous temperament? The day before yesterday we saw on television how Rolf Sanchez’s appearance on Humberto Tan’s talk show failed because of a failing soundman. Such a technician would have been completely given off under Matthijs’s reign of terror, thinks Johan Derksen.
Rotten swearing
Johan immediately thought of Matthijs when he saw that fragment with Rolf pass by, he says Inside today. “This is a salient example. If Matthijs van Nieuwkerk had experienced this, he would have scolded the sound man completely. And quite rightly so, right?”
Colleague Wilfred Genee then: “Yes, I mean: that boy told a very vulnerable story and then this happens to you, you know. Then you will try it again for the first time in front of a large audience, your father and everyone is there… And then this.”
Blundering Humberto
Incidentally, Humberto himself also blundered, Wilfred notes. “Rolf said the song was about losing people. He told a story about Ruud, his manager. He was in the hospital and at some point he had to leave the room and it was not sure whether Ruud would make it. That played a part in that song.”
He continues: “Humberto concluded that the man had died, but Humberto forgot to ask. Humberto no longer asked: ‘How did Ruud turn out?’, so he completely assumed: Ruud is dead.”
However, Ruud was just sitting in the studio. “Oh, you’re alive.”
Messy conversation
Table guest Angela de Jong did not think it was a good broadcast from Humberto. “It was a messy conversation. It was also difficult for me to pay attention.”
She sympathizes with Rolf, who was the victim of the technical problems. “He was completely on nerves.”