In Angela de Jong’s podcast, Gordon is put through the wringer by Gudo Tienhooven, media journalist at AD. “He is some kind of degraded narcissist,” it sounds.
As one of the most talked about media figures of the past year, Gordon cannot be missing from the annual review AD Media podcastthe podcast by Angela de Jong and her colleagues. When his soap opera is discussed, media journalist Gudo Tienhooven makes it very clear that he is absolutely not charmed by Goor.
Abandoned narcissist
Gudo thinks the whole soap opera is a missed opportunity. “This could actually potentially have become a quite interesting portrait of a kind of degraded narcissist, because that’s what he is. From: what makes that man tick and what is really going on in his head? That could potentially have been something really interesting.”
Colleague Dennis Jansen: “Did you want to know that?”
Gudo: “I would have liked to look at that, as a kind of… I don’t know… A kind of psychological portrait of what fame can do to you.”
Attention cravings
According to Manuel Venderbos, Gordon makes it clear what fame can do to you. “You can see that too, right?”
Gudo: “Yes, no… This is really just a purely sensational documentary that also feeds Gordon’s own lust for attention. That’s all I saw of it in the few episodes I was able to watch, because then I was really, really done with it.”
Cheating
Producer John van den Heuvel has missed the mark, Gudo thinks. “This documentary also gives him plenty of room to criticize everything and everyone without once critically examining himself. I thought it was a real low point.”
Angela de Jong: “That makes it fun, right? That’s what makes it so terrible.”
Gudo: “Yes, I can do that for a while, but not for very long.”