Fortunately, Albert Verlinde has not yet forgotten how to riot. He deals a hard verbal blow to Marc-Marie Huijbregts, with whom he has been at odds for years. “Never been caught making a sensible comment!”
They are absolutely not friends of each other: Albert Verlinde and Marc-Marie Huijbregts. It must have particularly stung Albert that Marc-Marie started advocating for his ribbon to be taken away just two years ago in a talk show – Albert had just been convicted of defamation in a case brought by Humberto Tan.
Years of fitness
We have never heard Albert say anything positive about Marc-Marie since. He also found it terrible that the comedian recently appeared every evening as a sidekick in Beau van Erven Dorens’ talk show. “Yes, it doesn’t bother me, haha,” he said succinctly. “He never knows what. He is there, but he doesn’t really know anything.”
Those years of fitness are now happily continued, because Albert is joining the AD program Famous or Infamous namely once again mercilessly hard at Marc-Marie. He responds to statements the comedian has made in the past about Tim Hofman’s appearance.
Cultural appropriation
Marc-Marie once said that Tim was too gay behaves. “What he’s upset about is that it’s a bit cultural appropriation of gays. I think he’s a bit…”
His then podcast colleague Aaf Brandt Corstius: “He steals the style of gays?”
Marc-Marie: “Yes… And he’s like: yes, that should all be possible, right? He mainly has to do all the metrosexual things, so to speak, but it is of course much easier for him… You understand? It’s a bit like being white and putting your hair in dreadlocks and saying, ‘Yes, I like that.’”
‘Never anything sensible!’
Albert now looks back on those statements in that AD program and then lashes out at Marc-Marie. “I have never been able to catch Marc-Marie making a sensible comment, so I find this completely nonsensical.”
“Someone is the way he is and if you shout at a table with your squeaky voice that someone else wants to attract the gay world, while you yourself have made gay a brand, then yes… Stop it for a moment!”
Whining
Image expert Noah Smits stands next to Albert in the AD studio and agrees with him. “Plus: it just helps a lot of people, right? There are just a lot of people who see someone in the mainstream media who dresses like him or acts like him, and they definitely get something out of it.”
“I have a problem with it when some people start complaining about it. Then I think: yes, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean that there are many people in the Netherlands who now think: hey, I identify and recognize myself in this.”
Black nail polish
By the way, this Noah thinks that Tim sometimes goes too far. “The black nail polish or wearing a skirt once… I think that is just a little too elaborate, a little too well thought out, that I think: just take that step back.”
Something like that is a shame, he decides. “I think it is now becoming too much of a marketing machine.”