Valentijn Driessen refuses to join News of the Day, the right-wing TV news from SBS 6. “Yes, what can you say in five minutes? Well, I would much rather be at VI,” he says.
The right-wing TV news from SBS 6, Nieuws van de Dag, co-presented by Art Rooijakkers, is full of stars from De Telegraaf. That is not surprising, because the program has a collaboration with the conservative newspaper. Yet we will not see Valentijn Driessen, sports journalist for the newspaper, joining the evening section.
Driessen-moe
Hélène Hendriks asks him about it The Orange Winter last night why Valentine hasn’t sat there yet. “I actually kind of expected you at News of the Day.”
Valentine has heard that before. “Yes, more people have asked me why I am not at News of the Day. Yes, I say… I have so many stages and to add that stage too… Then people become very, very tired of Driessen.”
Big disadvantage
According to Valentijn, the time of day doesn’t help either. “What I also find a big disadvantage is that it is always at 6 p.m. and before I get there, I have to leave at 4 p.m., because so many people have to have their faces painted, because sometimes it is like a game of musical chairs at the moment. . Then you finish at 7 p.m. and then people have had five minutes.”
“I also saw Merel Ek this week. She was there for five minutes and then she can leave again. Yeah, what can you say in five minutes? Well, then I’d much rather be at VI than there. They do have a very good one, because Noa Vahle is of course there, only she was on holiday last week and then Sjaak Polak came. Yes, that was less of a success.”