If you can choose between finally celebrating King’s Night again after two years with decent amounts of booze, friends and live music, or watching the chairman of the Tesla Owners Club Belgium, then the choice is of course easy. Byron Soulopoulos sat at the table with Khalid & Sophie to denote the purchase of Twitter by his ‘friend’ Elon Musk. Musk, Soulopoulos said, was “a really nice, fun person, the most intelligent person I’ve ever encountered.”
Musk uses Twitter when he is on the toilet and thinks the platform is ‘super fun’. Then 41 billion is of course a bargain. Soulopoulos was optimistic about the future of Twitter in Musk’s hands. “Social media is going to make a move because of Elon Musk.” Perhaps, if Musk has such deep pockets and is so good for humanity, he can arrange a therapist for every Twitter user.
A little later Tom Egbers joined us to talk about Johan Cruijff again. We had already seen Cruijff pass by in many capacities in recent days, but the nicest Cruijff – Cruijff as an analyst – barely. Egbers had brought along a fragment from 2008 in which Cruijff made a Cruijffian calculation about the chances of the Dutch national team in the group stage of the European Championship. “Did you always know what he meant?” Sophie Hilbrand asked. “No,” was the honest and only possible answer. Often no one understood what Cruijff meant, not even himself.
Through a few detours I ended up in the tail of HLF8, in which forester Arjan Postma gave a terribly enthusiastic story about the eel, where everyone at the table nodded understandingly. “Is it true that an eel has two hearts?” Catherine Keyl wanted to know. No, Postma said, it’s more like a build-up of blood. And that blood is poisonous, by the way, so be careful with it. The conclusion was that we actually know too little about the eel. ‘Knowledge is power’, Johnny de Mol summed up the eel.
After he had thanked Arjen Postma with a cheerful raising voice, De Mol got up from the table and made a gloomy face. He will stop presenting for the time being HLF8“because on top of the previous allegations and allegations, a new, anonymous, false accusation has been made this week, making it virtually impossible for me and the editors to continue this work.” The show will continue without De Mol, but it is not yet clear who will replace him. Hélène Hendriks is mentioned. I hope it will be Theo Janssen.
The abdication of Johnny de Mol was unfortunately not the strangest thing the King’s Eve had to offer on television. later, at VI today, Johan Derksen said that decades ago, after a night out, he had put a candle in the vagina of an unconscious woman. ‘She was lucky,’ said René van der Gijp. “For the same money, there’s a baseball bat in the corner.” Hilarious.