Albert Verlinde believes that media interpreter Victor Vlam is spreading nonsense about his role as an interpreter at RTL Tonight. “I laugh at people who completely fill in the blanks and think about what happens behind the scenes.”
It is clear that Albert Verlinde did not take advice from enough people when he decided to switch from Today Inside to the ailing RTL Tonight. It sounded romantic for Albert, a return to the channel where he made his name, but in the end VI would have been a much nicer ending to his TV career.
Highest salary
Victor Vlam is one of the many critics who have spoken negatively about Albert’s rather exaggerated attitude at RTL Tonight. You can really tell from Albert that he thinks he is the one who has to keep the spirits up on the TV show. As head interpreter, he probably gets the highest salary of all the regulars.
The Party asks Albert on the red carpet: “TV critic Victor Vlam recently stated that no matter how well you are doing in his opinion, you might have to fear for your place if a new editor-in-chief wants to give the program a more substantive direction. What do you think of all those opinions?”
What does Albert think?
Albert doesn’t seem to take Victor seriously. “I don’t laugh at criticism. I laugh at people who completely fill in the blanks and think about what could have happened behind the scenes, because that is often nonsense.”
He continues: “Honestly, I can only do my best and nothing more. But there was never any question of sending me away. I am very happy that the viewing figures now seem to be going in the right direction. But it is still very fragile, you know, there may come another day when you think: well, 300,000 viewers again.”
600,000
What Albert sticks to are the outliers upwards. “Sometimes there are now also 600,000 viewers, and that is quite a lot. I have had very contradictory reactions on the street. People often say: ‘It’s a shame you’re leaving Today Inside!’ But many people also say about RTL Tonight: ‘Don’t let it get to you, just keep building!’”
“The public is actually much nicer than the media colleagues.”
