Albert Verlinde did not exactly fall in love with Rob Kemps two and a half years ago during the recording of his shouty TV quiz The Wheel. Now he’s lashing out at him again…
It is funny: Albert Verlinde is now shouting everywhere that new TV talent is having such a hard time due to spicy reactions on social media, but he himself misses no opportunity to destroy Rob Kemps. The show expert recently said that he is anticipating Rob’s TV exit, and now he is giving his spicy opinion in the section In The Walkways.
What can Rob do?
Albert starts with his plea for more celebrity love on social media. “I think: because of social media, young talents’ heads are cut off very quickly before they have a chance to show anything. Immediately it’s nothing and they can’t do anything. Yes, TV stars have to be able to handle something, but you have to give people who are just starting out a bit of a chance.”
On to the Rob bashing then. “Rob Kemps, what is going to happen to it?” Wilfred Genee asks him.
Albert: “Yes, he can do a program every now and then, I think. Suppose AvroTros thinks: we are going to put a kind of Sterren.nl on TV. Well, I imagine he can do that very well, right?”
“That’s all he can do?”
For the good listener: this is an ugly sneer from Albert. Sterren.nl is a kind of fair platform full of hoempapa music. Wilfred is fishing for more sneers: “That’s all he can do?”
Fortunately, Albert allows himself to be lured out of the tent: “I don’t know. You ask me what he could do. A talk show? Yes, then an earpiece falls out and he doesn’t know what to ask, so that’s not him. That Chansons was beautiful, but you can hardly walk through those cemeteries six years in a row. That also ends somewhere.”
“Don’t hurry!”
With that comment about that earpiece, Albert falsely refers to The 10 Questions, the program in which Rob interviewed famous guests. Well, interviewed… He received the questions in real time from star interviewer Antoinnette Scheulderman. Well…
Albert: “And do you remember The Wheel? They invested in that and I think it was supposed to run for eight years, but that was gone after eight episodes. Turned out. I sat in that thing for six hours, it didn’t make any progress.”
Rob’s TV contract with SBS 6 will expire soon and does not appear to be extended.