Hélène Hendriks gave a spicy sneer to the somewhat megalomaniac folk singer André Hazes Jr. in Today Inside last night. “You will never be as big as your father!”
Completely out of the blue, Hélène Hendriks brought it up herself last night in Today Inside: the five-part documentary series about André Hazes Jr. The news is now gone, but she has only now watched it. “I’ve seen it and I think it’s really pathetic,” said the presenter.
‘bit sad’
pathetic? In what sense. “Pathful in the sense that he is quite in a bind. He has quite the urge to prove, because he wants to be very much like his father. To be better than his father. I thought it was a little sad.”
Colleague Johan Derksen: “Don’t you think it’s a bit of exploiting your own misery?”
Hélène: “Yes, but on the other hand: it wasn’t made, and I think that’s good for a documentary.”
Not achieved much
Wilfred Genee thinks the attention for André junior is a bit exaggerated. “This is about a boy who is 28 and I don’t think he has achieved as much as his father, right? To measure it so broadly.”
René van der Gijp to Hélène: “You know what it is, dear, of course you always have problems. Setting the bar high is not so bad in itself, but setting the bar too high doesn’t make anyone happy. He’s not going to touch that, not in the days of his life.”
‘He doesn’t get better’
Hélène: “I think it’s especially pathetic that you want to follow your father like that and become so much better than him.”
René: “But that makes no sense, because he won’t be.”
Then Hélène shares her hard-core opinion: “No, he won’t, no.”
Johan: “His father had a unique voice and he is a defective singer. That’s a difference he never catches up with.”
