Anna Nooshin stands up for Lale Gül. The influencer finds it ridiculous that the opinion maker was attacked by René van der Gijp for posting bikini photos. “He’s 70!”
The mess that Lale Gül has had all over him after posting bikini photos on Kos is enormous, she tells the desk of RTL Tonight. She is back from vacation and brought all the hate comments she has received to the talk show. “That went on for days. Yes, it is a program with a million viewers of course, Today Inside.”
Taliban Inside
René van der Gijp called Lale an exhibitionist. “If you summarize it, it really doesn’t make sense. I was in Kos, I decided to share a bikini photo. Actually, I’ve been doing that every holiday for five years, so that’s nothing new. I always show a fit check in the Netherlands, so you show your outfit, so I also did that on holiday on a beach day.”
“And that suddenly became a riot, because René van der Gijp started calling me an exhibitionist. I responded with a joke that didn’t go down at all, but that is my humor. I said: ‘Hey, leave me alone, Taliban Inside.’ The Taliban is known for its morality police and also interferes with what women wear.”
Talibangela
Lale insists this was “obviously a joke.” “Of course René van der Gijp is not a Taliban. It is inherent to a joke that there is exaggeration in it, just like Albert Verlinde once said at the table here: ‘Talibangela’, about Angela de Jong. I think: they see that, the humor of it, right? But no, they really took it very seriously.”
“It was in that broadcast for minutes afterwards. I was lost, I belonged in an asylum, I was completely off track, Johan was unsure whether he wanted another book with me. I watch that and I look at all those messages I get and I thought: what is this about? I really felt like on that Greek island: am I crazy or are these people crazy?”
Hurtful
It ruined Lale’s vacation. “It is of course just hurtful. I was on holiday with a friend and I always deny that anything affects me, but he said: ‘Since you saw that broadcast and saw those messages, you are no longer like the days before.’ That will get under your skin.”
What does Anna Nooshin, who is also at the desk, think about it? “I think you and I will disagree on many things, but at this point I think it’s ridiculous.”
Anna critical
Anna throws up on the VI trio. “Those men are what? 60 or 70 now? That you are going to say about a young woman what she should or should not post… It’s not that big of a deal and I don’t understand why I could post it and you can’t.”
Lale: “Yes, I don’t understand that either.”
Political journalist Frits Wester: “I think you can post whatever you want. I never see these kinds of things, I don’t look at these kinds of things. You have to know it all yourself. What I do wonder is: why do you do it? (…) You show that and you hope for nice reactions and likes, but you also know that there are people who use this to make fun of you.”
Make a choice
Frits has mixed feelings about it. “You also want to be a serious interpreter and commentator. You have to make a choice. Or you don’t care about it, not even the gentlemen, and do what you want and don’t worry and don’t make yourself the center of this discussion. Do what you want!”
Host Beau van Erven Dorens: “Yes, but she becomes that center because of other people! By older, white people who say: ‘You are not allowed to post this!’”
Frits: “Yes, you can all condemn that, but you know they will do it.”
Fascinating
Anna thinks Lale should continue posting nice bikini photos. “I think you just have to do what you feel good about. I think it’s also fascinating that people apparently don’t believe that someone can have a brain and a good body and that they might want to show that.”
Finally: will Lale’s book with Johan Derksen still continue? The VI mustache has said he has doubts about this. Lale: “It’s actually a very nice book, because it’s about us clashing over certain things he says on the air and a generation difference and so on.”
Johan in swimming trunks
Lale doesn’t know what the status is. “He did indeed say on the air: ‘I don’t know anymore whether I want a book with her.’ That scared me. I’ve already typed 25,000 words. Otherwise I can throw it away.”
Frits decides: “Make sure there is a photo of Johan in swimming trunks!”
