The AvroTros, like producer Warner Bros, remains tight-lipped about Tygo Gernandt’s misconduct. Ridiculous, thinks Tina Nijkamp. “It feels like we’re back in 1997!”
We live in a time when transgressive behavior in the TV world is a… hot topic is. All parties have promised improvement and an important part of this is taking victims seriously, learning from mistakes and attaching consequences to misconduct. Why is Tygo Gernandt being held over his head like this?
In the cover-up
Tygo left Flikken Maastricht very suddenly two years ago, supposedly due to private circumstances, but it now appears that misconduct has been covered up. In reality he is according to that Private was summarily dismissed (!) for intimidation, touching private parts and grabbing an employee by the throat.
That employee was so shocked that she had to undergo EMDR therapy, which, according to Privé, was reimbursed by producer Warner Bros or the broadcaster AvroTros. Both parties have received massive calls from journalists this week, but are simply keeping quiet. Why is this still covered up?
Incomprehensible
It is incomprehensible, says TV authority Tina Nijkamp. “If this claim were true, why doesn’t producer Warner Bros respond to the media? Not even a statement. It has an American headquarters. And if this claim is NOT true, why isn’t Warner Bros responding? Isn’t it very strange and also indecent?”
According to her, this is very un-American. She continues on Instagram: “Does their American headquarters even know about this issue and now the Tygo riot? Hiding behind privacy, which Warner did again tonight at Boulevard, is nonsense.”
“It’s not 1997!”
The AvroTros, whose former director Remco van Leen has also been more or less dismissed due to misconduct, also says nothing. “The same applies to AvroTros. Why doesn’t the broadcaster respond???? So not appropriate for this time. It seems like the media world in 1997. Nothing is allowed to come out, everything is covered up. Bizarre.”
Meanwhile, Tygo also remains silent. Awkward, says John van den Heuvel RTL Boulevard. “I do think you have to be transparent in such a story. They say: anyone who is being shaved must sit still, but sometimes there can come a time – especially if your career is so at stake – when you do have to take some responsibility.”
‘Film it!’
Tygo’s ex-girlfriend Dianne van den Eng, one of his victims, filmed a violent incident with him and that has raised suspicion. “You are in shock at such a moment, but I think in my head: the police really advised me: if something happens again, film it,” she explains in Boulevard.
Plausible, says John. “I certainly believe that. The moment you are dealing with domestic violence and you go to the police… That is an advice that can be given, such as: ‘Film when there are more incidents’, so I don’t think that is a strange story.”
Do not take with you
The consequences for Tygo are immediately visible, because the press day of his new children’s film Miss Pots was canceled yesterday. Eddy Zoëy in Boulevard: “As parents, I can imagine that you wouldn’t take your children to that movie with everything that surrounds it.”
Reporter Aran Bade concludes: “Those thoughts will play a role and as long as there is no statement or nothing, then we only know what the stories are now and there seem to be more stories to come.”