Beau van Erven Dorens believes that Wilfred Genee has failed as presenter of Today Inside. The show has gone into a huge media frenzy under his leadership. “Why didn’t he intervene?”
According to many critics, the 48-hour candle riot around Today Inside that led to an abrupt end of the program could have been prevented. That opinion is shared by Beau van Erven Dorens, who also points to the role of Wilfred Genee in the whole. He said he should have intervened.
Beau critical
Beau especially thinks that Johan Derksen should have just said sorry for his slip. “If this petulant old man had just said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’, but wholeheartedly… I’ve also made a lot of blunders and that’s something you have to feel from within yourself, like: I think I’m a crossed the border and this is very painful.”
Wilfred let it run its course, Beau analyzes. “Apparently there is very little self-cleaning capacity there. I also thought that in that discussion that evening. I also thought it was a pity that Wilfred Genee, who feels that way to me anyway, didn’t intervene and said: ‘Johan, you have to dim, take that back for a while, think about it for a while.’ There was a lot of laughter about it and that was quite painful.”
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When Beau’s dinner guest Derk Sauer shouts that John de Mol should have fired the VI trio immediately, Beau jumps on the defense for the media billionaire. “I don’t often stand up for John de Mol, you know, but of course he just tried through a kind of e-mail: ‘You have to apologize, because this is just not possible.’”
The VI gentlemen should have come up with a better mea culpa afterwards, Beau believes. Repentance has been shown, but: “Then you really have to look between the lines and it was not warm either.”
Wide media offer
A return of VI would be disastrous for Beau’s ratings. Yet he is not against it. “In the Netherlands, we naturally like a wide range of media. I like that they’re coming back because everyone should just have their own channel, have their own people. Even if it’s football humor.”
“Obviously there are certain things that are morally very bad and I hope that maybe on Monday’s episode they come back to this at length and come up with a little introspection.”
Woke enemy
Beau hopes that the men will no longer play the victim role. “That’s creating the wok enemy and the cancel enemy that just isn’t there in my opinion.”
Anyway: canceling is not the solution, according to him. “If you’re successful, it shouldn’t be an excuse for being morally abject. But to cancel the entire program forever…”
