Britt Dekker and Rob Kemps arouse a lot of annoyance with their TV colleague Luuk Ikink with their refusal attitude. He calls their behavior ‘absurd’, but: “What are you actually interfering with?”
SBS 6 will be broadcasting a walking competition after the summer, but apparently the format is very disappointing. According to Britt Dekker, many presenters of the channel, including herself, have rejected this program. In addition to herself, this includes Noa Vahle and Rob Kemps, the presenter claims.
“It’s absurd!”
Luuk Ikink, the presenter of hit show RTL Boulevard, finds this incomprehensible. He calls into the BLVD Podcast: “I think it’s really absurd that all those people at SBS have turned that down. Then I really think: you have ambition, don’t you? There will be a primetime program!”
Colleague Rob Goossens understands the doubts about this show. “But it will be a competition around walking! If there’s one thing that isn’t competitive, it’s walking. If you try a little bit, it will be a quick walk or run. So the whole idea of competition doesn’t make sense with walking.”
Damn
Luke then: “No, okay. But look, we haven’t seen the program yet. I can imagine that when those people from SBS come to a presenter, they explain that format and you think: damn it, I have nothing at all now, this is prime time, in any case: a large-scale program… Then you go there right for?”
He really doesn’t understand Britt and Rob. “I find it so strange that no one at SBS has said: well I want to do that. Nobody raised the finger and then they had to go to RTL, to Jamie Trenité and he said – I didn’t talk to him about it, by the way: ‘Of course I’m going to do that.’ Yes, I understand that very well.”
“Don’t be so afraid!”
It’s brave of Jamie, Luuk thinks. “If it flops, so what? Then it flops. Then you have tried it anyway and then you have gained new experience, you have seized new opportunities. You have shown that you might be able to do something. I don’t understand that at all. Can’t you just try something once? Don’t be so afraid of a flop.”
Rob: “Well, amen. Either people are too comfortable with saying no to things at SBS 6. Or they have given up hope to such an extent that they think: well, this doesn’t matter anymore.”
Waiting for Voice
Luuk thinks that all those TV stars have too high expectations. “Everyone just waits for a kind of The Voice of Holland. Like: here’s The Voice of Holland, that’s what we’re going to do. But a successful format that you know for sure will score… Yes, everyone wants to present that. That makes sense of course.”
He continues: “But yes, it is also taking risks when you present. I think it is a beautiful, good, smart and brave decision by Jamie Trenité that he has done that and I wish him a great success. That would be nice for him.”
“What are you meddling in?”
Gijs Groenteman does not understand why Luuk speaks so strongly about this. “What are you doing, Luuk Ikink?”, he says in the talk show Marcel & Gijs.
Colleague Marcel van Roosmalen: “I think that all the time with Luuk Ikink: what are you interfering with? That whole RTL Boulevard program, I think about it: what are you interfering with? They worry about everything. It’s never news that bothers me. There is then so-called fuss and then Luuk Ikink thinks that.”
Gijs sarcastically: “I think: it’s an SBS affair. It is something that we have to worry about in our company together.”