Johan Derksen thinks that Carlo Boszhard and his colleagues from Married At First Sight make irresponsible TV. “The viewing figures are important and for the rest they don’t care about you.”
Married At First Sight is Carlo Boszhard’s successful dating show in which people marry complete strangers. They are matched by experts and they meet for the first time in front of the altar. And at the end of the ride, almost all candidates sign the divorce papers again.
Crazy on TV
What a retarded television, says Johan Derksen. He says in Inside today: “I really hate that Married At First Sight. I think that’s tempting grown people to do something really stupid in life. Irresponsibly stupid, because you don’t know your partner. Well, you get to know those women after three days, you know. You don’t, do you?”
Hélène Hendriks points to the candidates’ own responsibility. “Come on! They choose that for themselves, don’t they?”
Johan: “Yes, they choose that themselves, but should you encourage it? Aren’t they crazy if they do that?”
Irresponsible
Johan believes that the candidates should be protected against themselves. “A door opens, then a bitch in a wedding dress comes in and you have to sit there for the rest of your life. Why are you participating in that?”
Carlo and his colleagues get a big slap on the fingers from Johan. “It is of course irresponsible, Wilfred, I think, even as a TV producer, to stage something like that, because you know that if you have ten marriages there, nine will fail. You only have nice TV and ratings. Then I think: does the end justify all means?”
‘Do not agree with’
Hélène opposes it. “No, I don’t agree. Those people are grown up and give themselves up for that. You know the situation they’re in. They are also supervised.”
Johan: “At the TV you are guided? The ratings are important and otherwise they don’t care about you. And when you’re an adult, you don’t participate in that.”