Catherine Keyl does not think it is right that Beau van Erven Dorens has reacted so angrily to the criticism of his bad interview with Gordon. “I really thought it was a shame.”
It is the low point of Beau van Erven Doren’s TV career: his bizarrely uncritical interview with colleague Gordon. The man who has to interview ministers and ministers on the late evening of RTL 4, allowed Gordon to get away with an ugly accusation against his ex without any contradiction. And with the opening up of a family trauma.
Uncritical Beau
Catherine Keyl thinks it is a serious blemish on Beau’s CV. “I thought it was a real shame that Beau didn’t tackle Gordon in his program – in the sense that he didn’t ask him once: ‘Do you really think it’s never your fault?’” she says in conversation with the Weekend.
People who support Beau point out that Casa di Beau is not journalism, but entertainment. “Of course, it is not an intense journalistic program, but especially with acquaintances or friends you can occasionally ask something critical in a light-hearted manner. It’s weird that Beau didn’t do that once. He really didn’t ask any critical questions.”
Agreed work
Catherine, like media expert Victor Vlam, thinks that Beau has agreed with Gordon not to ask critical questions. “I think it was agreed with Gordon, that he said: ‘I want to tell my story once, but don’t start complaining. If that happens, I’m out of here.’ It must have been something like that.”
Beau is normally bold enough to ask a critical question, right? “Yes, I had that idea with him too. Apparently not.”
No self-criticism
How would Catherine have handled that interview? “More like: ‘Do you really think that you never make a mistake, that you do everything perfectly?’ Or: ‘Do you think that you can always criticize everyone and that no one can criticize you?’”
She concludes: “Gordon pretends to be a victim, but that is of course not right if you always burn everyone down. Then you can expect that people will not be flexible with you either.”