Danny Nelissen, cycling commentator at NOS Sport, does not want to respond to the transgressive behavior that former colleague Marijn de Vries experienced at De Avondetappe. “I’m not going to respond now.”
On Friday, just before the Volkskrant revelations about NOS Sport came out, Marijn de Vries posted an intense column about her summer at the cycling talk show of the broadcaster: De Avondetappe. She describes how she had to listen to dirty talk from a colleague during countless car rides, who wouldn’t stop talking about ‘bitch f*cks’.
Dirty chatterbox
Her assertiveness was not appreciated: Marijn was transferred to another car, but her job at the NOS was more or less over. And that ‘dirty chatterbox’, as she calls that colleague? He just stayed at the table with the cycling program of Dione de Graaff and Herman van der Zandt.
The name of the colleague in question was not mentioned by Marijn – after all, it is her story and her experience – but it was immediately clear to everyone in the world who was involved. Sports journalist Maarten Kolsloot, who sat at the table with Jinek last Friday, now mentions in it Noordhollands Dagblad his name: cycling commentator Danny Nelissen.
Filed a complaint
According to the newspaper, a complaint has been filed with the NOS against Danny for transgressive behavior. “These are unwanted and sexually tinted comments towards his then colleague Marijn de Vries. The complaint has been known to the management of the NOS since the beginning of 2022 and since 2016 to executives at the sports editors.
The four-member editor-in-chief of NOS Sport decided to resign last night, but the general director of NOS, Gerard Timmer, did not. However, according to the newspaper, this broadcasting boss, who was previously BNNVARA boss during the heyday of De Wereld Draait Door, was also aware of this complaint and did not take any measures.
Danny is silent
The Limburger said he spent the whole weekend trying to get a reply from Danny Nelissen himself. He finally called back last night saying, “I’m not going to respond now.”
He says he is waiting for ‘further information’. “Once I’ve looked at everything, my reaction will follow. That could be tomorrow, next week or next month. I choose my moment.”
Finally, he lets slip: “There are a lot of people who were not in that car at the time, but who have shouted all sorts of things in recent days.”
Fragment
NOS commentator Maarten Ducrot thinks that his broadcaster should just name and number, including Danny’s: