Daphne Bunskoek finds it totally unbelievable that Ruud de Wild keeps saying that he actually didn’t want to make his flop soap at all. “Like you are being forced to!”
Over the years we have seen quite a few celebrity soaps pass by, but those of Olcay Gulsen and Ruud de Wild are very empty. And then it will also be broadcast on NPO 1; critics find it unbelievable. The prevailing opinion: their lives are not interesting enough at all and they are too narcissistic to likeable to be.
Crosshead Ruud
Ruud tries to save his credibility a bit by pretending he didn’t want to make that real-life soap at all. He claims he wanted to quit after three days. “I thought it would be a nice experiment, and it was. And yes, I am very sorry about it,” the radio maker said in the AD.
Striking, Luuk Ikink thinks. He says in the RTL Boulevardbroadcast last night: “Ruud often indicates, as a kind of huge crosshead in the program, that he does not feel like recording it at all. He quickly got tired of the camera crew.”
Daphne skeptical
Rob Goossens thinks that Ruud would have done everyone a big favor if he had just stopped. “If only he had kicked them out, because then they would have been spared this misery.”
Colleague Daphne Bunskoek does not believe Ruud at all. “It is of course very strange that you pretend you don’t want it and you do. As if you were forced by the viewer to give an insight into your life!”
Rob: “Yes, you could have just said: ‘We don’t participate in this nonsense.’”
Rattling series
It is a disaster for the image of Ruud and Olcay, Rob believes. “If you then see that Olcay left us, at Boulevard, to start making more in-depth programs… She then made two programs about domestic violence, both of which were just really beautiful and in which you saw her from a new side …”
He continues: “Ruud made Diagnosis De Wild about, of course, what happened after he got his diagnosis. That was so good that I just don’t understand why you are now tempted to make such a superficial, rattling reality series.”
Olcay responds
Why didn’t Ruud and Olcay just pull the plug when he supposedly didn’t want to anymore?
Olcay says about this in the AD: “Continuously all those people around us, I knew that in addition to radio, his podcast and the art business, this would be too much for Ruud. They were always there and you can’t just stop playing.”