René van der Gijp contradicts that he still finds Rutger Castricum ‘an arrogant l*l’. “I did think that once when I was watching HLF8, but that was a long time ago.”
It is quite striking: Rutger Castricum is now a regular guest in Today Inside, but it was less than a year and a half ago that René van der Gijp really went wild on him. “Everything is really wrong about that, isn’t it?” he bellowed in VI. “He has a wrong head, a wrong voice, a wrong tone and he is such an arrogant l * l dude, that guy.”
“Do you think he’s a l*l?”
However, according to media expert Victor Vlam, who is also a part-time body language expert, René’s attitude betrays that he still thinks Rutger is an l*l. “Normally René is very touchy. He always puts his hand on the guest’s shoulder. He does that with Eus, with Hélène Hendriks. With all those people. He does not do that at Rutger.”
Wilfred Genee wants clarity on this. He asks René in the broadcast from last night: “Do you actually think it’s a l*l, that Rutger, or ehhh?”
René: “Well, I did when I was watching HLF8. But I got it… It’s been a while, you know. That was at the beginning.”
‘No no no no’
Wilfred: “But now there was a suspicion that you still think he’s a huge l*l.”
René: “No, no, no, no, no. That was then. I think someone is a l*l if he does something that I think: you shouldn’t do that.”
Wilfred: “He doesn’t do that anymore. He is now very nice, demure…”
Rutgers responds
What does Rutger think about the fact that René used to think he was a l*l? “I also remember that I drove home after HLF8 and that I didn’t think it was very good of myself and that my father already called: this was not good,” he says in the VI nap section. “It was about the skaters and I kind of had a joke about those skaters not performing.”
That was really a joke, says Rutger. “Only I forgot to laugh, which made it seem like I really thought it. Then I drove home and thought it was bad. Then you’re tired, it doesn’t work or you don’t do it right. I do that regularly. I am always critical of that, yes.”
Out of the world
Rutger also disagrees with Victor’s criticism that he lets himself be walked on too much. “Then I read somewhere that I should have gotten mad at you for asking me to do my smile. But when I get angry, it is again: he distributes, but he cannot collect.”
Wilfred: “Your presence generates a lot of reactions. More than other people, I notice. Everyone has an opinion about it. Either he isn’t himself, or René van der Gijp thinks he’s an l*l. That’s why I asked right at the start, then we got it out of the world.”
From Monday, Rutger will also regularly join VI substitute Marcel & Gijs.