Johan Derksen pretty much thinks that you should be able to dismiss pregnant women with immediate effect, but what about if you don’t go to work because of a bowel obstruction?
We had to do without Johan Derksen and his tirades about pregnant women for one evening this week. The TV star was struck in the car on the way to Today Inside by an intestine that got stuck in his inguinal hernia and that was really painful. He had to last minute are replaced by Rutger Castricum.
Expensive evening of illness
An evening later, last Friday, Johan was back at his seat and presenter Wilfred Genee remarked out of nowhere, laughing: “You have to pay if you’re not there!”
Johan: “Yes, a sick evening is very expensive here! Hahaha!”
René van der Gijp screeching: “Have you received your bill yet?”
Wilfred: “We got it in black and white this week! You have to pay Rutger! Just so you know!”
Confusing
Huh, what’s this about? Tina Nijkamp on her analysis channel: “It was a short but very striking moment in VI. Wilfred pointed out that the men of VI have to pay if they are not there. Johan missed Thursday’s broadcast and this week they apparently received a letter at home about it.”
The former boss of SBS 6 continues: “If you don’t show up, part of your salary will be withheld. Very strange arrangement. I haven’t heard about that before in TV land. About compensation per broadcast, but not about refunds if you don’t come. The men themselves seemed to think it was very special.”
‘That’s not allowed’
Tina expects that it will not be the case that Johan will have to go to bed because of his blocked intestine. “I don’t think it is in case of illness, because that is of course not allowed at all.”
That would be very strange, says Rob Goossens at the desk RTL Boulevard. “It sounds like modern slavery. It shouldn’t be the case that Johan sits in the car with a stuck colon and then has to weigh up: okay, if I don’t go now I have to pay back 10 thousand euros! That’s just half a kitchen!”
Small details
There will be something else going on in the background, says Rob. Quite strange, he thinks. “The channel cannot afford to make the men angry about these kinds of details. Even when Johan Derksen is not on the channel, he still earns money for the channel.”
The TV scholar concludes: “It is not that the program scores so well because Rutger Castricum happened to be there. No, the program has grown with Johan and the viewer will tolerate it if he is not there every now and then. In the meantime, the cash register is still ringing.”