Renze Klamer often pays attention to the hardening of society, but with the choice of Maxim Hartman as a sidekick, he participates just as hard, according to Angela de Jong.
Maxim Hartman is known as someone who makes pretty extreme statements, purely to shock. RTL 4 presenter Renze Klamer likes to give a big stage there by performing him as a regular sidekick in his talk show. But Angela de Jong thinks that is a wrong and somewhat rancid choice.
Bad music
The authoritative column of Angela today is largely dominated by an inappropriate statement that Maxim made last night in Renze’s talk show. The talk show host received the new Eurovision bobo Twan van de Nieuwenhuijzen and gave Maxim ample space to insult him.
Maxim hijacked the conversation by expressing his disgust at the song feast. “Why is the whole Eurovision Song Contest so horrible? Why are all those songs held hostage by camp-like, terrible music? It is not to be heard.”
Shoot
Renze: “That’s taste, Maxime. What kind of question is this?”
Maxim: “No, that’s not taste. It’s just bad music. On average, when you pop into it, you think: what kind of noise is that?”
Table guest Jaap van Reesema: “I think half of the acts… I completely agree with you.”
Maxim: “That must be shot.”
Renze: “Well, just act normal, dude…”
Maxim: “Well, sort of, sort of.”
Renze: “You can’t say that.”
Angela responds
Angela de Jong does not think this is possible and holds Renze partly responsible for it, because of course he also knows that Maxim often calls and has called this kind of thing.
Admittedly, the AD diva heard that Maxim was quick to add ‘by way of’. “Yet. He did say so. Out loud. At a talk show table where Peter R. de Vries often sat. At a time when people are increasingly willing to issue death threats via social media or casually show up at a politician’s doorstep with a torch or running tractors.”
Get rid of it
Get rid of it, Angela advises Renze. “If we are going to hold national preliminary rounds, then please for table gentlemen with more brains and a sense of responsibility than Maxim Hartman.”
Angela’s AD column you can read here.