Edwin Evers finds it ‘tasteless’ that Johan Derksen said on television a month and a half ago that 18-year-old Princess Alexia has a ‘nice ass’. “But he can say it.”
Johan Derksen makes bold statements and a month and a half ago he also caused quite a controversy by saying, as a 74-year-old man, that 18-year-old Princess Alexia has a ‘nice ass’. Critics found it a bit gross that an elderly man would say something like that about a girl who has only just reached adulthood.
Tasteless
How does Edwin Evers view this? “He can say it, but yes, whether it is so chic…,” he says in Mischa Blok’s radio show on NPO Radio 1.
Mischa also finds it doubtful. “’Nice ass,’ he said. ‘Nice ass,’ he said about Princess Alexia.”
Edwin has mixed feelings about it. “Yes, I think he can say it, but I think it’s tasteless. That doesn’t mean I couldn’t laugh about it, because I also know the setting they are in and how that works.”
Setting
Bottom line, you just can’t make it, says Edwin. “You shouldn’t take it all too seriously and you shouldn’t push it too hard. Look, we can also blow it up to a huge size and make it into a gigantic thing. But yes, yes, then I also think: every now and then you have to look at the setting a bit. Anyway, it’s tasteless.”
According to Mischa, Edwin’s opinion is relevant because he has created a podcast series with Alexia’s father, King Willem-Alexander. “Are you now the regular podcast maker of the Royal Family?”
Edwin: “I think so, yes. Hahaha.”
Excellent idea
Mischa wonders: “Will there just be a series every year, but with someone different each time?”
Edwin: “That seems like an excellent idea to me. No, this was just really fun to do for once. Was I nervous? No, did it sound like that? I heard people say that. Of course there were a lot of people who thought something of that.”
Uncritical
Many people thought Edwin was not critical enough. “Many journalists thought it was not journalistic and many royalty experts thought it was a shame that I had not asked such and such a question.”
He concludes: “Of course they all wanted to sit there themselves, I understand that, and they perhaps had much more right to do so than I did. But they also thought they heard that I was very nervous, but that was not the case at all.”