Eva Jinek receives a verbal slap on the fingers from Jan Uriot. The star journalist of Privé finds it strange that she attacks his good friend Bert Huisjes so hard. “She ran the polonaise with him!”
Private star Jan Uriot is good friends with Bert Huisjes, the discredited director of broadcaster WNL. Due to his nauseating behavior he temporarily resigned, but experience shows that in reality this almost always leads to a permanent resignation. Tough for Bert, and Jan supports him. “We do have contact every now and then.”
‘Don’t recognize it’
It is a strange story, says Jan. “I don’t recognize what is being said by Eva Jinek, Merel Westrik, Leonie ter Braak and Roos Moggré. I don’t recognize it,” he says in the podcast Strictly Private.
Jan had a column in the WNL morning show for some time. “I didn’t just sit at the table there and give my talk about show business every week. I have had to deal with the technology there, with the editorial staff and with the make-up artist, and I have never once thought that something was wrong there.”
Polonaise
Eva’s credibility and that of her colleagues is openly questioned by the reportedly 76-year-old Jan. “We even had parties where all those presenters I just mentioned were there, because I worked there at that time, and the polonaise was held there with Bert. Then I think: ehh…”
Colleague Jordi Versteegden, reporter for De Telegraaf: “Yes, but Jan, there has also been a Van Rijn report. 94 percent of WNL employees say that they do not feel comfortable there.”
‘Listening well!’
Jan then snaps at his colleague: “I’m not saying that it isn’t the case, am I? I say that I don’t recognize it, because I don’t have that experience myself. Listening well.”
According to Jan, it is fine that Bert has stepped down temporarily, but he does not think he has to leave permanently. “Why should he resign? He can also improve his life. I think he also realizes that I have not handled certain things well verbally.”
Years later
All in all, Jan joins Bert and the dinosaurs in his Supervisory Board. “I’m always amazed that things only come out years later. It doesn’t seem familiar to me.”
And that pregnancy discrimination by Bert? According to Jan, we shouldn’t take this so seriously. “I can imagine that as editor-in-chief you think: oh good, that’s going to disappear too.”