Gordon is heavily attacked by Jordi Versteegden. De Telegraaf journalist thinks Gordon’s revelation that he almost died last week is a ‘cry for attention’.
Stopping injecting insulin without consultation, Gordon says last week almost became fatal. “Nicely naive to think: if you lose that much weight, your diabetes is gone. Not so. Very stupidly stopped injecting insulin (on his own initiative) and almost had to pay for it with death last week,” he wrote yesterday from Thailand.
Grain of salt
Gordon really took all the show media with this revelation, but many people also look at it with some cynicism. This is how the SBS 6 presenter becomes real by GeenStijl totally ridiculed and he now also gets the men of the new showbiz podcast Strikt Privé over him.
Private boss Evert Sankrediets takes Gordon’s claim with a grain of salt. “’Almost dead’ is of course not Gordon’s first. I know he has very bad health that he regularly puts himself at risk and he has now done that.”
Shout for attention
It is simply unwise of Gordon, says Evert. “If you’re diabetic, you shouldn’t suddenly stop taking your medication. He did, because he has the idea that all the sugars he injects make him fat. He would rather not.”
His co-host Jordi Versteegden, entertainment journalist for De Telegraaf, thinks Gordon is after attention. “Yes. He says quite a bit, doesn’t he? ‘I almost died’… I see it more as a cry for attention when I read it that way, but it can of course also be that he inspires people who are in the same situation.”
‘Can’t take criticism!’
Evert points to the tweet by Meiland biographer Jan Dijkgraaf. “As Jan Dijkgraaf said: ‘If Gordon dies of anything, it is a lack of attention.’ I had to chuckle when I read that. Oh, you too?”
Jordi laughs: “Yeah, me too. I hope he can laugh about it too. On the one hand, he takes it all very seriously, but he also finds it difficult to take criticism sometimes, doesn’t he?”
Evert: “Well, for someone who went to live in Dubai because he was tired of it all here, I think we hear a lot from him. Hey?”
Live in the sun
Incidentally, Gordon is still successful in his fight against the kilos and that is of course only to be praised. Why is losing weight so important to him? Evert: “If, like Gordon, you are always in the sun and are always confronted with your body, I can imagine that you think: I’m going to do something about it.”
“He does that regularly, with a lot of fuss. Some times he lasts longer than others. This is a serious effort, but you shouldn’t want to risk your health for it.”
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