Gordon is not happy that criticism has been expressed in Today Inside about his incredibly false performance. “F*ck them,” he shouts angrily. What Hélène Hendriks thinks about that? “So sour!”
Self-reflection is clearly not Gordon’s strong suit. The singer has ridiculed candidates who sing out of tune for years in programs such as Idols and X Factor, but now that it is his turn after a very bad performance, he is on his hind legs. He is furious that the men of VI have laughed at him on television.
Close to the ground
Gordon doesn’t like it. He starts talking about it on his own at the table Time for MAX. “You know what I hate so much these days? That you are undermined even without having heard anything, you know, like what happened very lamely at VI last week.”
It is a very false trick, says Goor. “The fact that they show rehearsal footage while you are still working on your sound and your ears… Then I think: people, how incredibly low to the ground it is.”
To conclude with: “F*ck them.”
Fooled
Wilfred Genee comes back to it a little later at the beginning of Today Inside. “Nice start to Mell & Vintage Future. That is slightly different from Gordon when you listen like that and I just listened to the rehearsal and it sounded excellent too.”
Colleague René van der Gijp finds Gordon’s reaction very telling. “It’s nice, isn’t it, a man who has been fooling everyone for thirty years and then says that what we do is so low to the ground! Hahahahaha!”
Hélène critical
By the way, Gordon lies about it being a rehearsal, according to Wilfred. “We also thought: how strange, could it have been a rehearsal? So we asked the people who made the images, but it was not a rehearsal. The team was probably allowed in when there was a performance.”
Table guest Hélène Hendriks finds Gordon’s reaction incredible. “If you’re a little smart and you know how the media world works, you say: ‘It was indeed completely fake, but when it went to the real thing it was flawless, but you weren’t there!’ Make a joke of it! But if you react so harshly…”
Very pathetic
Political reporter Sam Hagens thinks Gordon is a pathetic man. “It’s actually very sad, isn’t it? He just can’t handle you killing him. He just can’t handle it. It’s sad.”
Aran Bade confirms RTL Boulevard that they were indeed not rehearsal images. “It was recorded live there during the show, so it’s not true that it was just rehearsal. That’s a lame argument. You always have to put the ball in your hands and Gordon handled it wrong.”
‘Could be live!’
A colleague of Aran tried to get Gordon in front of the camera after the broadcast of Tijd voor MAX. “We were just there, because of course we wanted to speak to Gordon. He was pushed into the car by Jan Slagter himself, because he knew we were there and he drove away. Then I think: come outside for a moment.”
Gordon is said to be on crutches and has a knee problem, Aran said. “And his performance at Tijd voor MAX was supposed to be live, but we realized that it was a pre-recording after all. He was already there at 2 p.m. Apparently there are so many nerves in him that he thinks: I just don’t want to get wet live on the channel…”