Wilfred Genee is quite insulted by Robbyn Jansen, presenter of the AD, and according to Angela de Jong he is absolutely not happy about that. “I can already tell you that.”
Presenter Robbyn Jansen makes all kinds of programs for the AD website and one of them, Spot Opis about the lack of success of Wilfred Genee as a solo presenter. And that lady from the newspaper introduces the item very falsely. “Wilfred Genee, a success within Today Inside, a shadow outside,” she begins.
Derksen-dependent
According to Robbyn, Wilfred cannot do without VI at all. “The Silver Televizier Star for best presenter in 2017 seemed to seal his success, but outside the safe haven of VI he mercilessly falls through the ice.”
“Café Hendriks & Genee flopped, Veronica Offside disappeared silently and the Today Inside Oranje Quiz received the title of the worst program of the year. Mocking the Johan Derksen dependence on Wilfred Genee.”
“He doesn’t like it!”
AD supreme diva Angela de Jong is in Robbyn’s studio and states that Wilfred is definitely pissed off about this. “He’s not going to like that whole introduction of you. I can already tell you that.”
Robbyn: “Hahahaha.”
Angela: “Yes, what kind of presenter is he? Yes, I would actually dare to call him the Ischa Meijer of our time, because he dares to ask questions mercilessly, but also because he senses exactly where his opponent’s pain lies.”
Intuition
Wilfred is always looking for the pain points, says Angela. “If he smells that, where there is something, he can flick away his entire script and then he only wants to continue with that. That is very important, that intuition as an interviewer. On the other hand, he is not like that for the general public likeable is.”
“You also saw it again in the last riot they had at VI. Johan Derksen walks away and who is to blame? Wilfred Genee, because that is the one who is sick, while Johan is the one who runs away as a toddler. And therein lies the problem that he is simply not such a success solo.”
‘Very unfortunate’
Angela herself sees a lot of potential in Wilfred. “I personally think it is a great shame that they are with SBS. Look, I understand that they went there, because they were no longer comfortable with RTL. They could earn a fortune from John de Mol, which they still do. Very logical.”
“If they had still been at RTL, he would have had Videoland and he would not have had to be on the channel, but would have had many more opportunities to make a program on Videoland with, for example, former athletes. Then he could have worked there on a slightly different side.”