Hélène Hendriks still seems unable to return to television. The presenter is still in a wheelchair and only hates ‘small steps’ ahead. “A lot of love sorrow.”
The chance that we will see Hélène Hendriks sitting at the table this summer in her own talk show De Oranjezomer seems very small. As is known, her operation is – there was a nerve clamp in her back – ‘very disappointing’ and her health hardly improves. How do we know? Rutger Castricum has been on a visit.
Heartache
Rutger tells at the table With her substitute Johnny de Mol that the recovery is really very slow. “I was with Hélène, our Hélène. It’s going well. Luckily, small steps forward.”
Then against Johnny: “You are sitting here and that naturally softens the pain, but the heartbreak is still of course.”
A bit sweet
Johnny understands that Hélène is disappointed. “It is not that nothing happens in the world, so she would have wanted to sit here a little bit of course. Well, great that she is doing better.”
Who is also disappointed? Johan Derksen. He thinks Johnny is really doing very poor. “This has been predictable, isn’t it? Because Johnny did HLF8 and he didn’t get it off the ground. Hélène tried it later, you got it out of the ground, but then they pulled out the plug,” he says in the podcast Greetings from Grolloo.
Nice guy
It’s nothing, says Johan. “Johnny is a nice guy who has a lot of qualities. He can handle people very well, he has made wonderful stories with disabled children, he did the travel programs very well. I went to America with him again, that was really a party, but Johnny is not a talk show host.”
“And then someone in that management meeting at Talpa probably suggested: we give it to Johnny, to put the old De Mol. I can imagine that. Something like that will be behind it. And the old De Mol, who should have known that Johnny does not have it. He knows that too, but in one way or another he has been lulled.”
Acid columnists
In the end this is especially harmful to Johnny, Johan concludes. “The result is that Johnny first gets all the sour columnists over him and is now referred to the background with a soft hand, and then that chatty Thomas of Groningen comes there.”
“He finds himself so interesting as the presenter that he only breaks out long -length sentences and preferably the entire program himself full,” he continues. “But it is an improvement. He is not doing badly, but that boy has one disadvantage as a presenter: he is far too happy to hear himself talking.”