Gordon has caused high emotions at the Shownieuws desk. His media bestie Thom Goderie came into conflict with critic Jordi Versteegden. “I’ll grab the popcorn!”
Most people will not notice it, but Gordon still makes a program on Radio 10. The listening figures are not doing very well. Or, like it A.D the day before yesterday the headline read: ‘Radio 10 collapses with Gordon and Froukje’. It has now been announced that Thom Goderie, the slimy butt of Shownieuws, will get a column in his media friend’s program.
Mustache
After an item about Gordon’s morning show, Jordi notices Versteegden at the desk Show news notice that the entertainer has a new mustache. “I see he’s growing his mustache. I see he has a mustache these days.”
Thom immediately reacts pissed off: “Is that your first conclusion? That he has a moustache? After a whole item about a wonderful radio program?”
Jordi: “Oh yes, you think so? I regularly listen professionally and because I think it is important to give it a chance.”
‘How sour!’
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker thinks that this is a nice boost for the listening figures. “They’ll be happy about that,” he notes sarcastically.
Thom angrily: “Well, what sourness!”
Presenter Airen Mylene: “Do you believe in it? Do you think: this will really work?”
Jordi: “Well, look, the difficult thing is also, and we have talked about this more often at the table: Gordon has lost a bit of the sympathy factor. Yes, I think it is just very difficult for him to get it back.”
‘Disagree!’
Thom cannot agree with that. “Well, I don’t agree with you, Jordi.”
Jordi: “Yes, but you know him very well.”
Thom: “When was the last time you actually interviewed and spoke to him?”
Jordi: “Well, that’s no longer possible, because he doesn’t allow it.”
Thom: “That’s strange, isn’t it? As a journalist I find it strange that you criticize someone, but don’t interview him.”
Jordi: “No, that’s nonsense. You’re not listening!”
Popcorn
Thom is really pissed. “Can I talk about the radio for a moment, please?”
Jordi: “I really want to talk to him, but he doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. That’s very different, Thom, than me not wanting to talk to him.”
Thom then points to the sorry conversation that Jordi had with Goor: “I think the last time you interviewed him was in his real-life soap. That was a completely different tone than at the moment.”
Guido: “Anyone have popcorn, guys?”
Ekdom
Thom thinks the negative attention for Gordon is lame. “You have to find out who you are, but they fell into Gerard Ekdom’s hole. He had a lot of loyal listeners. He went to Veronica. Then it is logical that they do not immediately score Gerard Ekdom’s figures. That also takes some building. They are relatively young on the radio.”
Guido: “Yes, but Gerard Ekdom is really a radio producer, right? What you often see with celebrities who are offered a show – and that is Gordon and Froukje, they are not originally radio producers – is that they often find it a bit too much. These are those celebrities who are given a show. Gerard Ekdom is someone who grew up with radio.”
Press day
Jordi still wants to talk about that secretly recorded sorry conversation with Gordon. “Look, Gordon started filming there, even though it had not been agreed… I didn’t know they were being filmed.”
Thom: “It was a Talpa press day. There was only filming.”
Jordi: “Yes, but not for his soap specifically. I was not told that and I was really disappointed about that, because at that moment we indeed had something to talk about with each other.”
Sunshine
Then there is an item about Gordon taking his girlfriend Tineke de Nooij to South Africa. Thom fiercely: “About the sympathy, right? Someone who puts someone in the spotlight so nicely? Please, just give it a chance! You immediately reject it again, the program!”
Jordi: “I don’t think you really listened to what I said.”
Thom: “I listen very well.”
Goodwill
Ronald Molendijk puts Thom in his place. “Can I say something? Gordon has simply lost a lot of goodwill, especially because he often makes promises. ‘I’m opening a record label’, ‘I’m opening Rotterdam’, and not all his promises come true. I think at a certain point the listener is like: let’s see it and we’ll slowly catch up.”
“By the way, I don’t think he makes those promises to screw people, but just out of his enthusiasm. ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that, I’m going to sister!’ I think a lot of potential listeners are like: well, just show it for a year and then maybe we’ll catch up.”