Henny Huisman (74) is still making frantic attempts to return to TV, but Jordi Versteegden really has him stop. “It’s so sad that he keeps pitching all the time.”
Although Henny Huisman has been regarded as a former TV star for years and years, he still tries to sell programs to the TV bigwigs in Hilversum. Is he still unable to put an end to his career? “No, I don’t worry about it,” he says The Telegraph. “People sometimes laugh at the attempts I make to return.”
Wayback show
What does Henny think of that laughing? “They think I’m too old and I should stop talking about it. But I think differently. Making television has never been my job, it was my passion and it still is.”
He recently traveled to Hilversum with a new format. “I had presented the idea to them to make the Wayback show with me. We all know what happened to Gerard Joling and Marco Borsato, but what happened to the dozens of other women, men and children who appeared in front of the cameras in my programs?”
Paving stones
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden thinks it really seems very desperate. “Henny Huisman really wants to continue. He has now pitched The Waybackshow, but he cannot get that out to the paving stones,” he says in Strictly Private.
Colleague Evert Santegoeds said: “It’s well thought out, but I think Henny’s last program was a kind of Glamourland on Friday evening. It wasn’t quite that. It’s Henny and he is always funny, but…”
Jordi: “Of course he also pitched a real-life soap a while ago.”
‘A bit sad’
A real-life soap is not for the Huismannetjes, Evert thinks. “Isn’t that what Lia wants at all? I think forty years after the Playback Show, Henny has to draw the conclusion: it was nice.
Jordi: “We love Henny so much, but at the same time: there is something so sad about him that he keeps pitching all the time. I think: be proud of what you have achieved.”
Evert: “Yes, his career was certainly not bad, but it ended quite early compared to Jos Brink, Ron Brandsteder and that generation. Henny’s career quickly came to a standstill…”