Jan Slagter boycotted Wilfred Genee for a while after jokes were made in VI about his alleged affair with Lilian Marijnissen. “You understand that I don’t want to meet you, right?”
Broadcaster MAX boss Jan Slagter filled the Private page of De Telegraaf for no fewer than three days in a row in February 2016. He is said to have had an affair with SP celebrity Lilian Marijnissen, 31 years his junior. Countless jokes were made about it, even by Mark Rutte. Ridiculous, Jan thought. He decided to deny the affair.
VI screamed for Jan
While Jan was quite annoyed, the men of VI were having the most fun about the alleged affair. “It’s also annoying if you’re already living in a senior home at the age of thirty, isn’t it? That doesn’t make you happy either, hahahaha,” René van der Gijp screeched.
And Johan Derksen: “Jan Slagter is a man in his 60s and I have daughters in the age of Jan Marijnissen, but I would not feel comfortable at home if I knew that my daughter Jan Slagter was having sex. *pen.”
Canceled
Wilfred Genee was laughing along and that had serious consequences, he now reveals BNR News Radio. He has Jan Slagter in the studio there. “You don’t like canceling and stuff like that at all? That people are being cancelled? You also canceled me once!”
Jan: “Yes, but I’m sitting opposite you now, right?”
Wilfred: “Yes, but then you canceled me because you were angry about a joke.”
“What joke?”
Jan would rather not talk about that anymore. “Yes, I don’t even remember what it was about exactly.”
Wilfred reminds him of that. “Yes, Johan once made a joke about Lilian Marijnissen, we laughed very hard about that and then I wanted to come to your place with a good friend of mine, who had a very nice program idea, and then you said…”
Jan: “From: ‘Fuck off.’”
Laugh along
Wilfred states that Jan was really very angry. “Yes, you said, ‘I don’t want that.’ I even took the letter with me.”
Jan: “Really? You have it with you too!”
Wilfred: “It came down to saying: ‘You were laughing and you also had it put back on Twitter and you were just laughing along! So I just don’t want to see you!’ That’s what you say. “You understand that I don’t want to meet you, right?” you simply say. While we just knew each other!”
Friend welcome
Jan states that that is not too bad. “Well, we didn’t know each other that well.”
Wilfred: “No, but I had visited a few times with my wife, with that book, with Feeding and Filling and so on. We had been in touch a few times. ‘By the way, your good friend is very welcome with his idea.’”
Jan: “Yes, yes.”
Wilfred: “Yes, I thought that was neat.”
Don’t come
Jan confirms that this is how it happened. “Yes, but you didn’t have to come!”
Wilfred: “No, I didn’t have to show my face anymore. But that’s over now?”
Jan confirms that. “Yes, I’m sitting across from you.”