Ruud de Wild tackles all his critics one by one. Really everyone with a critical opinion about him and his beloved Olcay Gulsen has a turn, this time Jan Slagter. “What a fossil!”
You would think that Ruud de Wild, as a media veteran, can now deal with some criticism left and right, but nothing could be further from the truth. He lashes out at everything and everyone that even produces a slightly critical note. Even Jan Slagter, who has given a nuanced opinion about the low viewing figures of Ruud & Olcay, is now up.
Criticism from Jan
Jan finds it laughable that NPO 1 boss Remco van Westerloo has defended Ruud & Olcay’s low viewing figures by saying that it would all score online. With today’s knowledge – according to Ruud Remco rushed through his soap himself – that is understandable, but of course it is not very credible.
The boss of Omroep MAX sneered at a talk show table: “Then do it online! Of course he has to say something. I understand that, but 348 thousand viewers on NPO 1, the major channel that is watched by at least 700, 800 thousand or preferably a million people, that is just not possible.”
“You’re a fossil!”
We now know from Ruud that he does not tolerate any criticism and that is why Jan is now being beaten up. The angry radio DJ roars into his podcast 30 Minutes Raw: “We are quite a hit on NPO Start. Yes, that is the new world. I am also proud of that.”
He continues: “And then a fossil like Jan Slagter can find all sorts of things about it. Yes, it also makes sense that he likes everything about it. NPO is his net, he thinks. And he is the boss of NPO, he thinks. So yes, that makes sense. And that struggle will always be there.”
‘Super k*t!’
By now you’re starting to wonder if Ruud can’t just drop by the house psychologist of his broadcaster PowNed, because it’s all very high for him. What bothers him the most? “That I think it’s great that such a Remco van Westerloo, the boss of NPO 1, sticks his neck out, wants to show us, and that we just ruined it.”
And which criticism did he find most difficult? “Angela de Jong touched me. She touched me precisely because of what she really wrote. Angela de Jong said: ‘I don’t recognize Olcay and Ruud as I know them.’ And then I thought, f*ck, f*ck, I was mad at us. Then I thought: oh, what have we left something here. We made a mistake there.”
Battered man
Ruud has been demolished. Scrapped. “I consider myself a battered person.”
His sweetheart Olcay: “But have you become even more battered from this?”
Ruud: “Yes, I think so.”
Olcay: “I find that pathetic, it touches me. I feel sorry for you.”