Benjamin Kat is one of the faces of the Jeugdjournaal. Then you can’t be found in an alley during King’s Night? That doesn’t happen, he says.
As a presenter of Kindevision, Benjamin Kat also has to take a certain responsibility in his private life. And on his Instagram page he certainly cannot show everything he may do. “I mean: during King’s Night you can’t be puking in an alley,” a journalist from the VARAGids explains.
Puke
That’s right, says Benjamin. “Haha, no that is certainly not possible. I am always recognized on the street by children and I also know from which they know me, so I am always aware of that. Even when I want to buy a few alcohol -free beers in the supermarket and I am spotted, I think: I will come back later.”
He says he is seriously. “Yes, I have to give a good example. That is always in the back of my mind. As a business card of the Jeugdjournaal, children feel that they know me – well.”
Kind
Benjamin is a kind of child friend. “Not as a father or mother figure, but as a kind of teacher or master. You don’t want to see them walking around drunk somewhere. I have to present something other than I am.”
“That’s your fate,” said the Varagids.
He then: “Yes, but it’s okay, you know.”
Hot left
Two pages for the interview with Benjamin complains media aritor Victor Vlam that the NPO and the journalists who work there are so left. What about the Jeugdjournaal star? “I come from a warm, left-oriented family, my parents had the VARA and VPRO guide and voted PvdA and GroenLinks.”
That is why he also ended up with the news, he concludes. “We talked – and talk – extensively about politics and the news at home.”