Nowadays we know Johan Derksen as a somewhat basic man, but once that was really very different, says René van der Gijp. “He used to be the nicest man in the world, right?”
Johan Derksen is known as today’s somewhat basketed moped Learing Inside with a distinct opinion about everything and everyone, from nitrogen to Heleen van Royen. He has a great success as a grumbling talk show veteran, but René van der Gijp knows him from far before he was on television. And then Johan was a very different man …
Nicer
There are few people who have known Johan for as long as René. “I was fourteen, so I have known him for fifty years,” he says in the podcast As long as it’s fun.
Wilfred Genee on that: “And he has always been like that? That monoman also what he has?”
René: “Yes. And I don’t know if I can tell you, but I will tell you … Yes, can I tell? His daughter has told me that Johan was the nicest man in the world, isn’t it?”
Focus on work
His daughter Marieke Derksen has seen Johan change, says René. “She said,” René we went to campsites, there were children on his back, on his head, on his lap, behind him. Slide off, slide up. And my mother’s death caused a total change. Focus on work and ready. “
Wilfred: “Because he had to decide whether the plug went out or not?”
René: “Yes, and she says:” Really. Friends, girlfriends with it. Everything with it on vacation. Really incredible. ” Strange, but I think that is possible. “
‘Would award it’
Wilfred also thinks it is possible. “That it does you so much that you are ready?”
René: “Yes, I think so.”
Wilfred: “What I would give him the most is that I would like him to be able to enjoy once. But I actually have that feeling that he never knows that feeling.”
René: “No …”