Hélène Hendriks contradicts that John de Mol would instruct her to invite more left-wing guests to De Oranjewinter. “He doesn’t interfere with the guests at all.”
Some disappointed Today Inside viewers are grumbling about the guest list of the winter replacement with Hélène Hendriks: De Oranjewinter. It would not be conservative-populist enough, like that of VI. TV critic Victor Vlam thinks that John de Mol tells her to do this, so that his channel SBS 6 also remains popular among left-wing people.
‘Lillian is coming’
John can of course forget about exerting influence on VI’s guest list, but Hélène is still nice and malleable. And more left-wing guests at the table means more left-wing viewers, so more viewers in total for his TV station SBS 6, Victor reasons. He himself thinks that is unwise, precisely because Hélène needs the VI audience to please.
Anyway, according to Hélène it’s all nonsense. She comes back to it in the end of her last night broadcast, when she announces the guests of the next day – today. “I just received a message from Uncle John and he said: ‘We really have to go more to the left side’, so tomorrow Lilian Marijnissen will come.”
‘John doesn’t call’
Sidekick Jack van Gelder thinks it’s fine that the resigned SP leader is coming by. “Yes, but Lilian is a sweetheart, we can have her.”
Hélène then: “We can have that. And Albert Verlinde is there! No, of course John didn’t call, because he doesn’t interfere with the guests at all. Well, that’s out of the question too! And I didn’t have to say that, I wanted to say that.”
‘A party!’
Should Hélène say this about John, Jack asks jokingly. “You got a raise, I hear!”
Hélène: “Yes, indeed, and a lot. Yes, if only it were such a party!”
By the way, Hélène also had John’s niece, Noa Vahle, in the studio. She was – nice and safe – not asked about the massive criticism she has received now that she is starting to behave more and more like nepobaby.
Mentor
Huh?! Isn’t the VI tradition that Wilfred Genee has built up that every riot is jumped on? Ah, of course, Hélène is Noa’s mentor. And that proves once again that in such a setting this automatically leads to a conflict situation, because any other guest would have been confronted with that.
According to communications expert Lars Duursma, these types of dual interests should always be mentioned to the viewer. “The viewer must know from what interest you say something and for me that is what makes the relationship between coach and coachee so problematic. The viewer doesn’t know what is going on.”
The Oranjewinter attracted 862 thousand viewers last night.