Johnny de Mol denies insulting Hélène Hendriks. According to him, the partial ‘stealing’ of her talk show De Oranjezomer was agreed upon together. “That went very nicely.”
Hélène Hendriks seemed surprised this week at an advertising presentation by Talpa – she presented it – when Johnny de Mol announced that he will do the last four weeks of her talk show De Oranjezomer this summer. “I just realized that it was going ahead, so I had to switch gears,” she responded in surprise afterwards.
‘She didn’t know’
Media journalist Gudo Tienhooven from the AD has obtained a story from Talpa. He received an official response from Hélène, who says: “I can do it for eight weeks, because then Ziggo Sport starts again and I am also employed by them. I knew they were working on Johnny and yesterday I found out and heard that everything had been finalized. So great.”
Gudo tells in the AD Media Podcast: “So she didn’t know that it had been finalized yet, but she did know that they were in conversation with Johnny and that was finalized perhaps a minute before the presentation. Don’t know. But it’s not like: ‘Hélène, you have to leave for four weeks.’ She has other activities, so it is purely a technical agenda.”
What does Johnny say?
Albert Verlinde has called the course of events ‘idiotic’, but how does Johnny himself view it? “Yes, very nice. She took over from me at the time and she has other duties. She also works at Ziggo, for example, so she couldn’t do them all. She does the first eight weeks and I do it from mid-July to mid-August.”
He mainly sees it as a great opportunity, he continues in the talk show Renze. “The Orange Summer is here when VI is not there and Hélène usually does that and now there was a frame free of four weeks, so yes, very cool.”
Not neat
Host Renze Klamer then asks Johnny point blank whether it was communicated properly with Hélène. “What was with that announcement and that she didn’t know or something? Didn’t that go completely smoothly or what exactly is it like?”
Johnny: “Um, no, that went very nicely. I think it was just a Hélène joke. I didn’t get it.”
A bit crazy
Renze thinks it’s strange. “The impression was given that she did not know about it and heard it at the time it was told.”
Johnny: “No, that would of course be a bit crazy. No, she called me herself, so I thought that was very nice of her.”
Renze: “Ask if you would like to do that?”
Johnny: “Exactly, yes, so no, that must have been a misunderstanding.”
Gentlemen
The reactions to Johnny’s arrival are very negative. “And are you concerned with the public reactions to it or what the gentlemen at VI think about it?”
Johnny: “Uhh, no. No. No doubt it will. I was more concerned with: who are we going to ask at the table again?”