Jordi Versteegden, star reporter for De Telegraaf, believes that Today Inside is missing the point with their current staff outing on Curaçao. “This could also have happened in Hilversum,” he sneers.
It is not the viewer who comes first at Today Inside, but sponsor Corendon: the men of the program are currently broadcasting from Curaçao for two weeks without any reason. The program is less dynamic — on Monday and Tuesday the cast was exactly the same — and it all seems very forced.
‘It’s possible in Hilversum!’
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden finds it disappointing. “It also started with a song by Wilfred Genee, who was allowed to sing there for three minutes, but then I think: then you are in Curaçao, we have Jandino, we have Shirma Rouse, all people from the Netherlands who come from there,” he says.
He continues in the podcast Strictly Private: “Then I think: that’s what you start with, right? I just missed the atmosphere a bit. It could also have been done in Hilversum. Will these be two long weeks?”
A bit bland
Private boss Evert Santegoeds also thinks it is lame that the gentlemen from Curaçao are once again criticizing Sieneke Peeters. “It’s a bit lame. It was about who applies a lot of sunscreen and who doesn’t. It was about that endlessly. And then pissing off Sieneke for the 380th time. I find that easy. She sang one of the songs that is still about it.”
“And Mia & Dion? That was really bad, Johan Derksen. I find it so easy to criticize Sieneke. It is short-sighted to only talk about Sieneke because that is easy and has been common for years. And not about Mia & Dion! That was one of Cornald Maas’s discoveries, who did much worse than Sieneke.”
‘Exactly the same’
By the way, Evert would also like to go to Curaçao at the boss’s expense. “Yes, that is certainly fun for us. We just need to get a sponsor to fly our sound engineer and everyone over and then we will sit there and do exactly the same as we do here. Yes, fun!”
He sighs: “It’s one big commercial.”
Johan understands criticism
Johan chimes in The Telegraph that he understands the criticism. “I was the only one who had problems with this project. I thought it was a bit showy. People in the Netherlands are having financial difficulties. They can no longer fill up with petrol, and then we parade like satisfied millionaires in a sunny country for a fortnight. I already thought this would not go down well.”
Yet he also understands his employer John de Mol. “He has signed a contract with Corendon, and they must get value for their money.”
