The tension is rising: when will the epic sorry spectacle with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk be on the tube? According to his bosom friend Özcan Akyol, it won’t be long now. “The moment is near.”
It cannot but be a huge media event: the big sorry show with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk. Why did the presenter behave like a kind of tyrant on the work floor of De Wereld Draait Door? Why was he being so ridiculous about the hair dryer from the talk show make-up artist? And has he been in therapy?
Big sorry interview
Of course we all want to know, but you can only do such a sorry interview once. So it has to be good and credible. And it’s not really that if you first dine extensively and several times and discuss beforehand with your intended interviewer Coen Verbraak. Or if you sit down with a former colleague like Jeroen Pauw.
AD terrier Angela de Jong has nominated Nieuwsuur to do this interview. According to her, both Mariëlle Tweebeeke and Jeroen Wollaars would be suitable for it. Jeroen seems to be losing weight; Although he is an expert in the field of being bullied, he also has a relationship with DWDD victim Janine Abbring.
“Why are you hiding?”
According to Jan Slagter, the boss of Omroep MAX, Matthijs insists on doing his story with the public broadcaster and they would not want to see the presenter on the tube before the investigation into the abuses has been completed. And those results are not expected until the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest. In other words, it will take a while.
According to Hélène Hendriks, however, Matthijs has plenty of other options to tell his story. She says in The Orange Summer: “If he still wants to say something, then I think: you are independent, you can actually sit wherever you want, so why are you hiding – at least that is what I understand – behind the NPO that it is not there yet? allowed?”
“It’s coming soon!”
Then table guest Özcan, who is close friends with Matthijs in his private life, reveals that the sorry interview is almost upon us. “He’s not hiding. He’s already decided that he’s going to pick a moment to say something. And that moment is not far away. You can tell something, but that doesn’t mean you have to get back to work right away.”
“You can say something in a newspaper or on TV or on the radio, but then you can also wait for that report from the Van Rijn committee. I do think that we will hear from Matthijs a little earlier before the results of that report are available. I don’t think it’s time to hear from him.”
Big question
So the big question now is where Matthijs will give that interview. Of course it would be brave to award it to de Volkskrant, because that newspaper caused his fall, but the presenter is known to only want to do interviews with print media by e-mail. A radio interview would be disappointing, because people want to see if he really means it.
A TV interview is the most likely and can undoubtedly count on sky-high viewing figures. Will the viewer forgive him?