Luuk Ikink thinks that Wendy van Dijk is secretly very disappointed that Hélène Hendriks has displaced her from the main stage. “I was once sent to RTL Z and then you were disappointed.”
The drama is complete for Wendy van Dijk: Talpa has decided to demote her to Net5, where she will revive So You Think You Can Dance. Who will take Wendy’s position on the main stage of SBS 6? Hélène Hendriks. After The Winner Takes It All, it will now also have De Staatsloterijshow in its hands. All painful.
Exterior
How does Hélène herself view this? She looks sober in it, as she shows in front of the camera RTL Boulevard. “Of course. Those stories come every now and then, but that is actually more from the outside, because inside we all know: sometimes you have more programs, other times less.”
There is no tension at all behind the scenes at Talpa about this situation, according to Hélène. “That’s just how it works. We don’t make any fuss about it.”
Main stage
What does Wendy think of it? She says: “Things go the way they go and I’m completely at peace with that, but I just think it’s crazy that something like this happens. There are also things that come along that you may sometimes be asked about, but you think: I don’t see them or I don’t feel them for a while. And that’s allowed.”
RTL Boulevard host Luuk Ikink thinks Wendy is playing big. “I have once had to present a program that was moved to RTL Z and then you were a bit disappointed. Then you thought: that is not the main stage.”
‘You can taste that’
Presenter Vivienne van den Assem agrees. “You can sense that a bit with her, right? Like: it’s a shame, I would have liked it, but well, things go differently.”
Rob Goossens finally: “Yes, but in the last sentence I also hear her saying: I also looked at a few program ideas with DJ Errie and I thought: that’s not going to work out for him. Without her saying it, she also says: ‘I’m glad I didn’t do it.’ Apparently she could have been on SBS 6, but she missed those opportunities.”