Maarten van Rossem keeps his unrestrained media quarrel with René van der Gijp alive. The jury member of De Slimste Mens hits back hard at the football analyst. “He makes silly TV!”
Maarten van Rossem’s performance in the talk show HLF8 caused irritation last week. He sat there muttering that he really didn’t feel like appearing on that program at all. René van der Gijp then went wild on the grumbling TV star. “Sad, super sad. This is so sad,” he said in Today Inside.
moron system
Martin doesn’t understand. “It was suddenly written everywhere that I was sitting there with great reluctance, but that is not true at all. That’s the rioting in that stupid media journalism. The most backward part of journalism is media journalism. Boy-young-young, my God, what a moronic system.”
He continues in his podcast: “I said, ‘It hasn’t been my greatest desire in recent years to sit here.’ Well, it is. I have all sorts of desires that are significantly higher priority than sitting at HLF8. But you can’t turn that around so easily that I didn’t feel like it at all?”
Sneer at Scheul
Antoinnette Scheulderman, who addressed Maarten at HLF8 about his grumbling, gets a kick out of it. “The blonde sitting opposite me then said (put on a moronic voice, ed.): ‘Yes, but why are you here then?’ Then I said, “Well, because I’m here to advertise my theater tour.” So it got a bit of a weird connotation.”
Other than that, it makes no sense, says Maarten. “Gijp hadn’t understood much of it either, which doesn’t surprise me that much either. Yes, what can I say about VI? Yeah, that’s not something you can take seriously, is it? Never mind that you should also take Gijp seriously.”
Adolescent jokes
Maarten thinks Today Inside is sad television. “I actually find it all quite entertaining. And since Gijp undoubtedly laughed hard at his own comments, everyone had fun about it.”
He continues: “Oh well. Gijp… I mean: I’m sorry, but that’s not something a person should get worked up about. It’s a bit of a wondrous thing at all… It’s a show with adolescent jokes and atmosphere made by people who are already at a very advanced age.”
silly television
It is silly television, continues Maarten. “The more silly, the better it scores. Yes, The Masked Singer is also kind of great, but that’s also totally silly. Almost all top-scoring TV programs, with the exception of De Slimste Mens, are of a pretty hopeless silliness. You can’t take VI seriously, can you? Come on!”
Isn’t he a bit concerned with Gijp’s criticism? “Obviously somehow I seem to annoy him, but again, I don’t take that too seriously. My impression is always that they don’t take themselves too seriously either, but at this point Gijp seems to have a kind of relatively low irritation function.”
What does Harry say?
How does media critic Harry Vermeegen view this media quarrel? He thinks Gijp will eventually win:
