Want Marc-Marie Huijbregts to return in 2025 as Beau van Erven Dorens’ permanent sidekick? A very bad plan, says Angela de Jong. “I think he is very much a disruptor.”
During her time at RTL, Eva Jinek was not the talk show queen, but the holiday queen: she lay on her stretcher in the garden more often than she walked around the editorial office. But Beau van Erven Dorens is now making it even more colorful. After four (!) weeks of talk shows, he is already on holiday. We can’t even call that a part-time job anymore.
Tired of sidekicks
Anyway: Beau made his show last month without that lame sidekick Jeffrey Wirtz – he was fired for not being funny – and Marc-Marie Huijbregts took his place. “Small evaluation: no Marc-Marie Huijbregts in the next series?”, asks Manuel Venderbos in the AD Media Podcast.
Angela de Jong, the big star of that podcast, thinks it’s an abomination. “Yes, I don’t really understand what RTL sees in him. I don’t associate him with RTL programs at all. I still think he is very much a public broadcaster. The World Keeps Turning. He doesn’t add much either. But I’m getting a bit tired of all those sidekicks anyway.”
Bar guest
Sidekicks are often unnecessary appendages, according to Angela. “I always think: you don’t need it either. Renze Klamer also has such a bar guest, of course, but I think he can also do it just fine on his own. It’s such a difficult role. Should you get involved in the conversation? Shouldn’t you join the conversation?”
Colleague Dennis Jansen: “If you don’t get involved enough, you’ll be there for nothing.”
Disturbance
Marc-Marie has delivered too little, Angela thinks. “Yes, then why are you there? Then you are a disruptor. I really felt that way about Marc-Marie in recent weeks. He responded to a conversation before Beau, while he actually had the same reaction as Beau, but he came just five seconds behind.”
“Yes, I don’t know. I think the only one for whom it really worked very well was Jan Mulder. At Barend & Van Dorp.”