The men of Today Inside have been on the air for a week now and the first riots are already occurring. And this time it was not Johan Derksen or René van der Gijp who didn’t mince words, but Özcan Akyol. The presenter and opinion maker claimed on Tuesday in the broadcast that Marc-Marie Huijbregts is “not a nice boy”. And that has now come to the attention of the comedian.
This week I was suddenly subject to VI at the table”, says Marc-Marie in his podcast in which he can be heard with Aaf Brandt Corstius. Cynically: „Delicious, yes… I always say Eus, because I don’t know what it’s really called. His name is… Oz-can Ak-yol. Apparently he thinks I’m being very unkind and all that. I also find it touching and cute that he is simmering like that. That he has a very hard time with all that.”
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Marc-Marie became in VI accused of ‘joining every RTL talk show’. “Eus is really everywhere. He simply comes by train and does not need to know in advance where he is going, he just comes if he can write a small bill. It’s with Hlf8he’s with VIhe’s with Khalid & SophieBee JinekBee Beau. He’s just sitting there. And that’s really cute, because then he’s talking like that with his dead eyes.” Aaf: You can’t tell from that what’s going on inside.” Marc-Marie: “I also don’t think there is much going on.” (…) When you meet him, it’s always slime ball tingling.”
The riot was sparked when Wilfred Genee joined Today Inside wondered aloud if Marc-Marie might be a suitable guest for the program. René van der Gijp: „You see Marc-Marie (at RTL, ed.) more and more often. After all, someone in that editorial office said: ‘Just sit him at the table four times, it’s fun.’ Johan Derksen adds: „You know what the nice thing is, he is a very nice boy. But I’ve never been able to discover what he can do. He can’t do anything and is beeping with it and now and then he has a nice story.”
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Then Eus strikes: „I do not agree with you. He’s not a nice boy. In the run-up to the Boekenbal I had said in an interview: ‘There are all kinds of characters walking around who I think have never written a book. But they are there.’ I mentioned Marc-Marie Huijbregts as an example. And when I first met him at The world goes on, he came to me very angrily and said (Eus puts on a squeaky voice, ed.): ‘I did write a book!’ I said sorry and that it passed me by.”
Despite his counterattack, Marc-Marie – who, like Eus, seems to be good friends with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk – claims not to be angry. “I do not forget, but I do forgive. I wasn’t even mad. He also has a distorted view of history, a weird view of how things have gone. Because he remembers all kinds of things from the Boekenbal. As if I did evil to him. I’ve never gotten angry about anything. (…) I really do know myself, I don’t care about that at all. I didn’t even say “funny evil.” I looked into his dead eyes and probably said kindly, ‘Gosh, I wrote a book too.’”