Matthijs van Nieuwkerk does not know exactly what the Volkskrant is going to reveal about him. That says his soul mate Özcan Akyol, who has spoken about this with the TV star, in Today Inside.
De Volkskrant has been working for months on a damning article about how Matthijs van Nieuwkerk has behaved for years behind the scenes of his program De Wereld Draait Door. The newspaper has informed Shownieuws that the article is currently in the completion phase, so the public slaughter of Matthijs is almost coming.
Tyrant Matthijs
René van der Gijp discussed it yesterday in Today Inside. “Matthijs’s piece is coming this week, right? In the Volkskrant.”
Colleague Wilfred Genee: “Oh, about what happened behind the scenes?”
Johan Derksen: “Well, piece? A whole appendix probably.”
Wilfred: “The tyrant!”
René: “He is quite involved with it. Yes I think so.”
What does Özcan know?
What does dinner guest Özcan Akyol know about it? He is close friends with Matthijs. “Well, I read everywhere that that piece is coming. We sometimes talk about it: ‘Yes, there will be a piece, but I don’t know what will be in it, so we have to wait and see if there will be a piece.’”
Wilfred: “Well, it took them a long time to write that piece.”
René: “Five months.”
John: “Yes. It took them five months, so they are obliged to such a chief editor to come up with something. From what I hear in the world, he was a difficult man, but it was top sport: the best-watched program in the Netherlands every night.”
Will Matthew respond?
If Matthijs has fallen out against bad editors, then Johan doesn’t think it is that problematic. “That’s what I did as editor-in-chief. Then I cursed them all stiff. That is now called transgressive behavior, which you can be caught for. I don’t think it’s all that bad. That happens in every company with committed people.”
Wilfred: “Is he going to react to it Eus?”
Özcan: “I don’t know. I think it really depends on what’s in that piece. Whether or not you will respond based on that. If it’s all bullshit, you can say, “It doesn’t make sense.” But if you’re going to respond, you’re going to defend yourself. What Johan just said: ‘If it is authoritarian leadership, do you have to defend yourself for it?’”
‘Shut it up!’
Johan advises Matthijs to keep quiet about death. “He shouldn’t react to it at all. Matthijs is of course a very vain boy and he can’t stand this. He thinks it’s very bad that this is happening, but you have to give a shit.”
“Don’t respond, because you know what newspapers are like: they’ll publish it first, then they’ll finish you off in a few pages and then they’ll say, ‘You can tell it all in an interview’, and then they’ll have it again. Matthijs. Do not!”
