Jack van Gelder was present at the table at the Oranjezomer last night, after a week of absence. Where was he in the previous broadcast? “This has never happened to me in forty years.”
The 74-year-old Jack van Gelder has become a fixture in the talk shows of Hélène Hendriks. He fulfills the Johan Derksen-Rol, or that of the conservative mopper, although Jack is often a bit heavier on the hand, and if possible even a little more populist. For example, he received a lot of criticism of his Henri Bontenbash-Bash. “Read CDA program? No!”
Jack is back
Johan Derksen said Jack to ‘shut up’ his ‘mouth’ after that blunder and the former sports presenter did: a week ago he suddenly did not appear at the table at the Oranjezondag. The rumor machine was running at full speed: was it set aside by Hélène? The presenter himself invalidated that; She stated that it was a private issue.
What kind of private issue then? Jack told himself during his return last night in The Oranjezondag. “The whole country was turned upside down, Jack, because everyone thought: where is he well? Are you okay?” Asks Hélène.
“It’s going well”
Jack answers in the affirmative. “I am doing very well, but last week I suddenly didn’t feel good. I had popping headache and I think: then it is not good to sit at the table here, because it was a very cheerful broadcast,” he says. He continues with a faint joke: “Raymond was sitting here, I turned the pillow.”
It is unique for Jack to cancel a broadcast so short in advance. “It never actually happened in 40 years or something.”
Unchanged
Hélène likes that Jack is present again. “Well, great that you are there, very good. So you are not canceled, we can immediately put that completely. Nothing happened behind the scenes.”
Raymond Mens: “Not yet, isn’t it?”
Hélène: “That is always possible!”
Table guest Sam Hagens concludes: “Maybe after tonight!”