Frans Klein, the almighty NPO director who is on non-active because of his questionable role in the DWDD scandal, has threatened to bite Jack Spijkerman’s nose.
It sometimes seems as if Talpa really doesn’t care what the outside world thinks of them. The country’s most questionable TV star is still on the channel – Peter Gillis – and now they are casually teaming up with a broadcasting boss who is under serious investigation: Frans Klein. What type is this? Well, a tantrum frog…
Leftist shit
According to Jeroen Pauw, Frans has always had that hot temper, he says in the talk show Marcel & Gijs. “I don’t know him very well, to be honest. Paul Witteman was from the VARA and I from the NTR. At one point I also had to go to the VARA and then I had a conversation with him, because it was a kind of merger of those broadcasters.
And then? “Then he took out of his inner pocket an interview that I had once given somewhere, of which he said: ‘Yes, I want to talk to you about it, because it says here: ‘I don’t have that much with the VARA and all that left-wing stuff and you won’t hear me sing the evening sky either.” I had indeed said that once.”
‘I’ll bite your nose’
Frans was VARA boss at the time and wanted to know how well Jeroen would fit in with the broadcaster.” Then he said: ‘Are you enough VARA?’ He thought that was very important. When Jack Spijkerman teamed up with John de Mol, he was quite angry about it. I remember that.”
He continues: “Frans was VARA boss at the time and he thought it was very bad that Jack Spijkerman made that switch and then there was a kind of altercation, which he later came back from and said: ‘I’ll bite his nose off next time!’ I actually thought that was nice.”
Fat target
Jeroen himself is not really big on Frans. “He was quite strict with me. I had a program called 5 Years Later and he said: ‘Yes, I don’t really like that much anymore, so we’re going to stop that.’”
Dan: “I thought it was nice that someone is just clear. He was. At least to me.”
Contemplate
Marcel van Roosmalen thinks that Frans will not enjoy his Talpa adventure very much. “You can’t scheme here, you can’t divide power here. There is only one person in power and that is John de Mol. Then I really think: what is he doing here, what is he here to ruin?”