After seeing the first episode of Olcay & Ruud, Evert Santegoeds is convinced that the couple flew to the earthquake zone in Turkey purely out of vanity. “For the soap!”
Olcay Gulsen and Ruud de Wild have received a real life soap at the public broadcaster for incomprehensible reasons. As a kind of stray RTL 5 program, their show is now on the flagship of Dutch television: NPO 1. And the first episode was rather cringe, especially because of the emptiness that the two radiate.
Incomprehensible
It is hard to see, says Evert Santegoeds in his podcast Strictly Private. “How terrible and I believe that the whole of the Netherlands is not really interested. What kind of stunt is that of the public broadcaster to give them a docusoap on NPO 1… I think it’s something. I find it incomprehensible.”
Presenter Jordi Versteegden: “Ruud de Wild also had a very hard time. That was also made fun of in VI.”
Dramatic Ruud
The men of Today Inside think that Ruud acted rather dramatic after a swimming lesson. He was having some kind of panic attack and couldn’t say anything more.
Evert: “Yes, a DJ with a speech impediment, that is only possible in the Netherlands, right? It really is… And then also his wife. And those paintings with those letters.”
Jordi: “I think: they are already milking every poop and fart on Instagram.”
Turkish trip
Evert feels that Olcay and Ruud’s recent trip to the earthquake zone in Turkey also had superficial motives. “Whatever they were going to do in Turkey! Just getting in the way.”
He continues: “What on earth did they do there after that earthquake? That was just making footage for this program, I guess. And besides that, they had nothing to look for at all, did they?”
Bad grades
Olcay and Ruud’s soap started with low ratings. Evert: “I don’t see the De Wild family completely finishing that series on NPO 1 with these kinds of figures. That is really dramatic.”
“It is now 500 thousand, so then you know that next week there will be 400 thousand. That is really far and far too little for NPO 1 at that time.”