Olcay Gulsen thinks it is incredibly lame that Wierd Duk has walked away from the NPO talk show Dit is de Week. “She just pointed out his own statements and he couldn’t figure it out himself,” she sneers.
Wierd Duk’s departure from the EO talk show Dit is de Week has caused quite a bit of controversy. There is understanding from parties such as Johan Derksen and Mischa Blok, but there is also criticism. According to critics, he should simply have confronted opinion maker Ronit Palache, who criticized the working method of the Telegraaf star.
“It’s lame!”
TV boss Paul Römer thinks it is ‘lame’ that Wierd has run away, he says Pauw & De Wit. “I think it’s weak. Wierd Duk is someone who has strong opinions and dares to express them in all kinds of talk shows in an environment that is often safe for him.”
“Now he is in an environment that is not very safe for him, namely with three people in front of him who have a different view of the world than he does, and to then walk away when you get pushback is a bit weak in my opinion. Then stand up for what you think and have the discussion.”
Unwritten
Mischa Blok, who is also at the table, thinks differently. “Certainly. I would have walked away from here too. If you take a seat at a talk show table, you have the unwritten rule that you treat each other respectfully. Yes, no respectful conversation took place here. He was simply reprimanded as if he were a small child.”
“She was constantly talking about ‘Wierd this’ and ‘Wierd that’, while he was just sitting next to her. That is not running away, but distancing yourself from a disrespectful conversation.”
Olcay critical
Olcay Gulsen, who was dismissed from Today Inside because she called Wierd a ‘passionate racist’, also shares her opinion. “She just pointed out his own statements and he couldn’t figure it out himself. I thought it was lame that he walked away.”
Mischa: “What she said wasn’t right either.”
Olcay: “No, but I do think that if you say: ‘You have to be respectful’… He often sits in environments that are anything but respectful. You can just have this conversation, right?”
‘No conversation’
Mischa thinks that’s nonsense. “It wasn’t a conversation. It wasn’t a conversation that took place here.”
Olcay: “No, but he was allowed to respond.”
Paul: “It didn’t become a conversation because he walked away.”
Mischa: “It wasn’t a conversation before that either, because he didn’t even get to speak and she was just pointing out to him: this, this, this and this. She didn’t even let him finish.”
Don’t run away
It was just awful television, says Mischa. “I didn’t think it was a conversation and it was also unpleasant to watch, so I completely understood. I also walked away.”
Olcay concludes: “I understood that Ronit herself wasn’t actually waiting for him, but then she shouldn’t have joined if you’re so against someone. I think so. But I do think that once you’re there, you shouldn’t run away, right?”