Özcan Akyol has absolutely no interest in Televizier’s television prices now that a type like André Hazes Jr. hires people to recruit votes. “You don’t want a price like that, do you?”
It shouldn’t get any crazier: André Hazes jr. turns out to hire people to recruit votes for him. The folk singer thinks he is worth the Golden Televizier Ring. The organization has announced that André will not be disqualified, despite his questionable way of collecting votes.
“You don’t want a price like that”
Özcan Akyol is also on the longlist from Televizier, but really has no interest in that price. “To be honest: no! Because you have to beg for votes. I have indeed been nominated for best presenter (he is on the 50-strong longlist, ed.), but you now see people on social media begging for votes,” he says in Inside today.
He continues: “But I’m not going to say on my Instagram or Facebook, ‘Guys, everybody vote for me!’ André Hazes had hired girls and they all received a tablet at a festival during a performance and then they had to vote for him from the Televizier. Yes, you don’t want to win a prize like that if people treat it like that?!”
Fred Oster
Wilfred Genee finds it strange that André can continue to participate. “Fred Oster seems to have won it like this once and then it was not awarded, was it?”
Johan Derksen: “Yes, look, an active policy does help. If you have a running program, you can do it in your program.”
Özcan: “That is not allowed at the NPO.”
Call panel
It’s all very manipulative, says Özcan. “I know – and I will not say which program, because then it will be a big riot – that the VARA called in a whole call panel of all kinds of people from an employment agency at the time. They all called and that is how they won that Televizier.”
Is it about tacks? “I say nothing else, otherwise I will be cancelled. I know, yes.”
‘It’s Paul de Leeuw!’
Mediapark whisperer Tina Nijkamp does have an idea who Özcan is referring to here. She writes on her analysis channel: “Everything at VI showed that it would be Beautiful Weather De Leeuw by Paul de Leeuw, from 2008.”
She concludes: “Wondering if that was indeed about that program…”