Bonus points for Bart Ettekoven, Eline de Ruig and Tooske Ragas: they tackled their Shownieuws colleague Guido den Aantrekker, Rachel Hazes’ PR man, very hard on TV.
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker makes a lot of news, regularly makes quote-worthy statements and is anything but boring or politically correct, but has one major weakness: he allows his opinion about the most discussed showbiz family in the Netherlands, the Hazes family, to be dictated by the controversial Rachel Hazes, now also known as ‘the breeder’.
Curious
Rachel summoned her son André Jr. on Christmas Eve, because after years and years she suddenly wants him to perform with ‘junior’ after his name again. Bad timing, of course, and the entire showbiz world, including Jeroen Pauw, has now turned against her. Who will always be left? Guido, that fat guy is with Rachel.
Guido was sitting at the desk last night Show news for the long-awaited moment when he tries to make up for Rachel’s Christmas sewing prank. “I was abroad, so I experienced it a bit from afar, but I thought it was a bit of a strange story,” he begins.
‘Made it up!’
So what’s remarkable? “I also think that André used it a bit to bring it into the media. I mean: mail in the Netherlands, it usually takes a few days before you actually get something and a registered letter, because that would have to be a summons, which is then delivered for him in the evening…”
In other words: Guido thinks that André Jr. is lying about when the summons was delivered. “I think it was probably a bit earlier, but maybe it was a good time to do it post (on Instagram, ed.).”
Unbelievable
Bart Ettekoven immediately addresses his colleague Guido about this suspicion. “What do you mean ‘previously concerned’?”
Guido: “Well, look… I find it a bit unbelievable that you get a registered letter at your door exactly on Christmas Eve, because it is usually delivered by the postman.”
Bart then: “Bailiffs do that, don’t they?”
A summons is usually delivered by a bailiff. Guido tries: “That is possible, but you have all day and even on Christmas Eve all civil servants just like to be at home.”
Five or six hours
Eline de Ruig immediately notes that Christmas Eve is just a working day. “Yes, but Christmas Eve could also be at five or six o’clock.”
Tooske Ragas agrees: “Yes, Christmas Eve is just as soon as it gets a bit dark.”
Guido tries again: “Yes, okay, but anyway, it is framed a bit.”
Bart emphasizes that André never said that he received the summons on Christmas Eve, but on Christmas Eve. Guido: “Everything is storytelling nowadays, including this. Of course it’s back and forth, although Rachel of course keeps quiet.”
Day before Christmas
According to Tooske, whether it was in the afternoon before Christmas Eve or on Christmas Eve itself is completely irrelevant. “Then it is still the day before Christmas. Then we will fall in the evening or day, but…”
Eline: “Yes, exactly.”
Guido: “Yes, listen, Tooske, I don’t know about you in Bloemendaal, but nowadays if you send something by post, it should be delivered within a day, because PostNL has that obligation, but it sometimes takes five to dawn.”
Eline: “Yes, but that timing is unfortunate, right?”
Ten o’clock in the morning
Guido is still trying to straighten it out. “Yes, but at the same time that letter was intended for ten o’clock in the morning.”
Eline: “Yes, but then it is also unfortunate. Then it’s not fun, right?”
Bart: “You know you’re kind of trying to ruin someone’s Christmas, don’t you think so?”
Guido: “I don’t believe it at all on purpose because what does that gain Rachel in this case?”
Bart: “Well, just a bit of bullying.”
Guido: “No, dude.”
Eline: “That he’s having a bad Christmas.”
January 5
Tooske then comes out strong. “She could also have made sure it was January 5 or something on purpose.”
Guido: “That could be possible, but apparently there is a reason that it may have to be done before January 1. Don’t know. We don’t know it all.”
Ah, that boy has been performing as André Hazes for years and years, but now Rachel suddenly has to take legal action before New Year’s Eve? The trapeze act that Guido performs to defend Rachel at all costs is now starting to take on very absurd proportions.
To the facts
Guido finds the rest of the world subjective. “I think it’s nice that everyone delves deeply into their emotions, but I prefer to stick to the facts and the facts are that there is a document, and I also believe that it is the case, in which André has simply committed himself to the fact that whenever he performs as an artist, he does it under the name André Hazes Jr.”
“So if there is a specific reason why things still have to be done with the old André Hazes, senior… It is the heritage that Rachel safeguards and manages. If you have committed to always calling yourself that and you no longer do so, then that is a business conflict.”
Speculate
Eline won’t let her colleague get away with it. “But isn’t she also to blame for that? At Holland Zingt Hazes…”
Guido pissed: “Yes, but look, you are now speculating again and so does everyone. The facts are that he does not keep to the agreements and then everyone can get emotional, but…
Tooske, again very strong: “Yes, but sorry, then I have to interrupt you, because you yourself say: ‘There would be a document.’”
Guido: “No, that document is there, but of course I haven’t seen it myself, but I know it is there. Believe me…”
Eline, also very strong: “Yes, but of course we don’t see it, so then you naturally start speculating because we don’t have it.”
Own child
Guido stands his ground. “Yes, but I don’t think you should speculate on that if you don’t know if it is the case and I know it is.”
Bart: “But then Guido, it is your very own child of whom you have always shouted for years: ‘I fight for them like lions!’ And then you do this?”
Guido: “But I’m not saying that I agree with how that relationship is, am I?”
Bart: “But do you find this insufferable bullying?”
Guido: “No. I don’t think that’s the case.”
Just
Rachel is simply great, Guido thinks. “You have also known Rachel for a very long time and you know that she has an extreme sense of justice. I also said to her once: ‘Hey, let’s loosen the reins a bit.’”
Bart: “Yes, but I understand that you have a sense of justice towards business partners. She is businesslike and you have nothing against that, but towards your own children or your own sister or your best friend? I think that’s so crazy.”
Guido: “Yes, it is very strange, but of course there are also TV series written about family businesses where things go wrong. Hazes is a family business!”
A family business? Since when does Rachel have any family left? Sigh…