A little desperate or just ambitious? Raymond Mens literally calls the editor of Today Inside every day to ask whether he will be on the show that evening. “Have all the news!”
It is no secret that Raymond Mens, together with Job Knoester, among others, is part of the group that is very proud to be part of Today Inside. He prefers to sit at the bar every evening. He has not been able to do that yet, but at least he is on the phone with the editor every day, Wilfred Genee reveals.
Highlight
Raymond confesses in the column In The Walkways that he is very pleased to be in the SBS 6 Christmas commercial this year. “I have really been working towards this for years. A highlight in my career, but I secretly really enjoy it.”
Colleague Sam Hagens: “I was just going to say that! You like it very much. I remember last year at the Ziggo Dome, when I went there with Raymond, and of course a lot of people and regular viewers came, because we were just in the audience. Everyone wanted to take a picture with Raymond and he took a moment for everyone!”
‘Every day!’
Remarkable, says Sam. “While you might think: at a certain point it gets annoying. Well, not for Raymond!”
Raymond: “Can we go back tomorrow, I said?”
Sam: “Yes, he said to me: ‘I really like it!’”
Then Wilfred drops out of school. “Raymond is also the only employee who calls the editor first thing every morning: ‘Don’t I have to sit tonight?’ Really every day! Just every day!”
‘Do not believe!’
Raymond becomes visibly uncomfortable. “Don’t believe what he says!”
However, this is not Wilfred’s joke, but dead serious. Him: “Every day! No seriously. He calls every day!”
Sam: “Nooooo! Real?”
Raymond does not deny. Wilfred imitates him: “’Not? Why not then? I still have so much fun news!’”
Merel Ek: “Ahhhh.”
Good news show
Raymond of course has to do something now that the good news show has stopped or is about to stop (no one knows). Wilfred: “Yes, that good news show is going to stop. By the way, we haven’t discussed that once. It had so little meaning.”
Merel: “Yes, it also happens between the elections of course…”