René van der Gijp seems to be quite concerned about the guest crisis at Today Inside. After a comment from Özcan Akyol on Wednesday’s show, he almost wanted to run away. “Yes really.”
Today Inside puts down excellent viewing figures on SBS 6, but the editors barely manage to get good guests. René van der Gijp is particularly concerned about this. “I sometimes think when I’m in the garden, of: how should we move on?”, he said last week with a brooding undertone.
Courage in shoes
Now it appears that the guest crisis really affects René. Özcan Akyol was in the show on Wednesday and he indicated that he receives a lot of criticism from his environment for his performances at VI. “Every week I’m told not to sit here. That is below my level, they all say.”
That statement has had a serious impact on René. He came back to it yesterday, one evening later. “I have to tell you quite honestly: I don’t often lose heart, but then I did. I actually counted down a minute. I mean that from the bottom of my heart, yes.”
‘Then I want to leave’
Wilfred Genee surprised: “Then why?”
René seriously: “Yes, then I want to leave.”
Wilfred: “Then you want to leave?”
René: “Yes, then I just want to leave.”
Johan Derksen: “You can’t run away like that, can you?”
Wilfred: “You don’t care about that, do you? What does it matter?”
“Do you take that seriously?!”
René: “No, that’s the funny thing. I don’t care, but when he says, “Yeah, everyone around me yells, ‘You shouldn’t sit there, because you should sit in programs that are, so to speak, of a considerably higher level intellectually'” ‘, then my heart will fail me.’
Table guest Job Knoester: “But do you take that seriously, René, when he says that?”
René: “No, I don’t take that seriously, but then I’m like: I just want to go home now. Yes, then I drive home, then I’m relieved and then my gate opens, my door closes, and then I think: haaaa, great, it’s over.”
weird comment
Johan: “It was indeed a strange comment, but I’m not at all concerned about René, because I know how they talk about us on other programs. They all look down on us with a touch of disdain; we are vulgar and flat. That’s all right, we are just ourselves. And the others pretend to be a talk show.”
Wilfred: “But that feeling… I don’t understand it, René, that you’re glad you can go home.”
René: “Yes, then my heart just drops. I do not know how it happened.”
shit
Johan: “Yes, but I don’t think he meant it that way, René. He said that, because of course they’ve said it to him like, ‘John, you’re not going to sit with those bastards.’ You better not say that.”
Job: “I don’t know Eus very well, but I do get the idea that Eus likes to poke a bit and see how stimulated people react.”
Wilfred: “I think Eus just gives a shit about all those comments, because otherwise he wouldn’t be here.”
Johan pointing to the fact that Özcan will be on vacation for the next two weeks: “Otherwise we will call Turkey, so that they will keep him there for a month.”
Tim de Wit
In any case, who has received a VI ban is Tim de Wit. Wilfred: “We recently had Tim de Wit here and he had been given ‘dickpics’ three times and then he was no longer allowed to come from the VPRO.”
Johan: “No, but that’s the VPRO. They go through with it. Of course they find it disgusting what he is doing here and they are right about that.”
Incidentally, René’s reaction could also indicate that another burnout is lurking. That also happened in 2011, when he reported sick at VI. The talk show’s sudden popularity had plunged him into depression. “I had it so bad for two and a half weeks. I really thought I was going to die,” he said earlier.