René van der Gijp finds it a bit affected that Johnny de Mol currently no longer feels like presenting his talk show HLF8. “I find it a bit easy.”
Johnny de Mol abruptly stopped presenting his talk show HLF8 six months ago, because of the many suspicions against him. Now that his name has more or less been cleared, everyone was counting on the presenter’s immediate return. However, he is so over it that it is uncertain whether he will return at all.
bit easy
René van der Gijp thinks it’s a bit affected. “I have to say that I find it a bit easy of that Johnny,” he says in Today Inside. “First his biggest wish is a talk show and then you have it, then some things happen along the way – but that always happens, that happens to everyone, doesn’t it? – and then you say: ‘No, I don’t need that anymore.’”
According to René, you then get very carried away in misery. “I find that a bit easy.”
VI table guest Hélène Hendriks: “Well, he’s still thinking about it.”
René: “Yes, how long?”
New format
According to Hélène, it is also questionable whether Johnny feels at home in the renewed format of HLF8. “I have to say: the program is of course originally from Johnny and it was more feel good and positive, a little sweet in it, but of course the program has changed over time.”
Wilfred Genee explains the new format: “Suddenly a lot of people are sitting at a table, who have an opinion about everything. It has become an opinion show. I saw Filemon Wesselink passing by, Ronald Molendijk. Everyone just sits there. That’s the idea now?”
Yes, agrees Hélène. “I’m really not dissatisfied with it.”
Pretty intense
Back to Johnny. According to Wilfred, it is not at all surprising that he has had it for a while. “It is something that Johnny has been through. We all experience things from time to time, but this was pretty intense, don’t you think? You find it strange that he is not going to sit there now, but it is quite intense what he has been through.”
René: “I don’t want to say that it isn’t intense. His sister is also sick. But if at some point you get to a certain age, then of course it’s going to happen. My son also had cancer five years ago. He’s had chemo and radiation, everything. Those are things… As you get older, you run into them more and more.”
Uncomfortable
Hélène fully understands Johnny’s situation. “Everyone has different ways of dealing with certain things and if you don’t feel comfortable taking charge and wearing a program, I understand that you need some time. I understand that.”
“He just needs some time,” she concludes.
