René van der Gijp finds it incredibly sad how Luuk Ikink is lashing out at Wilfred Genee, who, like him, lives in Soest. “Then I think: he has been reading the teleprompter for ten years, Johan!”
RTL Boulevard star Luuk Ikink is suddenly lashing out very loudly at his fellow villager Wilfred Genee. The Today Inside star broke all records last week with his television debate on SBS 6, but Luuk is now bashing him everywhere. He immediately started tweeting very sharply and posted it yesterday RTL Boulevard one more step on top.
Wilfred van Duin
Luuk states that viewers were very bothered by Wilfred. “There was also some irritation. Wilfred Genee did a lot of talking. He ranted through everything.”
Colleague Aran Bade then: “Yes, you found it annoying, didn’t you?
Luuk: “Yes, it looked like a kind of revue by André van Duin that he was performing at one point.”
Aran: “Yes, I thought it was characteristic. It is also somewhat part of SBS 6 and VI of course. Wilfred always has that suggestiveness. I did not find it disturbing and I thought it was a very strong debate in terms of content.”
‘Really ridiculous!’
Johan Derksen thinks that Luuk and his followers should keep their mouths shut. “I have been very annoyed by the criticism of you,” he says Today Inside. “Normally I don’t mind that much, but this time I thought it was really ridiculous, because you are on TV every night, year in, year out.”
He continues: “They know exactly who you are, how annoying you are, what your handy tricks are, so they got Wilfred Genee. They forget that more than 2 million people watched the entire broadcast, while there were important football matches on the other networks. That almost never happens, so there were also a lot of satisfied viewers.”
Negative and sour
Hélène Hendriks doesn’t understand what Luuk is so concerned about. “Yes, but why bother at all?”
Johan: “It’s fashion these days. If there is something, you have to get over it.”
René van der Gijp is annoyed by the Boulevard star: “Preferably negative and sour. All very sour. Such a Luuk Ikink, dude. Then I think: he has been reading the teleprompter for three years, Johan.”
Wilfred: “For ten years.”
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Hélène missed that for a moment. “Then what did he say?”
René: “I don’t even know what he said, but he was also critical. Then I think: I look at that little man every time he stands at that desk at RTL Boulevard, yes, okay, he last laughed when he was three months old, I think.”
Wilfred: “The essence is: if so many people are watching for so long, with such a ridiculously good market share, then you just make good TV. Then enough happens to hold people. You can say something about that bucket and horn of mine, but the essence of it is that you also relax those politicians at that moment. They enter a different mode for a while.”
Worst reaction
The critics are unprecedentedly sour, says Johan. “The worst reaction, René, was from our count from Twente: Sander Schimmelpenninck. Anyone with a different opinion, or, if it doesn’t go the way Sander wants, gets the bag from below and then we are all stupid. He simply portrayed someone from the audience who asked a question as an uninformed fascist.”
René: “Would people prefer that we stop?”
Wilfred: “I have that idea, yes.”
René: “We’re not going to do that? We’re not going to do them that favor!”
‘That’s not true!’
Fortunately, not everyone is as sour as Luuk, René concludes. “You often see that it is sour and negative, but on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons I really meet people who are having a great time, right? Who have such a life, right? Last week I was eating next to four students, who had the nicest stories together.”
“Not once on the phone, I had my picture taken with them and they had such an evening. We just think that everyone is like that, negative and sour. But that’s not true, man.”