Renze Klamer does not think Luuk Ikink’s criticism of his qualities as a talk show host is justified. He also disagrees that he should have asked guest Igone de Jongh more.
It seems that Renze Klamer is not exactly a born talk show host. Critics think that he puts down a very weak program and there is even criticism from his own RTL clubhouse: Luuk Ikink does not think ‘Renze op Zondag’ is very good. He also thinks that the presenter should have asked Igone de Jong more on Sunday.
Disagree with Luke
Until recently, Igone had a relationship with the controversial actor Thijs Römer, who is being prosecuted for several sex offenses. She sat at the table with Renze last Sunday, but he was very easily fobbed off. Even Fred van Leer managed to get more out of it at Igone for one interview in &C. “I was eating myself up,” says Luuk.
Now Renze says that he disagrees with Luuk’s criticism. The presenter says no RTL Boulevard: “Look, if there is someone who is suspected of something, then you have to keep asking questions, but if there is someone who has not chosen it themselves… Yes, who am I to keep asking questions?”
Inside jury today
The men of Today Inside are also persistently negative about Renze. What does he think of that? “Everyone knows: for the jury of Today Inside, few stand, so if you live for their approval, then you have a difficult life, I think. That’s part of the program.”
According to Renze, it is true that his show last Sunday was not really good. “Of course you want to have an impact, but you also want to make a good program in the base. After last Sunday I also had the idea that things could have been a little better in the balance sheet.”
Valerio under fire
Valerio Zeno’s section in particular is under fire, because he keeps getting all kinds of shitty acts into the broadcast. “We have just started with Valerio. You will also experiment with that a bit. One time you try something and you think: that might not work as well, and then the next week you do it a little differently.”
Will he continue with Valerio? In return for The Telegraph: “I think he can really do something in the base. If we immediately changed the show after every column containing criticism, it would be a very strange world.”
Deal with critcism
Finally: how does Renze deal with criticism? “On the one hand, you get used to criticism a bit,” he tells Boulevard. “But on the other hand: if everyone then tumbles over you, you can sometimes make it very big in your own head. When I read six of those things in a row, I sometimes think: Jesus, say, what a shitstorm.”
He concludes: “And then you walk outside and if you ask 100 people: what are you doing? Then 99 people are not busy with Renze Klamer and maybe not the latter either.”