Rob Goossens and Jan Roos think that Paul de Leeuw should disappear from the television. According to them, the presenter who is under fire has had his day. “He just needs to stop.”
It is storming heavily around Paul de Leeuw. That’s mainly because he made an extremely bad season of Ranking the Stars and he doesn’t want to acknowledge that he did a really embarrassing job. In fact, he said he would like to make another season. And that lack of self-reflection will only lead him further into the abyss.
Night candle
Paul is now really too old for laugh-or-shoot television, writes TV expert Rob Goossens on the website of RTL Boulevard. “The question is whether that insight will come in time to prevent his television career from fizzle out.”
In his TV programs, Paul seems to understand better than anyone that no one wants to be seen as pitiful, according to Rob. “The irony is that it is only now that he seems to realize that the public is starting to feel sorry for him. A typical case of ‘the tap at the plumber’s house is leaking’, so to speak.”
To screw up
That pity is logical, says Rob, who, according to Boulevard, is ‘advocating for his TV pension’. “Which viewer wants to see someone who has belonged to the crème de la crème of the Dutch presenters’ guild for so long, fail in a program like Ranking The Stars?”
“It reminds me a bit of the Sophie Hilbrand generation of BNN presenters, who had long been driving around with ultra-safe cargo bikes and station wagons, but still wanted to make Try Before You Die-like programs. Please let go in time, because you are not fooling the TV viewer.”
Jan critical
Jan Roos, the presenter of RoddelPraat, is also critical. “Paul de Leeuw used to be the man everyone stayed home to watch. De Leeuw’s scream was legendary television. He was the biggest at the time, with programs that were funny, abrasive, coarse, intense and creative,” he says in the New Revu.
“But he also understands that that kind of television is no longer allowed by our left-wing woke elite. So now he has to make do with supporting roles and he is simply not good at that. And then you see that every program he appears in is just a shit program. He must and will stay on television, but it just doesn’t work anymore.”
Disgraceful
Paul is currently creating a program with elderly people with dementia. Johan Derksen thinks it is degrading. Jan says: “Paul de Leeuw now has to deal with confused elderly people.”
“There’s something sad about it and I think it’s more sad for Paul de Leeuw than for those people, because the next day they won’t remember that they were out with Paul de Leeuw. He should just stop it. Go play puns or something. The Netherlands is no longer waiting for him.”
