Robert ten Brink lashes out at Joost Klein live on television, because the All You Need Is Love star criticizes the Eurovision singer’s behavior. “Why are you filming? Because it’s my job!“
What did the incident look like that led to Joost Klein’s disqualification from the Eurovision Song Contest this year? Het Parool has written a very long reconstruction about what exactly happened after his performance in the semi-final. When he storms off stage and ends up in the cooling area, “things go wrong quickly — and quickly,” the newspaper said.
Ferocious Joost
The camera lady in question against whom Joost allegedly misbehaved pointed her camera at Joost and his colleagues. “Klein responds immediately”Hey! Why are you filming?‘ Because of the cheerful mood and the history, the camerawoman initially thinks he is joking. But Klein is getting angrier,” the newspaper said.
Joost has previously received a reprimand for his rude behavior towards this camera woman. “When he also comes in her direction, she quickly turns off her camera. It is the reason that there are ultimately no images of the offending moment. (…) The artist makes an arm movement towards the camera.”
Camera broken
The woman presses her camera against her body to protect the material. “During this short skirmish, the camera is damaged, the woman sees. When she looks up, she sees Klein running away towards the green room, where all the candidates are waiting for the results. The camera woman is shaking on her legs.”
It concerns a Sony A7 III body camera, Het Parool knows. “Depending on the extras, it has a new value of between 1,200 and 4,000 euros.”
‘Because it’s my job!’
Robert ten Brink finds it incredible, he says in the talk show RENZE from last night. The presenter finds Joost’s comment about why that woman is filming him particularly unprecedented. “‘Why are you filming?’ ‘Because it’s my job!’“, shouts the All You Need Is Love presenter, who fills in the answer for the camera woman.
Host Renze Klamer: “Ehhh, yes…”
Robert: “‘And we’re running a television show.’“
Don’t squeak
Renze is clearly a little more in the Klein camp. “You don’t think you’re so mean?” he says to Robert.
The RTL 4 star then: “Well, yes, sorry, but… (grins in incomprehension, ed.) Frans, how would you do that?”
Table guest Frans Bauer: “I find it difficult. We now hear the story of the camerawoman, but you are Joost, you have just done a song, also a kind of tribute to your father, so you are on an emotional rollercoaster, you come off stage, ummm… Are you Do you need a moment to calm yourself down or are you going to be filmed there right away?”
Out of context
Frans doesn’t really know how to judge it. “I find it difficult. Isn’t it all a bit taken out of context? Don’t know.”
Renze: “The article also describes that there is increased pressure on artists to also work behind the scenes… They had to make TikToks and I don’t know what else, so you hardly have a place where you can just relax.”
Frans: “I think it would have been best if they had come together afterwards and just talked to each other like: ‘Sorry, too bad, sand over it’, and on to the final. Then we probably would have won now!”
Annoying little guy
Show expert Bart Ettekoven criticizes Joost’s behavior. He agrees Show news: “It was quite clear how insufferable he behaved.”
Evert Santegoeds: “Yes, he is a spoiled brat.”
Bart: “He has also had a stern conversation about it, after a first incident with the same camera woman. Then he had already been scolded and reprimanded.”
Evert: “In any case, it cost a camera with a value of at least 4,000 euros. He is an annoying guy behind the scenes.”