Ruud de Wild believes that there was too much media attention for his fellow DJs Mattie Valk and Wietze de Jager before and during the day of action for Ukraine. “I think something of that.”
Mattie Valk and Wietze de Jager stepped over their own shadow for the victims of Ukraine. After years of media quarrels, they returned yesterday for a while as a duo on the theme channel Radio 555. There was a lot of media attention for this and that started to overshadow the attention for Ukraine, says Ruud de Wild.
Ruud finds something
Ruud expressed his displeasure last night in the talk show HLF8. “Today we mainly had Mattie and Wietze, but luckily we also had a collection”, he remarked cynically. “I liked that, to be honest. That at some point all programs talked about that.”
It should actually be about the atrocities in Ukraine and not about two troubled stars who fall into each other’s arms again, Ruud believes. “We see the images of people waiting at the train and families being torn apart… I found that very difficult.”
Ruud is awake
The war in Ukraine is so serious that Ruud can no longer sleep. “I’ve actually been awake for ten of the past twelve days. Now I’m like: I have three children, what’s next? I really mean that.”
It worries him very much. “It’s the first time in my life that I think: hmm, it can get really crazy. And it’s really just very close, literally and figuratively.”
Tesla joke
During the reunion of Mattie and Wietze, there was little tension in the air. The gentlemen did, however, occasionally share some stitches under water with each other, for example when it came to rising petrol prices. “How nice that you drive a Tesla,” Wietze teased his former colleague.
“Yes yes yes, I was already thinking, where is it! Hey, hey, it took half an hour!”, Mattie says with a laugh. Wietze: “Yes, it was too easy, wasn’t it?”
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Mattie and Wietze during the radio action:
Mattie and Wietze together on the sensitive plate: