It shouldn’t get any crazier: SBS 6 pretends to be stopping Peter Gillis for the time being, but it turns out they are still filming secretly. “Does Talpa have a moral compass?”
Holiday park villain Peter Gillis is increasingly cornered. There is fuss about his parks, he is being prosecuted for tax fraud and then there is his ex-girlfriend Nicol Kremers who has finally reported assault. Because her declaration is so comprehensive, it has been decided to postpone the hearing of 29 August.
Talpa films secretly
It is quite a shame for Peter, because due to the persistent pressure from outside, Talpa announced a week and a half ago that they will only decide after the judge’s verdict whether they will continue with his SBS 6 show ‘Familie Gillis: Massa is Kassa’. “We will only make a decision about a possible continuation of the series after the judge’s decision.”
The fact is that the lawsuit is far from starting, but Peter is now revealing RTL Boulevard that Talpa will continue to run in the meantime: “Yes, we are already busy. Season ten is already over. We are of course filming every week. Yes, we are busy filming of course. We are now on our way to Italy and we will also be filming in Italy, so that filming will continue.”
“Ears fell off!”
BLVD star Rob Goossens just can’t believe this after Talpa’s earlier statement. “My ears just about fell off. Well, I’ve had to listen to this three times. I thought: this is not possible. This is just not possible. We thought: this can’t be right, we’re going to call Talpa. Talpa says: ‘By the way, yes, that’s right. We are already filming.’”
They just misled things, Rob thinks. “Now Marco Louwerens, director, says: ‘Read it again carefully. We didn’t say we don’t film. We just said we’re making a decision.’ But something has definitely been ordered, because you don’t just film on spec.”
Shredder
This just comes on the tube, says Rob. “We all know: Talpa, that whole building, doesn’t have a shredder, because otherwise we would never have seen programs like De Nix Factor, Vier is te Veel and Avastars on television. So filming is being done and if filming is being done at Talpa, it will be broadcast. So Talpa just wanted to fool us grandiosely.”
Like Angela de Jong, Rob believes that the situation has become really untenable. “It is becoming more incomprehensible by the day that this man is still on television.”
Moral compass
John’s own SBS 6 was also criticized last night by Özcan Akyol in the talk show The Orange Summer. “If Talpa has a moral compass, I would send him away. Looks like it’s done, right?”
Hostess Hélène Hendriks: “He hasn’t been convicted yet, has he?”
Özcan: “No, but I do suspect that he will be convicted. Even if you look at how he dealt with that ex and what he says… I can imagine that you (…) say: ‘We’ll park you for a while.’ I understand that recordings are being made just in case he might turn out to be a good boy after all…”
Throw away
Hélène does not think it is suspicious that Talpa is still having recordings made. “You can throw that away, right? You can throw that away.”
But then the moral compass of the broadcaster must of course work. What exactly does that mean? Özcan: “That you have standards and values at Talpa and say: ‘This does not suit our company, this is not what we stand for and that is why we are stopping.’”
Top photographer William Rutten in Shownieuws a little later: “People have been canceled for less…”