Hélène Hendriks creates bad blood with her statements about colleague Jack van Gelder. “It’s an outrageous comment. This is harmful to people who have been affected by it.”
Jack van Gelder, like Tom Egbers, is under fire for unusual behavior at NOS Sport. For example, he invited former colleague Aïcha Marghadi to take a bath with him when she asked if he wanted to be his mentor. Just as if someone is waiting for it. In fact, Jack should be glad that his bath soap has no mind of its own.
“That’s what Jack says”
According to Hélène, you should see all this as a joke. In addition, she has been working with Jack on the talk show HLF8 for quite some time and has no problems with him at all. Moreover, says Hélène, Aïcha also worked with Jack at Ziggo Sport. “And that went well,” said the presenter. “At least, that’s what Jack says.”
That addition is, of course, just satire. It was not for nothing that it led to laughter in the studio of Today Inside on Friday evening (see the fragment below). Presenter Wilfred Genee: “Yes, no, but it will be something else if you say: ‘That’s what Jack says.’ haha.”
‘Yes, hello!’
Media connoisseur Victor Vlam finds it nonsensical that Hélène says that she is not bothered by Jack. “I thought that comment made me think: yes, hello, of course Jack is correct with you, because Hélène Hendriks is the big star at the moment on SBS 6. She is extremely successful and loved by the public,” he says in the podcast The Communicados.
Jack can’t try anything at all with such a person, says Victor. “She is still young and someone who has a big, long future ahead of her. If she can’t get along with Jack van Gelder, then the balance of power there is such that Jack van Gelder has to leave the field, not Hélène Hendriks. And that is of course the situation that was different at NOS Sport.”
Big man
At NOS Sport Jack was the man with power. “Jack van Gelder was the big man there. If you couldn’t get along with Jack van Gelder, then you disappeared, not him. Here it is exactly the opposite. So a comment like, ‘He’s always correct with me’, yes, I think that’s a bit of a bad comment if I’m honest.”
Co-host Lars Duursma agrees. “It is a scandalous remark, because you actually disqualify what others say, because it is not important at all whether Jack van Gelder did this to everyone. It is important that he did it at least with some and possibly did it with many women.”
Incredibly harmful
It’s stupid that Hélène doesn’t see that, Lars thinks. “The moment you say: ‘Yes, he didn’t do that to me’, then the implicit message is: maybe it’s you instead of Jack van Gelder.”
It disturbs him immensely that Hélène behaves like this ignorant behaves. “I don’t think people realize that all those stories of: ‘I didn’t notice anything about him, he never does that with me’ are incredibly harmful to the people who have been affected by it and who have had the courage to speak up. to pull.”
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