Thomas van Groningen always does very mean to his girlfriend at home when she says something to him while he looks inside today. “Then he really presses on the pause button with a big sigh.”
The 34-year-old Thomas van Groningen always comes across as very good and crazy on television, but he also has a completely different side. If the cameras are out, he can also be nasty and irritated. His friend Iris Martens, four years younger, with whom he has a son, is complaining about it this week in a double interview with the Varagids.
Pause button
Iris finds it a shame, disappointing and sad that they can never look at the same evening on the couch. “Sometimes you really do your best to watch something with me, but then I see you looking at the clock around 21.30 because then you want to look inside again today,” she complains.
And Thomas’s girlfriend doesn’t feel like it at all, but once inside is on today, she is required to love her waffel. “I don’t have to talk if you watch TV. If I say something that you know: now I have to listen, then you press a pause button with a sigh.”
“This is true”
Thomas admits this nasty side of itself. “I didn’t know that Buis & Haard can be such a revealing section, but this is also true.”
He simply pays more attention to television than for his loved one. “Of course I watch all the talk shows, the news programs and boulevard. That is also a bit of professional deformation. I even look back on politics. I soon have the feeling that I miss things.”
Eva not seen
Even in the car, Thomas TV ‘looks’. “That’s right. What I do a lot nowadays is TV in the car, as a radio. Eva Jinek I have not seen for months, but I hear it every day.”
He concludes: “And I like to look at Renze. He knows how to keep the conversations exciting. I have worked for Sven Kockelmann and if Sven is doing a political interview, I always want to know how it ends. Wilfred Genee I find as a talk show host on a lonely height.”