Tim Hofman invariably causes a lot of annoyance among people with his attitude. His most prominent critics include Marcel van Roosmalen and Marc-Marie Huijbregts. “Whatever the f*ck!”
In recent years, Tim Hofman has come to see himself as a kind of walking moral compass and that has caused resistance among many people. Even several celebrities are very annoyed by this. “If you have an opinion, every time you find something, we all have to find it immediately,” Marcel van Roosmalen once said to him live on television.
Messiah complex
The confrontation between Marcel and Tim led to a very tense situation, because he wanted to be taken more seriously than the columnist took him. And what about Marc-Marie Huijbregts? He was also very outspoken: “It’s a bit like someone who takes an eighty-year-old woman across the street and has an erection in his pants.”
Both Marcel and Marc-Marie strongly feel that Tim suffers from the messiah complex, a state of mind that causes a person to believe he is responsible for saving or helping others. “He would prefer to arrive somewhere in Utrecht on a donkey with: hosanna, hosanna. That everyone hangs around it.”
‘Whatever the f*ck!’
What is Tim’s Christmas message to these two critics? “Writer Philip Huff wrote in an NRC piece that people like that have difficulty with someone else’s commitment. Indifference should prevail from them. I’m not signing up for that. Then you can call me a rascal, a messiah or whatever the fuck – that’s fine.”
Tim tells in de Volkskrant that he is getting terribly tired of this kind of easy criticism, even though he has an extremely important message. Important content. “I increasingly wonder whether it is possible to fight against that avalanche of fake news, that avalanche of easy, empty phrases.”
Power position
It is true that Tim would like to help people, according to his own words because he is such an Extremely Powerful Person. “That’s why I surround myself with vulnerable voices. Especially on X and Instagram, where I follow thousands: trans people, people of color, people from a low socio-economic class.”
Big Tim is there for all these people. “I listen to them a lot. I don’t know whether I always do that correctly, but as someone in a position of power I see it as a duty.”
Good decoration
De Volkskrant is a bit cynical about Tim’s statement against the war in Gaza. “Why do you think that as a public figure you should speak out about such a war? (…) You don’t want to make a nice decoration?”
Tim sharply: “Good decoration? (…) This is not about vanity. I’m not saying that I’m never vain, but is that different for me than for a Telegraaf columnist? Or a random person with an Instagram or X account? Doesn’t the dopamine rush from likes sometimes play a role for everyone? But again: that was not the case with my post about Gaza.”
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