Tim Hofman always takes everyone’s measure, but how accurate is he actually? Lars Duursma, the most famous communications expert in our country, seriously doubts this.
Lars Duursma, also an accomplice of the infamous VIP crusher Victor Vlam, has a serious conflict with Tim Hofman. He has the presenter at the beginning of the month reprimanded for wrongly accusing a reality candidate of sexual assault. He then also caught the TV star quickly deleting tweets.
Warrior Tim
Lars’ confidence in Tim has therefore been considerably damaged. “He always quickly and often presents himself as a fighter against injustice. But yes, he sometimes creates that injustice himself and then he acts as if his nose bleeds and we have proven that with a participant in a reality program,” he says in the podcast The Communicados.
A tiny correction followed, or something that passes for that, but Tim leaves the video with that accusation online. And it has already been viewed half a million times. Co-host Victor: “It has since become known that he is not a molester, right? That is equally important to say. Half a million since it was known that he is not a molester.”
Three observations
Lars now shares ‘three observations’ about Tim. “One: Tim Hofman only points to others. For me he is a bit of the equivalent of what Mark van Bommel used to be. He was kicking people down quite a bit as a football player. But if anyone came near him, he would fall over the grass, like: look what happened to me here.”
He continues: “And I actually think that is also the case with Tim Hofman. He is constantly busy with the others. And he also says in his Twitter thread: ‘Yes, but the producer is wrong, RTL is wrong and so on.’ And then I think: yes, that’s right, we also said it, but that doesn’t take away your own responsibility to do something.”
Half Jesus
Victor shares this criticism of his esteemed colleague. “What is especially remarkable, of course, is that he also presents himself as a kind of half-Jesus. Taking a little more responsibility is part of that.”
Lars: “Jesus did that too. Observation two: if you start stealthily deleting old tweets, you’re done. And then you also saw that the discussion on Twitter started to change. From: Tim Hofman is now just someone who first says he did nothing wrong and then it turns out that he secretly deleted tweets that morning. That’s not very convenient.”
More dirt
And observation three? “Tim Hofman’s working method also works against Tim Hofman. Because what I regularly see with Tim Hofman is that he pays attention to something and then he hopes that more people will respond as a result. He did this, for example, with his program about Gijs van Dijk. That was actually a semi-finished product.”
He had already put that online in the hope of more, according to Lars. “Then at the end the call came very clearly: ‘Come with more dirt, come with more dirt, then I can also make new episodes about this in the future.’”
Cesspool
And according to Lars there is also dirt to be found about Tim. “That is a phenomenon that apparently does indeed work that way, because we have criticized Tim Hofman, and suddenly people start approaching me from all sides saying: ‘It’s good that you are paying attention to this, but did you also know this?’”
“Lawyers are also starting to approach us saying, ‘Hey, but this happened to a client of ours.’ There is quite a cesspool about Tim Hofman’s working method. If only a fraction of that is correct, then it’s not nice.”