Hélène Hendriks has received hate messages after she left the Today Inside studio with corona complaints just before Christmas. “But the editor-in-chief then sent me away.”
It triggers acute feelings of anger in a certain group of people when the word ‘corona’, or even worse: ‘corona test’, is mentioned. They find it ridiculous when people still get tested years after the start of the pandemic and then emphasize that it is only a flu variant. A subgroup reacts extremely strongly to everything about corona.
Corona test
Hélène Hendriks found this out when she left the Today Inside studio just before Christmas, because she tested positive for the coronavirus about half an hour before the broadcast. Many fans of the program did not understand why the presenter was tested in the first place, and the men at the table did not fully agree either.
The Talpa megastar returned to it last night The Orange Winter: “I have to be honest: there was quite a bit of fuss about you recently taking over my place at Today Inside, Eveline (Stallaart, ed.), because then I had to take a test here and it turned out to be corona.”
Hélène gone
The Today Inside boss asked Hélène to pack her bag and leave. “They kindly asked me if I wanted to go home and of course I did, but I received so many hate messages afterwards, from people who think it is very strange that testing is still taking place. Actually, they think panicking is about nothing. Can you get in there?”
Flemish corona celebrity Marc Van Ranst responded: “To some extent, yes. On the other hand, if you have those symptoms, it’s a good idea to get tested. Why had you done that?”
Hélène: “Yes, because I had symptoms.”
Nice at home
Rutger Castricum thinks it is exaggerated. “But at that time we tested, but…”
Hélène: “Because an editor arrived with a test. He said: take a test, so I just did that.”
Marc: “But actually: if you had symptoms, that would have been sufficient reason to stay at home.”
Hélène: “Yes, but of course you don’t stay at home very often. Then you think: no, I won’t do that to my employer. It was half an hour before the broadcast. You think: I’m just there.”
‘Yes, God’
Rutger thinks that Hélène could also have stayed. “But you also left, because I wondered that too. You can also think: yes, God, we all have corona.”
Hélène: “Yes, but the editor asked me: ‘You better leave.’”
Rutger: “They would actually rather have just left you!”
Hélène: “It probably is! Hahaha.”