“When Geubels broke through and I didn’t, I was sulky and jealous for a long time”: Xander De Rycke about the success of his end-of-year conference

“When I took part in the tests for ‘The Smartest Person’ in 2008, I was not funny and a marginal guy.” Started in 2016 in a café for 40 spectators, now accounting for five full Lotto Arenas: ‘Xander De Rycke calls it a day’, the end-of-year conference of the country’s sharpest film and TV critic, is a somewhat unexpected but no less nice success story. And with his son Ferris, he and his girlfriend also approach things differently than their parents: “We look back on our own parents with even more amazement.”

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