Marc-Marie Huijbregts has been treated mercilessly and unusually hard by Shownieuws. The show column denounces his taciturn attitude. “Where are you now with your annoying little voice?”
It disturbs critics immensely that friends of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, who are normally at the forefront with their opinion, do remain silent about the DWDD scandal. Particular reference is made to Claudia de Breij, but there is also annoyance about the remarkably quiet Marc-Marie Huijbregts. He finally responded briefly in his podcast yesterday.
Marc-Marie is disappointing
Marc-Marie decided to downplay Matthijs’s misconduct in the summer, but now that de Volkskrant has clearly shown that dozens of people have become ill because of the presenter, the comedian is silent. He states in his podcast that he has no need to ‘pee all over Matthijs’.
To this point, Marc-Marie does not give a value judgment about Matthijs’s behavior, but it does bother critics that he does not specifically express his sympathy for the victims of the presenter.
‘This is really weird’
Bart Ettekoven tackled him hard in Shownieuws yesterday. “I think it’s a bit weird. You have been part of the program. Then it is not so strange that we want to know if he has also noticed something? I would have expected him to say something about it.”
He continues: “This podcast is called Marc-Marie & Aaf Find Something. They find some of everything that breathes and moves in the Netherlands and Dutch showbiz. Take a look. This is what he has found and said about others in recent weeks and months.”
Annoying voice
Shownieuws then shows a compilation of numerous Dutch celebrities about which Marc-Marie expresses an opinion. “I rest my case. If it gets too hot under his feet, he will stop with that annoying little voice and then suddenly he won’t say anything at all and then he will invoke his right to remain silent. I just find that very strange,” says Bart.
He continues: “Marc-Marie has also worked with all those people who have been sick at home. He could have said that he really feels bad for those people, couldn’t he? I miss that. It is also about his colleagues.”
Shocking
RTL Boulevard is also critical. “Although Marc-Marie normally thinks something about everything, his opinion is now hard to find,” says voice-over Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte.
Presenter Frank Dane then in the studio: “Is he cowardly or is he a very good friend?”
TV connoisseur Rob Goossens said: “I find it rather disconcerting. He could have said that he hated it and with that, precisely because he has been a guest so often, could give the editors who it happened a great heart.
“He’s trivializing!”
Daan Nieber agrees. “He wishes ‘everyone’ a lot of strength, so does not necessarily only mention the victims.”
Rob: “That you call it ‘peeing on him’, while they are quite serious stories… He is just trivializing the victims with this. He thinks he’s not saying anything, but actually I think this is worse than if he had just kept his mouth shut.”
Diederik Jekel: “I think it might be better if he didn’t say anything at all or at least say that it’s terrible that people have been affected by it. I can well imagine that he has never seen anything and that is a different reality.”
spring chicken
René van der Gijp thinks Marc-Marie is suspicious, he says in Today Inside. “Squeaky chicken now also feels guilty. I can’t imagine he didn’t know this. Look, Eus was there a bit shorter, wasn’t he, but he was already there for a long time.”
Wilfred Genee: “So Spring Chicken is part of the plot?”
René: “I’m sure, I’m sure. Of course it is. He knew about it.”
Wilfred: “It didn’t just beep, but it did more?”
Özcan Akyol: “You don’t know that, do you? Do you really think he knew that?”
René: “If you work with someone for ten years, right?”
Another opinion
The opinion of RTL Boulevard reporter Joost Maiburg:
