Hélène Hendriks has made her talk show a great success with Jack van Gelder as her own Johan Derksen, but now she is dropping him hard. Why is that exactly?
There is a lot of sympathy for Hélène Hendriks, but the way she now treats Jack van Gelder does not go down well with people. She helped make her talk show on SBS 6 a success with Jack at the table, but now that she apparently no longer has any interest in him, she is hiding behind all kinds of excuses. Why is she acting so strange?
Jack not welcome
Jack is not present in the current series of De Oranjewinter. At first Hélène shouted that he was on holiday, but that turned out to be an outright lie. The opinion maker indicates that he would like to join us, but that he has heard from Talpa boss Frans Klein that he is not welcome at the table during the current series.
The Talpa boss sent Jack a message with the statement: “The team has informed me that they will start with a different base for the time being, without you.”
Wheel for the eyes
GeenStijl journalist Bas Paternotte does not understand Hélène’s lie. “In fact, Hélène Hendriks has fooled the Dutch people,” he says in the podcast Nasty Boys.
Columnist Jan Dijkgraaf then says: “Yes, and it is very cowardly to let Frans Klein do that. But he also does not say: ‘John and I don’t want you’, or: ‘I don’t want you because of your right-wing talk.’ No, the argument is: ‘The editors have chosen a different interpretation.’ Anyway, the face of that editorial team is of course Hélène Hendriks.”
Shear circus
It is one big ‘sliding circus’, according to Jan, also known as the biographer of the Meilandjes. Then Bas again: “Everyone points at each other. I’m like: come on, guys, you’re not little kids, are you? Why do you treat Jack like that?”
Jan thinks that Hélène is not doing this correctly. “Don’t bring back Rutger Castricum, the neighing horse, and then kick Jack in the loin without honestly saying why he’s being kicked out. And then some half-promise like: ‘Maybe he’ll come back in The Orange Sunday or Summer…’”
Retirement
They are just trying to get Jack out of it, says Bas. “This could well be the prelude to his retirement.”
Jan: “This is just the end of Jack on TV, easy enough.”
Bas: “That it has to be done this way. And then Hélène Hendriks…”
Jan: “Jack van Gelder is screwed out really hard and Frans Klein gets to play the executioner.”
‘Not pure’
Ultimately, this just comes down to Hélène, says Jan. “I am a big fan of Hélène Hendriks, but I still have the feeling that she is not playing this completely straight with those half-promises about the future.”
Bas: “Can’t they just be honest? They can say: ‘Jack, we don’t like it, we’ll stop.’ Jack is then professional enough to say, “Okay.” It reflects poorly on everyone except Jack himself.”
Hélène did not respond to Jack’s sewing yesterday in De Oranjewinter.