Rick Brandsteder behaves quite rudely and unsympathetically towards the press in court, but why? According to him, he has resigned from being a celebrity. “Really don’t feel like it.”
One celebrity after another moves like a drunken beetle on the Dutch motorways and Rick Brandsteder is also guilty of this. He tried to avoid punishment by using an excuse that his father Ron Brandsteder once used: that he only started drinking after an incident in traffic.
1,650 euros
Rick had to appear in court yesterday and got away with a fine of 1,650 euros. Community service was demanded. “That might have been good for him too,” Albert Verlinde sneers Show news.
Celebrity expert Bart Ettekoven: “Yes, I think so. That makes him think more than this.”
Tooske Ragas: “Aren’t there also countries in Europe that hand out punishments according to their means?”
Bram Moszkowicz: “Yes, in Switzerland someone had to pay €300,000 for driving too fast.”
‘Very stupid’
Royalty fan Sandra Schuurhof thinks Rick is a loser. “What he has done is very stupid and it is not the first time and as a judge you can also understand it, but it is mainly about coming up with a story around it that the judge will of course also see through.”
Anyway: Rick himself did not want to talk to Shownieuws. “How are you?” the reporter on duty asks him politely at the court.
‘Don’t feel like it!’
Rick doesn’t want to answer. “Yes, fine, but I have nothing to report, man. I’m just going inside.”
The reporter: “Why don’t you want to talk about it?”
Rick: “Well, I just don’t feel like doing that. I have nothing to report.”
After the treatment, Rick is still silent: “I don’t really feel like responding if you don’t mind.”
He walks away: “I think it’s clear that I don’t feel like talking anymore.”
Well at RTL
Rick wants to be in front of the camera of his former colleagues RTL Boulevard do say something. “I don’t really have any comment to be honest. It just has a sad cause. Sad. I’m glad it’s over now,” he says to reporter Aran Bade.
How is he doing now? “Yes, well. It was just too intense for me that moment with my father and then I fell back into an old habit. That’s sad enough and also sad why I did it.”
Celebrity membership
Why is Rick so unfriendly to the press? Aran explains at the desk: “He doesn’t like going to court. He also said: ‘I actually don’t want the press to be here at all. I have chosen to quit my career in the media.’”
In other words: according to Rick, he has resigned from being a celebrity and the media should now treat him as an ordinary citizen again. And that doesn’t include camera crews waiting for you at the court…
