Wierd Duk has become one of the most prominent table guests of Today Inside – he is there every Wednesday – but he does not get along at all with the great VI star René van der Gijp. “Don’t connect.”
It is increasingly looking like René van der Gijp is slowly heading towards the exit at Today Inside. There are more and more broadcasts in which he barely says anything, he admits in his own podcast. “Sometimes I think: I better cancel the call. There are evenings when nothing has happened. Then there is nothing on TV, except the war in Ukraine.”
Better lazy than tired
René will have nothing else. “Then I sit there and think: why am I even here? I might as well say: guys, I’ll come tomorrow.”
Actually, he doesn’t feel like trying to figure everything out. “I’d rather be lazy than tired, to be honest. You have people like Johan Derksen and John de Mol who still work more than a hundred hours a week. Then I really think: I wouldn’t do that.”
A mismatch
René no longer works on Wednesdays. Then Wierd Duk sits at the table, because René does not want to sit next to him. Why aren’t things going well between the gentlemen? De Telegraaf star: “I’m very bad at small talk. And at that table, small talk is essential. Because I can’t do that, I fall silent. And then Wilfred Genee probably thinks: that guy is actually really boring.”
He continues in the Panorama: “And René van der Gijp no longer wants to sit next to me, because he really depends on the quick chat and the laugh. I am much too serious for him. The funny thing is: in my own circle of friends there is a lot of laughter. We make ironic jokes there, we are witty. But at VI there is a completely different type of humor.”
Canteen humor
What kind of humor do they have in VI? “More the flat humor, the canteen humor,” says Wierd. “Because I can’t go along with that, René thinks I have no humor. It just doesn’t connect. Yet I can keep coming there for the different content.”
“I also find it fun, I’m fine with Raymond Mens or Thomas van Groningen. But I understand very well that this program needs elements that someone like me doesn’t bring.”