Wilfred Genee does not seem to be happy that ticket sales for the VI event in the Ziggo Dome have been so difficult. “There really is a difference with André Hazes Jr.”
Wilfred Genee regularly throws the latest merchandise from Today Inside on the table in Today Inside, but there is now some discomfort about this. According to media critic Victor Vlam, it is time for the program to really make a gesture to the fans, and not to use their supporters purely as some kind of docile cash cow.
VI Auction
The men of VI are raking under the leadership of Wilfred and as part of that the three of them were again in the Ziggo Dome last night, but shouldn’t they guard their borders a little better? They filled that room with pain and effort; at a certain point you could get two tickets for next to nothing at VakantieVeilingen.
Isn’t their commercial eagerness going a bit too far? Aren’t they exactly the same as André Hazes Jr. who fills a room in fits and starts? Yes, actually, Johan Derksen honestly admits. He finds it uncomfortable that they made fun of the folk singer on TV, but also had to use an auction site to fill the lot.
Not like Hazes
Wilfred Genee seems to be the most bothered by it. Every time he hears the word Holiday Auctions, he puts on a very serious face and shouts that it was all planned that way from the start. “They have not been dumping those tickets on Holiday Auctions recently, but since the beginning. Strong argument!” sneered debate expert Lars Duursma.
And now Wilfred has been asked again about those disappointing sales, namely in Show news. There he says that he does not think the comparison with André Hazes Jr. is justified. “There is a difference. The tickets below are not sold by VakantieVeilingen, and with him all tickets were sold at VakantieVeilingen.”
Honest Wilfred
News for Wilfred: André also only had the top ring offered at Holiday Auctions. According to André himself. Johan is a bit more sporty: “I also find that a horror, that I am described in the newspaper as a kind of André Hazes Jr. I find that terrible.”
Wilfred then reluctantly admits that things were indeed not going so well. “I honestly admit: it could have gone a bit faster, but when Johan shouts again, like yesterday in De Telegraaf: why do you actually go there and spend so much money? You can also say to all those people who come: ‘It’s good to have you here, everyone is fantastic.’”
‘Couldn’t go back’
According to Wilfred, Johan’s attitude did not help. “Johan, he is an independent spirit. Always kick something in,” says the presenter. Cancellation was no longer possible anyway, he continues. “We had to do it anyway, because it’s a New Year’s Eve conference that will be on TV and we couldn’t go back, right?”
Johan is done with it: “I think it’s ridiculous that some people have to pay so much. I would have given all those tickets to our fans for next to nothing, but you get involved in the entertainment world and I don’t want to be part of that. Just let me do that TV show and leave the rest alone.”