Wilfred Genee yesterday in the live broadcast of Today Inside the duckface imitated that Matthijs van Nieuwkerk always puts on when he is in front of the camera. “Open your mouth!”
Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s big sorry interview is a fact: three extra trees were cut down to get that huge story in the newspaper and today it is everywhere in newsstands. It was already online yesterday, including the entire photo report. Matthijs with a funny hat, Matthijs with his dog, the dog that runs after that hat, and so on.
Prima donna
Where you expect some humility from someone who goes through the dust, the entire photo report with Matthijs says something completely different. That just screams vanity. Awkward, find critics such as Ton F. van Dijk: “The photo is a pity in an interview like this, in which it is about what went wrong in raw reality. So why an ‘invented’ photo?”
Johan Derksen finds the star behavior, he calls in Inside today. “He really acts like a prima donna, a Hollywood star. Photos may not be posted until he has approved them.”
Mouth open
Colleague Wilfred Genee then seizes the opportunity to purse his lips and put on a Matthijs imitation. “Yes, if the mouth is open. So, right?”, he says, putting on a kind of duckface XL.
John: “Yes. And interviews indeed by e-mail. “Send the questions and we can do something.” I was very disappointed about the interview, because the man was there for three days, but he could have done this in an hour, because he doesn’t really say anything. He has been prompted by his environment to go deep through the dust.”
slapjanus
Matthijs goes quite deep into the dust, but it is also a lot of self-pity. For example, he tells extensively that he no longer dared to go to his village pub. That he tried a few times, even held the door handle and then stopped. Johan: “I thought it was the story of a wimp. That theatrical thing of him being at the door of the village pub…”
Wilfred: “He already had his hand on the handle! The hand on the latch! At De Hoofdige Boer!”
To Talpa?
The big question is where Matthijs will soon return to TV. According to the presenter, there are no concrete plans yet, but such a sorry interview is of course the prelude to a new, lucrative TV contract.
Wilfred: “Frans Klein must have raked it in, right?”
Johan: “I can think of no other reason to bring Frans Klein to Talpa than to bring in Matthijs.”
NRC interview
The NRC interview with Matthijs: