Winston Gerschtanowitz is a pseudo-conman who should not be allowed to present family shows on television at all, Johan Derksen thinks. “This is also a kind of transgressive behavior.”
The image of Winston Gerschtanowitz has been badly damaged now that it appears that he has used both Beau van Erven Dorens and Jan Terlouw to promote his highly questionable ‘charity’ EarthToday. He was criticized by several guests yesterday in the talk show of Eva Jinek, where he denied being a kind of Sywert van Lienden.
Pseudo scammer
It is disgusting that Winston and his group of friends are trying to make billions of euros profit over the backs of well-meaning people, says Johan Derksen in Today Inside† “Jan Terlouw has been framed. (…) I don’t understand why those people are so obsessed with money that they come up with these kinds of constructions and also defend it.”
Johan believes that such a person cannot be on television. “I think this is actually a kind of transgressive behavior that he is now showing. Exceeding standards of decency and surreptitiously filling your pockets. People like that shouldn’t present family shows with a broad professional smile, because there’s just a pseudo-swindler talking to you there.”
Lying to Wilfred
Wilfred asked Winston a few months ago if he wouldn’t play ‘Sywertje’. “I sat on stage with him and then I literally said to him: ‘It’s not a Sywertje, I hope, is it?’ He said, “No, no, it’s all for a good cause.” ‘But there is no other business model to it?’ ‘No, it doesn’t have a revenue model.’ That now appears to be the case.”
Winston is not happy with Wilfred’s criticism. “Winston sent me (…) a text saying he would have appreciated it if I called him. He says, “It’s still true what I told you that afternoon.” (…) Then I think: in itself it can all be correct and in itself there is nothing wrong with it, if you had just told it. Isn’t that what it’s about?”
Very strange
Wilfred is not convinced. “Isn’t this very special? (…) By the way, I called him back several times and also texted him and asked if he could call him, but unfortunately he hasn’t done that anymore. It’s all a bit clumsy, isn’t it? In the end, that’s what it comes down to when you communicate it that way. What Angela actually wrote†
René van der Gijp: “I used to agree with Angela de Jong’s column. That hit the nail on the head.”
Johan: “It is presented as: we are going to save nature without profit. That’s how it is brought. (…) It is our smoothest colleague we have.”
Same as Sywert
Wilfred: “That nature story is actually used to set up something else that you can earn money with. That’s the same as with Sywert. If he had said at the time: ‘I can arrange those mouth caps, but I’m going to earn from them…’ You create a different illusion, that’s what it’s about. You create the illusion that you are working for a good cause and then it turns out that there is something else behind it.”
Johan: “I can imagine that John de Mol also finds this very unpleasant.”
Wilfred: “John de Mol is back in his company that has invested in this, so he must have discussed it with him as well.”
Johan: “Then John de Mol is not happy with our texts for the second time tonight.”
René: “Winston, old slippery slope. He’s a slippery slope, isn’t he, that Winston? Of course man, sure.”
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