Beau van Erven Dorens emerged from his horribly bad and unjournalistic interview with Gordon quite battered, according to media journalist Marcus den Blanken of the AD. “Difficult.”
It once again underlines why Beau van Erven Dorens is known as the man of twelve trades and thirteen accidents. He would like to cover a very broad TV palette, but it all turns out to be very difficult to combine. Who can take him seriously as the late talk show host of RTL 4 if he insults celebrities during prime time?
Non-critical Beau
As presenter of the entertaining Casa di Beau, Beau has completed the big comeback interview with Gordon, but it was so cringingly uncritical and tasteless (Goor opened up about a family trauma from his ex) that, according to media journalist Marcus den Blanken of the AD, it also reflects on his work as a late night talk show host.
He explains in the AD Media podcast: “What I find a bit difficult about this broadcast is that Beau will soon be back at the talk show table where Renze is now sitting and yes, then he will have to conduct critical interviews. And then as a viewer I still have difficulty: yes, I was watching you two weeks ago and then you let someone get away with everything.”
‘You shouldn’t want to’
Beau knowingly allowed his TV colleague Gordon to get away with a schizophrenia accusation against his ex, and this simply disappoints the presenter very much. And so he will soon have to interview politicians and news guests in a talk show again. “It doesn’t match. Then I don’t think you should invite people like Gordon.”
His colleague Angela de Jong agrees: “Gordon is too controversial and too much has happened for such a let’s-just-pamper-each-other-and-another- open-a-bottle-of-booze-and-I’ll-put-on-a-crazy-hat-and-we’ll-go-paragliding program. You just shouldn’t want that. You just really don’t want to.”
Psychic labels
Everyone sees that Gordon has gone too far in that program, and according to Angela, Beau should have seen that too. “You can’t call someone schizophrenic, dear Gordon. Or to pull someone out of the closet with all kinds of psychological labels attached to them.”
It’s also a shame for Gordon, Marcus thinks. “Gordon has a sense of humor. But yes, among all those nice, funny things, there is a very large narcissistic personality, which sometimes makes it not so funny anymore. And we also noticed that in this broadcast. Of course everyone did it again. Everything was guilty, but Gordon? No, it wasn’t his fault.”
Pathetic man
Marcus fully agrees with Jack van Gelder. “He said it beautifully: ‘He’s just a pathetic man.’ Then as RTL you have to say: we won’t show him on screen for a while, because he can’t handle that.”
Ultimately, Gordon’s comeback turned out to be more of a setback. “It’s a bit sad, because now he has made a kind of comeback with this interview and yes, he actually broke all the glasses he had in which he was allowed to drink again, and he also smashed them all with bottles of drinks. Yes, that’s not helpful. No.”