The radio show Xaver a host, broadcast nationwide on Czech Radio’s regional stations, had an unexpected end. Actor Tomáš Měcháček leaned on the moderator Luboš “Xaver” Veselý, whom he called a hypocrite and a coward in the tense atmosphere of the show.
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The show Xaver and the guest broadcast on the regional stations of Czech Radio had an unexpected end. In the end, the actor Tomáš Měcháček leaned into a moderator. | Video: Czech Radio
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Veselý asked Měcháček ten minutes before the end of the show what he was up to in the near future. The actor replied that he was working on his own stand-up, in which he wanted to deal with human hypocrisy. “It’s going to be an hour-long show. I don’t like hypocrisy and cowardice.
Luboš Veselý called Xaver
He started working as a moderator in 1996 at Radio Brno, from where he moved to Frekvence 1 in 2002, where he worked for 17 long years. He had his programs Cross-Examination and Pressklub, in which he conducted hundreds of interviews. Here, he has also met regularly with President Miloš Zeman since January 2015 on the program Presidential Pressklub. In 2017, he moved to moderate to internet television XTV. From June 2019 it is possible to hear it in talkshow Xaver a host on regional stations of Czech Radio.
He got his nickname Xaver when he arrived at Frequency 1. The then director of the program of this station, Barbora Tachecí, claimed that his birth name and surname, Lubomír Veselý, would not be so interesting, and she decided to label Xaver. “Why Xaver? I don’t know myself,” he told Aktuálně.cz this week.
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Veselý tried to keep the atmosphere relaxed and asked Měcháček if he would be invited to his stand-up. However, Měcháček continued to attack the moderator and, for example, expressed the presumption about who actually owns a private XTV, in which the moderator presents several programs (recently, for example, launched a regular program with former president Václav Klaus) and is critical of the opposition. , The European Union or the conditions on Czech Television.
“I have heard, I have not confirmed that XTV is paid by Russian intelligence. It is terrible. Those who killed two people in Vrbětice pay your television. It is terrible,” Měcháček said without further clarification or evidence.
Veselý then said that he liked to comment on everything and that he was for a discussion, but not as part of an entertainment program.
Listen to the mentioned part of the show at the beginning of the article.
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