Genee told that at the table at Op1 last night. Johan Derksen and René van der Gijp are furious with the presenter. They believe Genee dropped them in the broadcast early last week. It was about racism.
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That broadcast attracted 1.7 million viewers. In the well-watched broadcast, Derksen said at the beginning that he does not want to apologize for his statements about rapper Akwasi. “I don’t put on the penance and I don’t go through the dust,” he said.
“I didn’t like myself”
Wilfred Genee says that he was in ‘a complete split’ and that the theme broadcast has not come out well. “I was not satisfied, I didn’t like myself,” Genee looks back. “I was leader of the conversation about racism and presenter of Veronica Inside.”
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Several guests were invited to ‘enter into a dialogue’. Former footballer Dries Boussatta and lawyer Natasja Harlequin accepted the offer and sat at the table. Other players of the Dutch national team did not want to appear in the program anymore.
The VI presenter calls it “absurd” what happened. “A million euros in sponsor money evaporated in one weekend. A new sponsor dropped out and all advertisers said they would not continue. It is ridiculous if you think about it.”
Watch the conversation at Op1 here:
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Panic at Talpa
There was also panic at Talpa, says Genee. “I think the essence is that you will look at the time frame and ask yourself: can you still say everything? On the one hand I say ‘yes’, but you can also ask yourself looking at the consequences: what is actually happening, what exactly do we say? If you hurt so many people with that, you have to see if it is always possible. “
“I had no choice”
“You see what the emotions of these two men are, that has also done me a lot,” Genee responds to the furious reactions of Derksen and Van der Gijp. The two men have said that they no longer want to sit with Genee at the table in Veronica Inside.
The last broadcast of the season has also been canceled. “I deeply regret that these two men think I screwed them,” said Genee. “I may have put myself a little too much into being the independent moderator, but I couldn’t help myself in that role.”
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