Derksen hits hard at the Netherlands
Johan Derksen has been involved in several riots during his career. In 2022, the former footballer unleashed a certain riot by telling a juicy story, with the result that Today Inside almost died.
Derksen was insinuated eight months ago by a woman who was penetrated with a candle. “It was the story of a brat who is naughty at such a young age,” it quotes General Journal. “I told it to make it clear to all those people, who supposedly have nothing to record, that that is of course nonsense. This country is full of hypocrites. I felt very vulnerable then for my doing.”
“I wanted to make it clear that I was not a saint. That all those people who are Danny de Munk, that director of The Voice, who owe Johnny de Mol, that they might even have a story. But they are acting at talk show tables with sanctimonious talk. My story has been completely misunderstood. The awakened community will not understand, who only protest and are good,” continues the much-discussed analyst.
Overdone
The parties involved decided to boycott Today Inside and Derksen, where a banner with the text ‘rapist’ hung in his village of Grolloo. The old footballer himself remained calm. “The country was in turmoil, but should I also be in turmoil? If you say something on TV, you quickly panic, don’t you? A day after that first broadcast, nothing happened. Then came the storm of social media and the rumor began. I remember my wife coming home that day and saying, “I just heard on the radio that there was some commotion. What are people concerned about? I buried that story of yours 25 years ago’.”
Derksen calls it ‘a juicy anecdote’. The fuss did not bother him individually, but that Talpa dropped him. “Talpa went on to reveal sanctimonious press releases that we are going to apologize. Well, I wasn’t going to do that at all. If the whole of the Netherlands is angry, then I have no problem with that. If your own employer starts behaving so well. (…) John de Mol should have stepped forward and said: ‘I am very satisfied with those guys. They make high-profile TV, they have good viewing figures and I take those two riots a year into the bargain.’ Then it would have been done.”
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