Johan Derksen is going to sign a new two-year contract and do a daily talk show on SBS 6 together with Wilfred Genee and René van der Gijp. General Newspaper Saturday. That means that 72-year-old Derksen will not retire next summer. The program will be shown on the television channel every evening from half past nine to ten thirty.
John de Mol allegedly put a bomb under the future of the men of Veronica Inside. “The three of you are going to do this daily program or the plug will be pulled,” was the message from the media tycoon, according to the newspaper. Last summer Derksen, Genee and Van der Gijp had an unexpectedly big hit with the program The the Dutch Summer. It pleased Derksen at the time that he had the freedom to express his opinion on any subject.
A year ago, Genee and Van der Gijp’s refusal to go daily led to an argument, because Derksen did listen. Now only Genee was the one who had to give in, because Derksen and Van der Gijp quickly agreed. Derksen showed up by phone on Friday afternoon The Telegraph know that the good news had not yet reached him. “But I’m not the one who still needed to be convinced. I’ll hear it tonight, then,” he said on Friday evening.
Derksen wanted to stop a year ago Veronica Inside, but was personally whistled back by De Mol, who kept him to his contract. In order not to come across as a moneylender, Derksen handed in half his salary: three tons went partly to a dog boarding house in Almere and to the Casper van Eijk foundation for research into pancreatic cancer. “When football could no longer be played last year because of corona, we just spent the hours on TV about the current events of the day. The management of Talpa saw this as an opportunity and wanted a daily show, after the Meilandjes. I liked that,” Derksen indicated in May about his decision to stop next summer.
“I’m kind of done with all this talk about Messi and Maradona. Everything that happens is predictable. But René thought five evenings was too much and Wilfred suddenly liked that radio show so much. I find it disgusting what they do there. With incredibly shitty music, Boulevard-like subjects and two grown people laughing at Wilfred for two hours. Well, that’s his choice. But then it’s time for me to stop. I no longer feel like babbling on,” emphasized Derksen, who now still gets his way with a daily talk show.