Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 8:59 PM• Jordi Tomasowa • Last update: 21:09

Tom Egbers cannot be seen as a presenter in the broadcast of NOS Studio Sport Eredivisie on Sunday. The broadcaster indicates that Egbers ‘wants to offer peace to the editors and the program’. The 65-year-old presenter came into the large-scale investigation on Friday The Volkskrant to editorial misconduct NOS Sports extensive offer. It is not yet known who will replace Egbers on Sunday.

From research of The Volkskrant shows that (former) employees and other people involved have had to deal with bullying, sexism and exclusion. Egbers and Jack van Gelder in particular do not fare well. The NOS let us know that we will talk to all employees who appear in the article. According to various editors, Egbers is guilty of bullying and (sexual) intimidation.

In addition, in 2005, at the age of 48, Egbers would have briefly had an affair with a 22-year-old intern. In addition, he would also have exhibited forms of stalking behavior. Egbers would have harassed the trainee until she finally fell for the overtures. When the affair was over, it caused an unhealthy situation for the editors The Volkskrant. Egbers is said to have called the intern ‘the poison’, ‘serpent’ and ‘the axis of evil’ in the presence of various employees. In addition, when she walked by, he made hand gestures with which he pretended to cut her throat.

In response to the inquiry, Egbers expressed regret. “I look back on this whole period as an exceptionally sad one, in which I made mistakes. I regret that. Unfortunately I can’t take it back.” The presenter went even deeper into the dust. “Our relationship as such I deeply regret now, many years later. Because of the grief I’ve caused in my private life with it. The fact that she was in her twenties at the time and I was in my forties also counts heavily for me, looking back after all these years.” Egbers is also accused of subjectivity in the investigation. In 2019, for example, he would have become angry in the workplace when a PSV fan was cheering for a goal from his club in the editorial office, after which Egbers later in the afternoon cheered loudly and provocatively after a goal from Ajax.