In the large-scale study of the Volkskrant to editorial misconduct NOS Sports Tom Egbers is also extensively discussed. According to various editors, the 65-year-old presenter is guilty of bullying and (sexual) harassment. 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 intern until she finally fell for overtures. When the affair was over, it caused an unhealthy situation at the editorial office, according to the Volkskrant. Egbers is said to have referred to the intern in the presence of various employees as ‘the poison’, ‘serpent’ and ‘the axis of evil’. In addition, when she walked by, he made hand gestures with which he pretended to cut her throat.”
In a response to the investigation, Egbers expresses 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.” Egbers goes 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.
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Bee Inside today Johan Derksen concluded on Friday evening that it is all ‘a storm in a teacup’. The high-profile analyst stated that it is especially painful for Egbers’ wife. “She has called herself a moral preacher at all those talk show tables that people who have complaints should report to her. Her husband is the only one to complain about!” Chris Woerts, who was a guest at the bar, was of the opinion that Egbers cannot appear on television on Sunday.
“Tom Egbers can no longer present Studio Sport on Sunday, can he? That’s not possible yet? No,” says Woerts. “That he has kissed people, okay, but that he has stalked and insulted girls, or has shown annoying behavior. Then he can never appear on TV with his face on Sunday.” Derksen agrees with Woerts. “Tom Egbers has created an impossible situation. Also to his wife. She looks like a monkey, if you see those old images of her. Tom made a fool of her, she is in a very difficult situation.”