‘Hypocritical’ Eva Jinek and Sjaak Polak pilloried after Derksen riot


Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 13:44• Tom Rofekamp • Last update: 14:03

Eva Jinek and Sjaak Polak are under heavy fire because of a video that is still on the website of her talk show. In February 2020, the presenter invited the former professional to the broadcast, who told an anecdote about tying teammate Anthony Obodai to a massage table. Polak would then have applied ‘Red Hot’ – a spicy balm – to the buttocks of the Ghanaian. In the light of the riot around Johan Derksen, Jinek and Polak are also called to account.

In the fragment, Jinek invites Polak to tell his story, which she dismisses as ‘dressing room humor’. The former left back blows out about his period at Sparta Rotterdam. “Obodai always walked down the hall naked because he had such a fantastic body. Stark naked. He would always say: I am the king† Then I said: ‘Now you have to stop, because you are only a Smurf’. Then he walked back to that massage table.”

Polak says that he and his former teammate Ricky van den Bergh grabbed Obodai and tied up the Ghanaian. “I walked very quietly to the medical cabinet and took out one of those wooden spatulas. I grabbed ‘Red Hot’ – a pretty spicy balm – and looked into his sphincter. I just kept waiting for him to relax and hit that spatula. on his tailbone. Eventually I’ll get him down through his buttocks, through that scrotum.”

The fragment, dating from February 19, 2020, is currently going viral on the internet and is among the most viewed videos on dumper† Former party leader of D66 Alexander Pechtold can also be seen smiling on the fragment, which was published by The Limburger was brought up from the past. Current party leader of D66 Sigrid Kaag condemned Derksen’s incident last week. The incident on the broadcast of Jinek is placed in the context of that riot.

Derks told Tuesday at Today Inside that in his younger years he placed a candle in the body of an unconscious woman. As a result, the 73-year-old analyst was discredited. There was a storm of criticism, sponsors who pulled the plug on the collaboration and a dinner guest who refused to sit in the program any longer. The chief officer of the Public Prosecution Service North Netherlands also decided to initiate an investigation.

Derksen declined to apologize. Talpa Network spoke to the team of the program on Thursday and did not want to pull the plug. Stopping the program hastily does not contribute to a solution NU.nl. Derksen said he regretted his behavior. Talpa reacted immediately after the statements by ‘firmly distance’ from the statements of the television personality. Talpa CEO Paul Römer already took an advance at the end of the program on Friday morning. “In any case, it is Derksen’s farewell, but I do not know whether it is the end of the program,” said Römer at NPO Radio 1† “I think we should always keep talking, but this is his conclusion. At some point it will stop. I don’t think he can be persuaded anymore.”

On Friday it was announced that Today Inside will no longer be on television. Both Derksen, René van der Gijp and Wilfred Genee stop. Under the former name VI Today, the program has been broadcast every working day on SBS6 since the beginning of this calendar year. This ended the trio’s previous talk show: Veronica Inside. In the new format, regular guests who had no direct connection with football joined. In 2001 the program was shown for the first time on Dutch television, albeit in a different form. They started under the name Voetbal International, as it was directly linked to the weekly magazine of the same name, of which Derksen was editor-in-chief. Afterwards, the name of the talk show changed to RTL Voetbal Insite, Voetbal Insite, Voetbal Inside and Veronica Inside, and various spin-offs were shown during the European and World Cups.