Today Inside has lost a sponsor following statements by Johan Derksen in this week’s broadcasts. The football analyst appeared to say on Tuesday that he penetrated a woman with a candle in his younger years, although he said on Wednesday that there was no penetration. E-bike specialist Stella Cycling nevertheless withdraws from the program.
“Although Stella, as an e-bike manufacturer, is very fond of sports and exercise, including football, it distances itself from what happened in that broadcast,” the company said about Tuesday’s broadcast. Derksen’s confession was laughed at by the other diners, who joked about it. Talpa Network, responsible for the program, was not immediately available for comment on Thursday General Newspaper about the retiring sponsor.
State Secretary Gunay Uslu of Culture and Media also reacted indignantly to the two broadcasts of the TV program on Thursday. She finds the broadcasts ‘hurtful and humiliating for everyone who has had to deal with sexual violence and for their loved ones’. In June, Uslu will enter into talks with broadcasters, producers and behavioral experts. She previously did that in March and January, following the abuses at The Voice of Holland.
Johan Derksen reacts: ‘The candle could not enter her vagina’
Johan Derksen gave further explanation on Wednesday about his much-discussed confession.
Derksen said on Wednesday that the candle was ‘perpendicular to the air’ and not in the vagina of the woman in question. The incident is said to have occurred when he was 24 years old. “It was such a thousand-hour candle, it stands on such a pedestal, a very large thing. We took it, the lady was lying on the couch and we put it between her legs. When we left, that candle was perpendicular up in the air. You can’t put a thousand-hour candle in a vagina. There’s no such thing.”
“It is uncivilized, I was 24. You are ashamed of it,” acknowledged Derksen. “But I wanted to show that the image of the times has changed enormously. Now you are being slammed for everything, then you went over to the order of the day. But I can understand that many people who now cancel and are active in all kinds of movements, are not. experienced. They don’t know what I’m talking about.”