Johan Derksen reiterated on Wednesday evening that he does not intend to take the undesirable behavior course. The subject was discussed on Tuesday evening, but Derksen already announced that he was not looking forward to taking the course. The television personality believes that after 55 years of walking ‘unscathed’ in the media world, he does not have to take another exam at the age of 75.
Job Knoester brought up the course on Tuesday evening. The lawyer and also dinner guest Today Inside indicated that the course is mandatory, but Derksen did not want to know about it. De Mustache called it ‘nonsense’ and pointed to his contract, which does not state that he is obliged to take such a course. A spokeswoman for Talpa, Derksen’s employer, said on Wednesday afternoon Algemeen Dagblad record that of the former editor-in-chief of Football International it is indeed expected that he will sit down.
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Wilfred Genee brought up the course again on Wednesday evening. Derksen left no room for misunderstanding: his position has not changed. “First of all, I didn’t receive a course. I have decided for myself: I am 75 years old, I have been in this media profession for 55 years. I started as the youngest employee, as editor-in-chief I had to deal with a sexual harassment committee, I sat on the works council, I stopped as creative director and am now a Talpa star. With emphasis on that. I don’t want to be bothered by young people who think up or demand these, stupid exams. If the management is smart, they will forget to forward that thing to me.”
Derksen expresses the hope that it will not become a ‘prestige matter’. “That doesn’t help anyone. But of course I don’t want to participate in that craziness”, that’s what it sounded like. Derksen could count on support from the audience, because some of them did not quite treat him to a standing ovation. Even Genee was impressed. Derksen thinks that the course is a ‘requirement’ from ‘outside’. “This is what the whole mood in the Netherlands is becoming. If I walk around unscathed in the media world for 55 years, I don’t have to be 75e no more exams to take.”
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