Jack Van Gelder will be joining the talk show again Monday night HLF8. “I don’t know why I wouldn’t be there,” Van Gelder told the National Ports Agency on Monday. Talpa could not be reached for comment.
The 72-year-old Van Gelder is a regular face of the SBS talk show. Last week it was missing from the table. According to presenter Helen Hendrix, the broadcaster decided to “take a break” after the big show VolkskrantAn article on aggressive behavior in NOS Sport.
Van Gelder, who himself has been active in that TV show for decades, said the day before the article was published HLF8 Reports of overriding behavior have also been reported.
According to him, one of the reports was about an incident where a female colleague called him in 2011 or 2012 when he was in the bathroom. “A wonderful story,” Van Gelder himself called it. “Then she asked if I wanted to be her mentor. And then I would make the comment: If you come and sit with me in the bathroom, okay. Well, that’s a joke to me, but it hit her hard, off.”
In another incident, the presenter was said to have used “whore or other terms” on a female colleague. Van Gelder apologized for the first incident.
