TV “No, I have no concrete plans. To be honest, I sign immediately as I tomorrow is back to the sportredactie could. But ‘rose is perish’, that I realize but too well.” Lieven Van Gils talk for the first time since it became known that the plug from his talk show “Van Gils & guests’ is drawn. The last few months, he worked on the canvas series ‘VDB. I am not god’.
Have exactly five weeks, to Thursday, may 9, Lieven Van Gils (55) host of ‘Van Gils & guests’. Afterwards, breaks for him a long vacation. Provisionally, without concrete plans. After ten years of praatshows is the time for something else. We talked with Lieven in Leuven, where VDB. I’m not god’ was presented, an excellent biopic about the life of cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke. For that series Of Gils interviews with sporting subjects, while he also was linked to the daily rhythm of ‘Gils & guests’. “A hectic period, yes. But I have no second doubts when they asked me if I wanted to work on this documentary series. On the contrary. I must confess that it immediately began to itch.”
“of Course, there is now a little devil in me toefluistert that I was better in the sports department was preserved. I implement really not the way. To be honest, I wanted to that way. In the sports department, you can be old. Just look at Frank Raes. At retirement age, but asked to be ‘Extra Time’ to continue. I was absolutely not looking forward to the wielerwereldje. Only, at a given moment, they are on my sleeve start to pull. Phara de Aguirre wanted me to take a test came to do. And she didn’t stopped…”
