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Extracted from “Joost & Amor – behind the scenes” by Gavin Prins and published by Zebra Press, an imprint of Random House Struik.
The Excerpt is taken from Chapter 10 ( from the last paragraph of page 109) and is published with permission from Random House Struik.
When I walked into the kykNET building on the Monday morning after the Joost story broke, Loui and Eagan were already sitting in the makeup room, eating sandwiches.
Both wanted to know everything about the sex video. Then Annemarie pitched up, followed by Caroline. Christo arrived later.
During the production meeting, which we held in the make-up studio,Christo looked at me and then at Loui: ‘Isn’t it amazing how friends stab each other in the back? Would you put me on the front page of a newspaper if I was in a sex video?’
The remark was clearly aimed at me.
‘Eagan, you worked at Beeld. And you know the Van der Westhuizens well. What would you have done?’ Christo asked him, glancing at me with a smile.
Doreen came in at that point. Christo fell silent, looking at his notes and scrabbling about for stories for the programme.
There was always order when Doreen joined the meeting – no discussions about who had slept with whom and how well endowed they were. Order.
I am not a prude. But there is a time and a place for that kind of talk.
And a make-up studio, where we were supposed to be deciding on a programme that we were to record in an hour, was certainly not the right place.
‘I would prefer it if we didn’t talk in too much detail about the Joost sex video, please,’ I said.
‘What can you say about it on the programme?’ asked Christo. ‘We can’t ignore it. I’ve brought today’s paper along.’ He held up a copy of Beeld.
Joost and the video – the underpants, the socks and the tattoo
Philip de Bruin
Ex-Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen wants an urgent interdict to allow him to see the video which allegedly shows an unidentified woman having oral sex with him.
Underpants and socks, which he apparently does not posessess, and a tattoo, which he does have, will be the leading ‘evidence’ of his innocence. Van der Westhuizen has also stated that, three weeks ago, he received a threatening phone call warning him that the ‘c**p’ was about to begin.
Rapport carried a story yesterday on the existence of the alleged video and published a frame from the video. In the picture it looks as though a man with dark hair is sniffing something; pink female underwear is visible close to his nose.
According to the report, the video shows the man and woman (possibly a prostitute) sniffing a white powder.
The Beeld article further stated that Joost and Amor vehemently denied that it was him in the video, and that Joost had not applied for a court order on the Saturday when he first heard about the video – he had nothing to hide.
According to him, there were people bent on ‘destroying’ him and his family. They were trying to split up Amor and him. Joost also said that he did not get even a glimpse of the video before the report was published and therefore could not really react to it.
‘That is why I have decided to apply for an interdict granting me the right to see the video.’
The article continued:
The man in the video had stripped his clothes off right down to ‘black Polo socks and white underpants with holes in them’, according to Rapport.
‘If they judge by the allegations in the report, everyone who knows me will know that it could not be me in the video,’ Van der Westhuizen said yesterday. ‘… I do not possess any Polo socks of any colour.
‘… I do not possess a single pair of underpants, of any colour, with holes in them. If they mean holes as in worn-out patches, that’s just nonsense. Our domestic servant has strict instructions to discard any worn clothing.’
Joost said that he wore ‘ordinary Jockeys’, and he had a tattoo on his buttocks that would have been clearly visible in the video. He also stated categorically that he had never taken any drugs of any kind. ‘I do not sniff substances,’ he said.
The only thing he was prepared to state at that stage was that three weeks ago he had received a call from a man who had told him in Afrikaans: ‘The c**p is starting for you now.’ Joost said that that explained ‘everything’.
Joost added that he and his wife had reaffirmed their love for one another and that she was being ‘unbelievably’ supportive.
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The Excerpt is taken from Chapter 10 ( from the last paragraph of page 109) and is published with permission from Random House Struik.
When I walked into the kykNET building on the Monday morning after the Joost story broke, Loui and Eagan were already sitting in the makeup room, eating sandwiches.
Both wanted to know everything about the sex video. Then Annemarie pitched up, followed by Caroline. Christo arrived later.
During the production meeting, which we held in the make-up studio,Christo looked at me and then at Loui: ‘Isn’t it amazing how friends stab each other in the back? Would you put me on the front page of a newspaper if I was in a sex video?’
The remark was clearly aimed at me.
‘Eagan, you worked at Beeld. And you know the Van der Westhuizens well. What would you have done?’ Christo asked him, glancing at me with a smile.
Doreen came in at that point. Christo fell silent, looking at his notes and scrabbling about for stories for the programme.
There was always order when Doreen joined the meeting – no discussions about who had slept with whom and how well endowed they were. Order.
I am not a prude. But there is a time and a place for that kind of talk.
And a make-up studio, where we were supposed to be deciding on a programme that we were to record in an hour, was certainly not the right place.
‘I would prefer it if we didn’t talk in too much detail about the Joost sex video, please,’ I said.
‘What can you say about it on the programme?’ asked Christo. ‘We can’t ignore it. I’ve brought today’s paper along.’ He held up a copy of Beeld.
Joost and the video – the underpants, the socks and the tattoo
Philip de Bruin
Ex-Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen wants an urgent interdict to allow him to see the video which allegedly shows an unidentified woman having oral sex with him.
Underpants and socks, which he apparently does not posessess, and a tattoo, which he does have, will be the leading ‘evidence’ of his innocence. Van der Westhuizen has also stated that, three weeks ago, he received a threatening phone call warning him that the ‘c**p’ was about to begin.
Rapport carried a story yesterday on the existence of the alleged video and published a frame from the video. In the picture it looks as though a man with dark hair is sniffing something; pink female underwear is visible close to his nose.
According to the report, the video shows the man and woman (possibly a prostitute) sniffing a white powder.
The Beeld article further stated that Joost and Amor vehemently denied that it was him in the video, and that Joost had not applied for a court order on the Saturday when he first heard about the video – he had nothing to hide.
According to him, there were people bent on ‘destroying’ him and his family. They were trying to split up Amor and him. Joost also said that he did not get even a glimpse of the video before the report was published and therefore could not really react to it.
‘That is why I have decided to apply for an interdict granting me the right to see the video.’
The article continued:
The man in the video had stripped his clothes off right down to ‘black Polo socks and white underpants with holes in them’, according to Rapport.
‘If they judge by the allegations in the report, everyone who knows me will know that it could not be me in the video,’ Van der Westhuizen said yesterday. ‘… I do not possess any Polo socks of any colour.
‘… I do not possess a single pair of underpants, of any colour, with holes in them. If they mean holes as in worn-out patches, that’s just nonsense. Our domestic servant has strict instructions to discard any worn clothing.’
Joost said that he wore ‘ordinary Jockeys’, and he had a tattoo on his buttocks that would have been clearly visible in the video. He also stated categorically that he had never taken any drugs of any kind. ‘I do not sniff substances,’ he said.
The only thing he was prepared to state at that stage was that three weeks ago he had received a call from a man who had told him in Afrikaans: ‘The c**p is starting for you now.’ Joost said that that explained ‘everything’.
Joost added that he and his wife had reaffirmed their love for one another and that she was being ‘unbelievably’ supportive.
Click here for part 2.
