I’m just doing my job - Mr. Henrie responds to Kenzo over ‘hurtful’ comments

The host of the Deep Talk show said that although he has known and been friends with Kenzo for a long time, his show demands that he ask even the most uncomfortable questions to his guests.

“I have known him for quite some time, but at the end of the day, I don’t think that he thinks a lot about me when he is doing his music. He is doing his job and I am doing mine,” Mr. Henry opened up.

In an interview last week, Kenzo revealed that he turned down an invitation to Henrie’s talk show because he had called him illiterate in an earlier interview with another artist.

“There is a person who does a show called The Deep Talk,...he was interviewing another artist and he asked why they (musicians) could let an uneducated person be their president,” Kenzo recounted to Ruth Kalibbala.

“A short while afterward, that same person came asking me to sit on the same program. I told him I am not educated. What kind of conversation I’m I to have with you if I did not go to school?”

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Mr. Henrie yesterday confirmed calling Kenzo uneducated when he was interviewing Pallaso earlier in May this year.

At the time, Kenzo had just been elected President of the Uganda National Musicians Federation (UNMF).

Mr. Henrie, however, defended himself, stating that the question about Kenzo’s education was prepared for him by his producers and that he asked it in “a very respectful way.”

“In that interview, I asked Pallaso respectfully how they could choose someone that’s not educated and give him a federation,” he said.

“And before those words even left my mouth, I knew they would hurt Kenzo; but I have to be able to separate friendship and emotions from the job.

“The show I do has a whole team behind it and if they give me such a question, I have no right to not ask it.

“Professionally, whether I am interviewing the President or my mother, a question that has to be asked, has to be asked because it is what is the show demands,” he added.