A special day for Julia Boschman (19). On Saturday she was on stage with Hanne and Marthe for the first time since she made her appearance at K3 a week ago. And she’s been with her boyfriend for exactly three years, and he hasn’t forgotten that.
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Nineteen-year-old Julia Boschman would normally experience her big baptism of fire at K3 this weekend during the ‘Great Sinterklaas show’ by Studio 100 in the Sportpaleis. But that party could not go on due to the tightened corona measures. Not in a room for thousands of children, anyway. The show – with Mega Mindy, Piet Piraat and Samson, among others – was recorded for TV.
Among the few spectators in the Sportpaleis were Julia’s boyfriend, her parents, her brother and his girlfriend. Julia didn’t know anything. “She (Hanne and Marthe, nvdr.) had to say to me afterwards: did you take a good look at the room?” Positive, Marthe thought, because that meant that Julia was focused during her debut.
After the show, Julia walked over to her family. Her boyfriend, Ben (23), brought a surprise: a bunch of flowers. “I am very proud of her anyway,” he told us afterwards. “It was her first appearance for K3. And we’ve been together three years today.”
“We met when I was on stage – I played in the musical Grease. She came and saw me standing on the podium. And apparently she liked it. I got to know her afterwards in the foyer – I already knew her mother. Then we started talking and a few weeks later we hit it off.”
The flowers provoked Julia’s response: “Now we can’t part anymore.” Ben reacted afterwards to our newspaper: “I didn’t intend to, and I don’t think she did either.”
Julia finally: “Normally I’m not soggy and cute. But yes, we have been together for three years today, so that is allowed.”
Wim Dehandschieter
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