Loretta Schrijver, who died at the age of 68, not only leaves her new dog Zorra, but also her 84-year-old friend Lou Vaz Dias. “In fact, very few people have ever seen him.”
Loretta Schrijver had been sick for some time, but nobody knew she was already in such an advanced stage: she died in the hospital’s effects of cancer in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, at 4.00 am. She leaves her sixteen year older friend Lou Vaz Dias, who took care of the presenter in the final phase of her life.
“Nobody knows him!”
Coincidentally, this 84-year-old Lou came up in January during Ranking The Stars, where Loretta was a guest. “We have never seen your Lou, isn’t it? Nobody knows your Lou,” presenter Paul de Leeuw notes in the episode in question. “We don’t know who your Lou is. How old is your Lou now?”
When Loretta then indicates the age of her boyfriend, it suddenly becomes very quiet in the studio. “Oh, really?!”, Gordon shouts. Loretta then: “Yes, really, but he is big, he is strong, he looks like 64, he is handsome, he is sweet.”
Bonversion
Johan Derksen tells in the Today Inside from last night that he knows Lou personally. “I know her husband too and that is also a bon vivant. She now really belongs to the small group of people that nobody hates.”
Show expert Bart Ettekoven puts in Shownieuws From: “Loretta and Lou had a special relationship. In those thirty years they did not live together all the time. They did have a house together, but both their own places and very few people have ever seen him. He never went to premieres, he didn’t like the TV profession either.”
Orange
Eline de Ruig, also one of the faces of the show section, sits next to Bart aan de Desk. She has worked with Loretta for years and has met Lou. “Then we went to a theater performance. It was very sweet, because he was in the doorway with an orange for all of us for the road and a bottle of drinks.”
She continues: “A very caring and sweet man who also watched all the broadcasts of Coffee Time and if he thought something was wrong, then Loretta would also be told. He could be super familiar and then Loretta could also say the next day:” Yes, Lou said it and this and this and this was not right! We have to pay attention! “”
Journalist
What background does Lou have? Bart: “For he was a journalist, right? With somewhat more serious media, I believe.”
Eline: “Yes, he was really very important to her. On a personal level, of course, but also on that TV surface he could give her many good tips and be honest. He was the love of her life and it is such a sweet, caring man. It is very sad for him to let her go like that.”
Bart: “He is quite older than Loretta, which she has never found a problem, but in the end she leaves him alone.”
Dear guy
David van Gennep, a friend of Loretta, says Beau About Lou. “Yes, she has a very sweet guy, Lou, and if you see the two together … That is beautiful, that’s nice. They can laugh with each other, but also fight each other. (…) That partner who mourns now. He has lost his wife.”
“In recent years, of course, he has experienced terrible moments with ups and downs and that cancer that just kept coming back endlessly, so yes, it will now also be completely through it. I was sitting at the table tonight and thought: I should actually call him and say,” dude, do you actually have a shoulder to cry? “
“Oooooh Lou!”
Loretta recently told Paul de Leeuw in the podcast that they were going to live together at the end. “That is due to the circumstances, but we have gelat a lot together. He was a friend of my father and I had known him for some time. I just worked at the television, I came out of the dry cleaner in Maasstraat.”
“And I heard someone say,” Hello Loretta. ” I thought: oh, it’s someone who recognizes me again and then he put his glasses on and he said, “you don’t know me anymore?” And then I shouted, “Oooh, Louuu!” Because that was Lou, nice and slim. I was then 35. ”
Boom
There are no photos of Loretta and Lou together. A journalist from De Telegraaf saw him in December, during a interview With Loretta. “At that moment Lou, a tree -length man with gray hair and a cheerful face, comes the spiral staircase. He maneuvers the last part along the seat of the stairlift,” could be read in the newspaper.
The funeral of Loretta will take place in a closed circle.