It is inevitable that Albert Verlinde will only let his beloved Onno Hoes walk through their apartment building on a leash. They are now neighbors of his former toyboy.
It was a huge scandal in 2013: Onno Hoes, then mayor of Maastricht, was caught kissing with a man other than his husband Albert Verlinde. The gentlemen ended up in a huge relationship crisis, but never divorced and now they live happily together again. They recently moved.
Same building
However, Albert can be careful, because the toyboy that Onno was caught with at the time turns out to live in the same building. This Ruud Schepers, who at the time gave TV interviews to Patty Brard and Sophie Hilbrand, among others, wants to Veronica Superguide therefore do not go into too much detail about the affair of that time.
Ruud in the magazine: “Whether I talked afterwards with Albert and Onno about my interview with Sophie? Is that relevant to this article? I think we shouldn’t go that far. I’m not going to answer that. Onno and I have good contact again. In fact, we all live, including Albert, in the same building. I don’t want to argue with neighbours.”
TV appearances
Why did Ruud choose to peddle that affair in several TV interviews at the time? “I had already spoken to Patty Brard on SBS 6 about the whole matter, but I was not really satisfied with that. So when Sophie’s editors approached me a year later, I decided to accept the interview request.”
He thought it was a pleasant conversation, although he realized that Albert and Onno were probably not happy about it. “I remember that Albert did not want to make certain images available to Sophie’s program at the time.”
toyboy
This is what Onno’s ex-toyboy looks like these days:
