Leco van Zadelhoff, the living powder brush of Caroline Tensen, has behaved cross-border against Floortje Dessing in the past. “Of course that touched me,” says the TV star.
The talks that Leco van Zadelhoff is allowed to give in RTL Boulevard are anything but inclusive. He talks the viewers into a kind of complex night after night. People with a ‘turkey neck’? On the neck lift! Older men? They should really think about an eyelid correction. And are you a little pale? Self-tanner spray on it!
Leco demolishes Floortje
Is this the message that RTL Boulevard wants to convey? That everyone with ‘imperfections’ has to go through the car wash with Leco and his scalpel buddies?
In any case, Floortje Dessing is not waiting for Leco and his brush set. At the beginning of her career, in 1995, she was once extremely offended by this make-up artist. He entered the dressing room at RTL, saw Floortje and then shouted: “Jeez, what should I do with you?”
What a box.
‘Of course it touches’
What does Floortje think of this borderline behavior by Leco? In the AD: “Of course that touched me. I was in an environment where everything revolved around appearances. To be beautiful. It was ‘nice women’ and ‘hard the best’. And I wasn’t. I have always had to have more of my character.”
It had an impact on Floortje. “The fact that I still remember it 25 years later is not because I have such a delicate soul, but it does say something about the spirit of the times. I didn’t fit in the list of Leontine Ruiters, Caroline Tensen. A comment like that, I don’t want to make it bigger than it is, but you can feel it.”
Naked vole
Both Leontine and Caroline belong to Leco’s regular clientele. The three of them form a kind of hot air triangle. For decades, Leco has pretended to deliver a work of art when he trims Caroline’s bob. “Leco and I have created something together,” she recently said.
Did Leco actually make any other victims besides Floortje? Yes, Daphne Deckers. “Leco once bleached my eyebrows. I looked like a naked vole!”