The subject of this week's Mooiste Meisje van de klas show on VTM proved her credentials — by leaving her husband to go back to her old boyfriend from her schooldays.
The show — the title means The Prettiest Girl in the Class — is a light entertainment which brings some old school chums together again decades later for a bit of wistful nostalgia about teenage crushes and budding romance.
Or that's the plan, at any rate.
When VTM brought on Wendy Melotte, however, they didn't reckon on the lasting power of her fluttering eyelashes. Twenty years after she saw him for the last time, Wendy was confronted with Roger Van Briel, a bus driver who had been her sweetheart when she was 14 and he three years older.
It was love at second sight. "It was something magical," she explained later. "I thought to myself: I'm never going to let you go again. You want to suppress a feeling like that, but it just didn't work."
Roger, clearly, felt the same way. She took the two kids and left her husband. He walked out on his wife and two children and moved in with Wendy.
And they all lived happily ever after. Well, apart from the two deserted spouses, and the four uprooted children, but still: there's something utterly charming about such a heart-warming story, don't you think?
What do you think? Is there a boy or girl from your schooldays you wouldn't mind falling in love with all over again? Would it make a difference if he was a busdriver, or if she came complete with two kids and a massively disgruntled husband? Let us know your views in comments.
