Mariska Hulscher (born 8 March 1964, inDelft) is a Dutch TV presenter who worked for theNCRV,RTL 4, andRTL 5. Hulscher is also a columnist for a variety of magazines, and works as a divorce coach.
After getting herVWO diploma, Hulscher studied law at theLeiden University, graduating in 1989. After her studies she worked in marketing and management, and was editor of various consumer advocacy magazines.
She was discovered for television byFons van Westerloo, then director of programming forRTL 5, one of the Dutch commercial channels. Hulscher presented TV shows, mainly on fashion and beauty,[1] for RTL 4 andRTL 5 (the RTL group's second channel in the Netherlands), then left forVeronica, and in 1998 moved to the Protestant public broadcasterNCRV. In 2002 she returned to RTL 4 where she presented, until 2006, the fashion programLookingGood.
In 2009 Hulscher, who by then had become a relationship coach, published her first book on coaching,Ja, ik wil!.[2]
From 1993 to 2002 she was married to Bert Hulscher, whose last name she kept.[3] They had two daughters. In 2006 she married TV directorAry Schouwenaar; the marriage lasted for two months.[2][4] Media coverage afterward was scathing, since Hulscher refused to comment on the divorce though before the marriage she courted media attention, according toTrouw,[5] with the fashion magazineJacky getting an exclusive on the wedding photos, and gossip magazineStory paying for the honeymoon (toBali) in exchange for the photographs. In the aftermath Hulscher was severely criticized in the media and called awful names, and the affair was a hot item onRTL Boulevard and other shows.[1][6][7]
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