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entertainment">In a YouTube video, Maurits Hazeleger, Emma’s 22-year-old friend, tells that he was sitting next to Henny in the car when Show news called. “They had received ‘as many as eighteen tips’ that he would become a great-grandfather. We were of course shocked. He initially denied on the phone: ‘No, that’s not true at all, there’s nothing wrong.’ Of course he was also shocked, and we thought: let’s deny it.”
entertainment">But not much later the news was everywhere. Emma: „Then there are a lot of people who react: ‘Oh, how nice, Henny! I also have a great-grandchild.’ There are hundreds of them, but there are also two other messages in between: ‘Nineteen, what a slut.’ (…) I was especially ashamed by those reactions. You can see from me that I am young and that I walk around with such a belly.”
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In May, Emma and Maurits became parents of their son Michael.
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entertainment">Maurits and Emma say that they had a whole plan in place to tell family members about the news at various stages, precisely because the pregnancy was not planned. But nothing came of that. In the end, Henny was very happy with the news and the birth of great-grandson Michael. “Ria and I were pleasantly surprised, because they are still young. We were 23, 24 ourselves, so we can’t say too much about it,” the former TV host told Show news† “They have been dating each other for a long time, it clicks enormously. They are two sweethearts, they were really born for each other.”
entertainment">In order to be ahead of the national entertainment press, and because he was as proud as a peacock, Henny announced the birth of his great-grandson himself on Twitter at the beginning of May. On Show news he added: “You have a child and he has a child and there is another child in it. It is very special, a godsend.”
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