Mariska Hulscher

After getting her VWO diploma, Hulscher studied law at the Leiden 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 by Fons van Westerloo, then director of programming for RTL 5, one of the Dutch commercial channels.

[2][4] Media coverage afterward was scathing, since Hulscher refused to comment on the divorce though before the marriage she courted media attention, according to Trouw,[5] with the fashion magazine Jacky getting an exclusive on the wedding photos, and gossip magazine Story paying for the honeymoon (to Bali) 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 on RTL Boulevard and other shows.