1. Lucille Martine Werner was born on 12 October 1967 and is a Dutch television presenter and politician.
36 Facts About Lucille Werner
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Lucille Werner presented Get the Picture between 2002 and 2004 before becoming the host of Lingo.
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Lucille Werner was elected member of parliament in the 2021 general election as a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal.
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Lucille Werner was born in 1967 in the North Brabant city of Eindhoven to Pieter Werner, an analyst.
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Lucille Werner suffered from a lack of oxygen during her birth, leaving her with cerebral palsy resulting in a limp.
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Lucille Werner grew up with two sisters and one brother.
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Lucille Werner attended the high school Sint-Joriscollege at level between 1980 and 1985.
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Lucille Werner subsequently studied management and communication at level at Schoevers in Groningen.
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Lucille Werner's father committed suicide when Werner was 21 years old.
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Lucille Werner served as a correspondent and interviewed celebrities including David Bowie and Tina Turner.
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Lucille Werner made her debut as a television host in September 1997, when the news show RTL Actueel premiered.
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Lucille Werner co-presented the last two of those shows with Michael Pilarczyk.
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Lucille Werner signed a three-year contract with public broadcasting association AVRO in 2001.
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Lucille Werner hosted another five-episode animal show called De dierentolk, in which a medium communicated with animals, two years later.
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Lucille Werner began hosting the TROS word game show Lingo on 1 September 2005.
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Besides, Lucille Werner was one of two Dutch commentators of both editions of the Eurovision Dance Contest.
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Lucille Werner presented the selection of the Dutch candidate in 2007 as well.
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Lucille Werner's first show on its channel SBS6 was Show XL, a program about entertainment news in the late afternoon on Sundays.
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Lucille Werner hosted Mijn laatste keer in 2016 about terminally ill people enjoying their last moments.
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Lucille Werner became one of the hosts of De Ochtend Show to go, a new online news program by a number of DPG Media newspapers, in December 2018.
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However, Lucille Werner left the show after one month because she had signed a two-year contract with broadcaster KRO-NCRV.
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Lucille Werner wrote a book, which was published in May 2005, about her life as a disabled person called Het leven loopt op rolletjes.
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Lucille Werner handed the first example to Prime Minister Balkenende.
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Besides, Lucille Werner was initiator of Misverkiezing, a pageant for people with a disability.
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When Lucille Werner had signed a contract with SBS6, her pageant Misverkiezing was held once more in 2017.
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Lucille Werner presented it together with Kees Tol, while the winner was crowned by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
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In 2019, Lucille Werner co-hosted a live show of KRO-NCRV in which an unofficial Minister of Disabled Affairs was chosen.
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Lucille Werner launched CAP100, a website showing job seekers with a disability to potential employers, in November 2010.
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Lucille Werner is a knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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Lucille Werner ran for member of parliament in the March 2021 general election.
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Lucille Werner was elected as the tenth candidate on the CDA's party list and received 7,133 preference votes.
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Lucille Werner was installed on 31 March and became her party's spokesperson for disability policy, long-term health care, caregiving, the Social Support Act 2015, volunteering, media, culture, emancipation, and civilian service.
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Lucille Werner is on the Committees for Art, for Education, Culture and Science, for Health, Welfare and Sport, and for Petitions.
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Lucille Werner moved to Amsterdam in 2004 after her eight-year relationship had ended.
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Lucille Werner moved from Nederhorst den Berg to Voorburg during her membership of the House of Representatives.
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Lucille Werner has been singer in a number of bands playing rock and South American music.