Frédérique Huydts

We watched the final episode of the celebrity version of The Mole on TV tonight. One of the candidates, the actrice and walking sunshine Frédérique Huydts (38) passed away beginning of April this year because her cancer had gone into remission. This has shocked the entire country terribly since she was such a radiant person, full of life, so kind and lovely, with those sparkly eyes. When you saw her you just had to smile. She was a great candidate and tonight we saw that she had won this series of The Mole. She was the ultimate winner.

The show had been taped a while back but the final Episode is usually shot during the time that the last couple of episodes air on TV. This time however, when the production heard that Frédérique had gotten really sick again in just a matter of days and been hospitalized, they shot the final episode right away eventhough Frédérique couldn't even be there anymore, but just to shoot it before she died because of the effect it would have on the other candidates (many of them were close). Well, Frédérique died the very next day. She had been sick 2 years ago had gone through Chemo and eventually had received a clean bill of health. She had fought so hard and in The Mole she had shown several times how much of a fighter she really was. One assignment on the show was to bike up a mountain at an altitude of 4000 metres, where 3 other candidates had given up because it was too hard, she kept going and she made it to the finish.

It was such great pleasure to see her on the show as well as remembering her previous work and it was sad to see the episodes after her death because she had been our favourite candidate from the beginning on. Tonight, as I'm sure most people who watched the final did, we cried our hearts out when the final credits rolled and you could hear her say some last words which had been recorded shortly before she passed away. It's just so horrible how someone who had fought so incredibly hard for her life lost it way too soon.

So this is to you Frédérique!

Frédérique Huydts
19 Augustus 1967 - 3 April 2006