Koen Wauters has his tattooed wedding ring lasered away: “The love is no longer there, so it can go”

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Koen Wauters (56) says goodbye to his tattooed wedding ring, he said in the radio program JOE le taxi. Four years ago, the Clouseau singer divorced Valerie De Booser and now it is time to remove the tattoo.

Koen Wauters was a guest on Saturday morning in the radio program JOE le taxi, a broadcast that is also filmed. It was immediately noticed: the ring finger of Wauters, who drives the taxi, is wrapped in a bandage. “I have now had a few sessions to get my tattooed ring off,” he admits honestly. Wauters got the tattoo in 2004, when he tied the knot with Valerie De Booser. Because he does not tolerate jewelry well, “But also because it was a nice demonstration of my commitment and love.”

The Wauters-De Boosere marriage ended four years ago. “Now the tattoo can be removed, right? That marriage is no longer there, that love is no longer there.” “But the children are still there, don’t they mind?” Van Elsen immediately asks. “They may have mixed feelings about that, that’s possible. But I’m not going to take that into account. My body, my decision,” he says firmly.

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Wauters in October last year, still clearly with a tattoo, embraced Laura Tesoro when leaving for France for the recording of ‘Love for Music’. — © Marc Gysens

Backpack that you carry with you

Wauters also looks back on the moments after the divorce. He was then repeatedly commented that he became ‘much cooler’ after the divorce than during the last months of his marriage to De Boosere. “I thought I was always friendly and positive. And I think that was true. But when there’s a shadow hanging above you and you’re carrying a backpack, you don’t realize that you’re taking it with you everywhere. I think that is very bad.”

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Tattoos of love

Wauters clearly has nothing against immortalizing love in tattoos. Just last week he obscured the dream of Anne Wijnen from Lommel. Thirty years ago he quickly scribbled his signature on her arm. “I didn’t wash my arm for a week after that,” she said in the program. Now he has signed that signature again, but this time as a tattoo. He did that live on the broadcast. Now Anne no longer has to worry about taking a shower, this signature will not come off so easily.

Koen Wauters tattooed a fan himself last week in The Dream Factory. — © Thomas Geuens