Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart

Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart (née Meis; born 13 April 1978), of Indo (Eurasian) descent from her father's side,is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart.
Meis and her husband moved to Germany when he left Ajax to play for Bundesliga football club Hamburger SV. After her husband's 2008 transfer to Real Madrid, the van der Vaarts moved to Spain. Since 2008, she has been a judge on Das Supertalent, the German version of Simon Cowell's Got Talent series. She is currently taking part in the third season of the German equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, called Let's Dance. On 17 April 2010, van der Vaart replaced the usual Deutschland sucht den Superstar judge Nina Eichinger for the final of the 7th season, after the latter was stuck in Los Angeles following flight restrictions as a result of the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull. In March 2011 van der Vaart is going to host the show Let's Dance together with Daniel Hartwich.
Along with famous entertainers such as Johannes Heesters and Rudi Carell, van der Vaart is one of the most successful Dutch personalities active in Germany.