De Pfaffs was a

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revolving around the family of former

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Jean-Marie Pfaff Jean-Marie Pfaff (born 4 December 1953) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and spent most of his professional career with Beveren and Bayern Munich. Pfaff was capped 64 times playing for Belgium, and parti ...

. It was broadcast from 2002 until 2011 on Flemish TV channel VTM and later exported to the Netherlands too, where the first season was shown by the

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and the rest by

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and

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. The show starred Jean-Marie, his wife Carmen and her father Edilberth, nicknamed "Bompa" (who died in 2007), alongside Jean-Marie's daughters Debby, Kelly and Lyndsey and their respective husbands and children.

Lyndsey Pfaff

Lyndsey Linda Marc Pfaff (born 4 October 1978 in Beveren-Waas) is a Belgian TV-personality. She is the youngest daughter of former

and Carmen Seth. Her older sisters are Debby and

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. She went to the hotel school ''VTI Spijker'' and got her degree in hotel management. After college she worked in the tourism industry. A while later she worked for a production company called ''TV Company''. Together with her sister Kelly, she hosted a 'lifestyle' show. She also worked as an editor for the Belgian magazine ''Flair''. The Pfaff-family have their own reality show ''De Pfaffs'' on TV. In 2004, Lyndsey married Dave Volders and they have two children, Bruce (born 20 July 2006) and Fay (born 10 September 2007). Shortly after her marriage, in 2005, she was seen in an episode of the Belgian version of ''

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''.

Debby Pfaff

Debby Edilbert Gerdina Pfaff (born 30 May 1975 in Beveren-Waas) is a Belgian TV-personality. She is the oldest daughter of former

and Carmen Seth. She has two younger sisters, called

and

Lyndsey Lindsay () is both an English and Scottish surname and a given name. The given name comes from the Scottish surname and clan name, which comes from the toponym Lindsey, which in turn comes from the Old English toponym ''Lindesege'' ("Island of L ...

. The Pfaff-family have a reality show, ''De Pfaffs''. Debby has a relationship with Nicolas Liébaert and they have two sons, Keano (born 4 November 2004) and Liam (born 27 May 2006).

In other media

Between 2003 and 2004 two comic book albums were produced around the TV series. The stories were written by Ronald Grossey and drawn by Charel Cambré.

References

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* * Flemish television shows Belgian reality television series 2002 Belgian television series debuts 2011 Belgian television series endings Television shows adapted into comics VTM (TV channel) original programming Television shows set in Belgium {{europe-tv-bio-stub