Dominatrix in real life/lawyer on Binnelanders.
BDSM star and former 7de Laan actress Yvonne van den Bergh rests her whip to return to TV this week when she debuts on kykNET soapie Binnelanders.
Yvonne arrives on the scene this Wednesday (29 April) in the guest role of a sassy lawyer named Maggie Kruger in a storyline involving the miners.
As you may know, Yvonne was at the centre of a kinky controversy last year when she came out as a dominatrix by
posting about it on Facebook. She revealed that it's a passion of hers that she'd been practising for some time and came out because the press were all over her about it. She mentions Rapport in her Facebook post but the rest of the press were circling too because of a cyber bully who stalked her.
The bully went on a crazed e-mail rampage sending messages and pictures to various publications saying that Yvonne was a professional dominatrix called Mistress Baton and that he'd made appointments with her - all intended to "expose" her without her knowledge.
TVSA received them too - here's an example:
YVONNE VAN DEN BERGH
IS A WHIP MISTRESS WHO CHARGES MONEY FOR WHIPPING MEN AND WOMEN "INTO SHAPE"
https://fetlife.com/users/3420618
He blitzed the press with these and when Yvonne became aware of them she came out and told the world about her love of BDSM.
Which I applaud her for - BIGTIME. The way she handled things beat down the bully in a most superb way and she freed herself to be who she is openly. She made no apologies for anything and really stood up to society's judgements and prejudices.
Her Facebook post explained that her husband and family knew about her lifestyle and she told her Facebook followers they could ask her anything they wanted to about it.
She's since gone on to open
Die Strafkamer - a Facebook page where she mixes her lifestyle and artistic life so if you're keen on a spanking you know where to go if you'd like to be whipped by a TV star.
She'll be on Binnelanders for about three weeks.