Goedele Liekens

Goedele Liekens
Liekens in October 2011
Born	(1963-01-21) 21 January 1963 (age 54) Aarschot, Belgium
Alma mater	Free University of Brussels Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Country	Belgium
Spouse(s)	Chris Cockmartin (m. 1996; div. 2006)
Children	2 daughters
Website	Official website

Goedele Maria Gertrude Liekens (born 21 January 1963), is a Flemish psychologist and sexologist. She is a former Miss Belgium (1986) and currently also works as a television presenter, in the Netherlands as well as her native Belgium. Outside the Low Countries, she may be best known for presenting Sex in Class on Channel 4 in the UK, early August 2015. She and Steve Jones present the second series of Sex Box.

Liekens became famous by winning the Miss Belgium contest in May 1986. During the following Miss Universe contest in Panama Liekens refused to attend extracurricular events for guests that paid extra for those. She also refused to shake hands with then head of state Manuel Noriega for his "leading a wrong regime".

Liekens studied psychology and sexology, receiving a degree from the Free University of Brussels in 1987. She re-attended university in 1991, studying Family and Sexual Studies at the KU in Leuven, earning her degree in 2003. She worked for the sexuality and planned parenthood organisation Rutgers Nisso Group from 1992 to 1996.

Liekens appeared as a sexology expert in several programs of Flemish and Dutch television and did a radio show for a while. She got her first show to present in the late 1980s and has done about a dozen since. At first her programmes centred on sex and sex education, but from the mid 1990s onwards Liekens hosted other shows as well, like the Flemish version of Weakest Link. Liekens worked for a variety of stations in Belgium and the Netherlands, most notably the Vtm and RTL 4.