On August 20th 2007 Willemien made the first Dutch fansite about Aaron, a fan who learned about Aaron because of his role as Alex Ryan in McLeod’s Daughters. It was because she wanted to know everything of her favorite actor she searched the internet to look for a fansite. When she discovered that was none, she decided to start one herself within the community website clubs.nl
De site was a succes, but Willemien wanted to reach out to more fans because Clubs.nl was a rather onknown community website and not axcessable for international fans. She hoped to get the permission to start an official fansite.
after 5 years hosting the fansite on clubs.nl she manged to get Aaron’s personal approval to make the fansite an official fansite, plus the permission to extend te fansite with an english fansite as well.
But her dream went further then that. How amazing would it bei f you could host a fanmeeting.
In 2016 that dream became a reality when Aaron, but also his partner Zoe Naylor, flew from Australia to the netherlands. And met fans over 2 days were they talked about their time on Mcleod’s Daughters, gave autographs and taken pictures with the fans, this all-in the ambiance of Castle Loevesteijn.
In 2023 the unthinkable happend when we discovered that due to an error in the server, both fansite went down completely, all the information build so far were gone, especially because also Willemien’s computer with the complete back-up on information had crashed, what seemed that all information was really gone. But what then? Willemien decided to te rebuild a completely new fansite. When she let Aaron knew hwat happend he jumped in to make sure all the information was back online and worked on all the information tob e correct and complete.
And now we are in 2025, were we still are building this fansite, but the end is nearly there and we can launch that new official fansite in both Dutch and English.