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André Leopold Adiel Vermeulen (born 25 October 1955 in Bruges) is a Belgian/Flemish journalist and television personality for VRT.
Since the 1991 Contest, Vermeulen following Luc Appermont has been the Flemish commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest. Due to unknown reasons in 1996, Vermeulen was unable to commentate on the 1996 Contest with Michel Follet & Johan Verstreken filling in, however returning to commentate on the 1997 Contest, since the 1998 Contest Vermeulen has co-commentated the event with other television presenters including Bart Peeters and Anja Daems. Vermeulen has also commentated for VRT viewers at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest at the 2005 Contest.
Currently he is a reporter on Het Journaal in which he reports on current affairs, show business and monarchy. He speaks Dutch, French, English, Spanish and Italian.