Playback ’13] Former TV Asahi players Yuki Maeda and Yuta Tagase, who “cheered for each other in the audience every day,” live a “lovey-dovey life in Utsunomiya.

The article at the time introduced a comment from a TV Asahi official that Maeda was not actually studying abroad, but had quit TV Asahi in order to live together with Tagase. As far as this magazine could see, the two looked like a newlywed couple, but in response to this magazine’s interview, the team’s PR person replied, “We are not married yet, and we have not heard that there are any plans to get married. Also, Tagase himself told Sankei Sports, “We are not living together. She just comes and goes. （It isalso true that she was studying abroad. I’m concentrating on playing now.

It was reported that the two broke up around the beginning of 2002. The reason was said to be a difference in their views on marriage.

In the June 26, 2003 issue of this magazine, we found Maeda working at a flower shop in Tokyo and interviewed her directly. At that time, Maeda said the following.

I have been working here since last February because I wanted to study flowers. （When I studied abroad in England for four months (after quitting TV Asahi), I went to a flower school in London while attending language school, and I also went on garden tours in the provinces. Now I hope to make flowers my life’s work. I have no intention of going back to being an announcer.”

When I pointed out the ring on her left ring finger, she also revealed that she was planning to marry a man in July.

True to her word, Maeda married a college classmate in July 2003, and they later had two boys. In terms of work, Maeda became an independent floral artist, launching her own floral brand “gui” in 2006, and in 2009, she opened her own store, “NUR,” in Jingumae, Tokyo.

She continues to look forward to her past loves as a passing phase.