Rugby athlete and South African transfer pricing manager Wilco Froneman currently resides in New York City. Currently, he’s a member of the New York Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club. In September of 2018, he garnered media attention by attending the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, with hairstylist, podcaster, and television personality Jonathan Van Ness. His family and early existence are not well documented. He spent a significant portion of his existence in Ireland before relocating to the United States. In January of 2018, he sustained a back injury that was so severe he feared he would never be able to play again. Nonetheless, he eventually returned to the rugby field. Since his appearance with Van Ness at the Emmy Awards, Froneman has quickly become a social media celebrity. He has accumulated over thirty thousand Instagram followers. Additionally, he is active on Facebook and Twitter.
A profession of Wilco
Wilco Froneman began his profession in February 2009 as a tax risk auditor at Nedbank in Johannesburg. Before moving to Cape Town and joining Ernest & Young in November 2010 as a transfer pricing assistant manager, he worked there for one year and ten months. Froneman held this position for the next three years. In March 2014, he was appointed as the transfer pricing manager by BDO South Africa. He would work for this company for approximately one and a half years.
Froneman relocated to Dublin, Ireland, in late 2015 to serve as the transfer pricing manager for Deloitte Ireland. He held the position for nearly two years. He was transferred to the New York office of Deloitte in July 2017, where he currently works. During his time in Dublin, he used to compete for the Leinster Metro League Division 10’s Emerald Warriors. They are also members of the International Gay Rugby Board and Association. Green, white, and blue are the club’s colors; it was founded in 2003.
Their crest depicts a traditional Celtic shield with several rugby discs forming a floral design in the center. Froneman spent two years with the Warriors and was a member of the team that won the Union Cup Madrid 2017 bronze medal. Froneman was one of two athletes to receive the Player of the Season award for the Emerald Warriors that season.
After relocating to New York City in 2017, he joined the Division III men’s Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club of the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union. Their main field is located on Manhattan’s Randalls Island.
Personal Facts about Wilco
Wilco Froneman was born in South Africa in 1985 or 1986. Between 2005 and 2014, he studied at the University of Johannesburg, earning a bachelor’s degree in Tax Law / Taxation in 2008 and a master’s degree in South African and International Taxation in 2014.
Wilco Froneman has traveled extensively. In addition to Ireland and the United States, he has also visited Greece, Switzerland, Venice, Amsterdam, and Thailand. His Boston Terrier, Leja, travels with him on the majority of his trips. She has an Instagram account of her own.
His alias as a drag performer is Wilma Fey. Froneman donned his first Fey costume for the annual Bingham Cup 2018 Gotham Knights fundraiser. He posted an Instagram photo of himself as Fey with the caption, “completely out of his comfort zone.”
It is believed that Froneman is dating Jonathan Van Ness, the creator and star of the parody web series ‘Gay of Thrones (2013-2017). In 2018, he became the hygiene expert on the Netflix original series ‘Queer Eye’. In 2018, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for ‘Gay of Thrones’ but lost to the producers of ‘Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Van Ness was accompanied to the 2018 Emmy Awards by Froneman. Subsequently, they both uploaded pictures of themselves with each other on their respective Instagram accounts. Froneman captioned his photo “Supporting my bae… #Emmys,” while Van Ness wrote, “Love him.” This has prompted rumors of a potential relationship between the two.
Estimated Net Worth
Wilco is one of South Africa’s wealthiest Instagram stars. Wilco Froneman has a net worth of $5 million, per our research, Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider.