Robert ten Brink

Robert ten Brink (Amsterdam, 20 October 1955) is a Dutch presenter and actor.

He won the Golden "TeleVizier-Ring" in 1993 for "All you need is love" reality-TV.

In 1997, he was chosen as Holland's most popular personality.His wife is Roos Cialona (they married in 1981), he has 5 children with her: Nina, Emma, Charlotte, Isabel and Suzanne.

Career

In 1979 he began as a Radio-DJ.

In 1981 he began his TV-career with the TV-Quiz "Cijfers en Letters" (Numbers and Letters).He also began hostinf TV-Shows like "Superfan" and "Wereldwijs", but he especially became famous with "Jeugdjournaal" from the NOS.In 1989 he began hosting the original version of Lingo.

In 1992 he went to Veronica, where he hosted the very successful "All You Need is Love", which usually had more than 4 million viewers.

In 1998 he went to SBS 6, where he continued to host "All You Need is Love".In 1999 he began hosting the very popular TV-Quiz Lotto Weekend Miljonairs.He was also the host of "Big Diet", where heavy people try to lose weight.

When to Lotto, the main sponsor of "Weekend Miljonairs", decided to get the program to RTL 4, he almost lost his program.Because SBS 6 had also stopped with "All You Need is Love" and did'nt have another program for him to host, he signed a 3-year contract with RTL, where he continued to host Lotto Weekend Miljonairs.

In 2008 the Lotto stopped sponsoring "Weekend Miljonairs" which resulted in the show stopping.Because of this, Ten Brink will start hosting the Dutch version of The Moment of Truth in the fall of 2008.

According to the magazine Quote, he is the 2nd highest payed Dutch TV-Host.According to the magazine, he makes about €850.000 a year.

List of programmes

He is/was the presenter of these programmes:

KRO (1979 - 1982)
* "De Noenshow", radioprogramme
* "Cijfers en Letters"

NOS (1983 - 1989)
* "Jeugdjournaal"

VARA (1986 - 1992)
* "De Steen en Been Show", radioprogramme
* "Superfan"
* "Wereldwijs"
* "Lingo" (Dutch version)

Veronica (1992 - 1998)
* "All You Need is Love"
* "Sportfreaks"
* "De Travestie Show"
* "Make My Day"

SBS6 (1998 - 2006)
* "All You Need is Love"
* "Lotto Weekend Miljonairs"
* "Achmea Kennisquiz"
* "Loveboat Amorina"
* "Big Diet"
* "Super Robert"
* "Sterrenbeurs"
* "Hoe gaat het met?"

RTL (2006 - ...)
* "Lotto Weekend Miljonairs"
* "Klasgenoten"
* "De nationale Carrierecheck"
* "Koffietijd!"
* "All You Need is Love"
* "NL Vertrekt"
* "The Moment of Truth"

External links

* [http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/template_subnav.jsp?navname=biografieen_b&category=collectie_informatie&artid=20451 Robert ten Brink at Beeld en Geluid] nl
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