Tooske Breugem

Antonia Grietje (Tooske) Ragas-Breugem (Zwolle, June 3 1974) is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in "06/05", a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey (VJ) at TMF Netherlands and presented the Dutch version of "Idols".

Life

Breugem was born in a Dutch Reformed family, and has two elder brothers: Jaap and Jan-Pieter. She married on June 3 2002 with the American Keith Davis, but the couple split up in December 2003. On June 25 2005 Breugem married the Dutch actor Bastiaan Ragas [ [http://www.radio.nl/2003/home/q.entertainment/2005/06/96666.html Report on the marriage by www.radio.nl] nl icon] , who was her co-star in the musical "3 Musketiers". On February 13, 2007 their first daughter was born [ [http://www.nu.nl/news/975875/61/Meisje_voor_Bastiaan_en_Tooske_%28video%29.html Report on the birth by Nu.nl] nl icon] , Helena Antonia Ragas, and they are expecting another child in May 2008 [ [http://www.nu.nl/news/1309556/61/Tooske_en_Bastiaan_verwachten_tweede_kindje.html Report on the pregnancy of Tooske by Nu.nl] nl icon] .

Tooske is also known in Germany, but although the Dutch know her as "Tooske Breugem", by her maiden name, the Germans know her generally as "Tooske Ragas", after her husband. Officially she uses "Tooske Ragas-Breugem".

Carrier

Since her first appearance on television in 1995 on the "Soundmixshow", Tooske's career showed a lot of aspects of the Dutch entertainment industry. First she was Miss Overijssel, the province she was coming from, in 1996 and became fourth in the Miss Netherlands election, and was singer at the group "Bogy Bogy" for two years. Then she became VJ at TMF Netherlands and MTV, which she was from 1998 until 2002. In 2002 she switched to the larger television channels, and became co-host of "Idols Netherlands" together with Reinout Oerlemans for two seasons at RTL4.

In 2005 Breugel switched from RTL to the Dutch public television broadcasting association AVRO where she presented the Junior Songfestival, the presentation of the "Televisierring" and "Help, ik word vader!" ("Help, I'm becoming a father") [ [http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article19483911.ece Report by the Telegraaf on Tooske presenting this new show] nl icon] . Together with Marco Shreyl she presented the third and fourth season of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar", the German Idols-version [ [http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article21877811.ece Report on Tooske's presentation by the Telegraaf] nl icon] [ [http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/45673251/Duitsers_willen_Tooske_opnieuw.html Also a report on the second time] nl icon] .

In 2006 Ragas-Breugem switched again to the commercial broadcaster SBS, where she presented in 2006 "Je wordt bedankt" ("Thanks!") [ [http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article49814711.ece Telegraaf reporting on Tooske's presentation of "Je wordt bedankt"] nl icon] and in 2007 together with Henkjan Smits. "Het beste idee van Nederland" ("The best idea of the Netherlands").

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