Tooske Ragas

Breugem was born in Zwolle into a Dutch Reformed family, and has two elder brothers, Jaap and Jan-Pieter. Since her first appearance on television in 1995 on the Soundmixshow, Tooske's career showed a lot of aspects of the Dutch entertainment industry. She was Miss Overijssel, the province she hailed from, in 1996, placed fourth in the Miss Netherlands competition, and was singer in the group Bogy Bogy for two years. Later, 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, Breugem 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"). Together with Marco Schreyl she presented the third and fourth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idols version. In 2006, she switched again, and this time to the commercial broadcaster SBS, where she presented Je wordt bedankt ("Thanks!") in 2006 and Het Beste Idee van Nederland ("The best idea from the Netherlands") in 2007. 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. Rages appeared in a 2015 episode of the game show De Jongens tegen de Meisjes. She appears in the 2022 film Het Feest van Tante Rita. In 2024, she appeared in the 24th season of Wie is de Mol?.