Background
Breugem was born in a Dutch Reformed family, and has two elder brothers: Jaap and January-Pieter.
Breugem was born in a Dutch Reformed family, and has two elder brothers: Jaap and January-Pieter.
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 two seasons of the Dutch and German version of Idols. On 25 June 2005 Breugem married the Dutch actor Bastiaan Ragas, who was her co-star in the musical 3 Musketiers.
Their second daughter, Feline Hanneke Grietje Ragas was born on 28 May 2008.
The third daughter Catharina Maria (Catoo Ragas) was born on 7 April 2010. Officially she uses Tooske Ragas-Breugem.
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 Mission Overijssel, the province she hailed from, in 1996 and became fourth in the Mission Netherlands election, and was singer in the group Bogy Bogy for two years.
Then she became VJ at TMF Netherlands and Music Television, 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). Together with Marco Schreyl she presented the third and fourth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idols-version.
In 2006 Ragas-Breugem switched again and this time to the commercial broadcaster Business School, where she presented in 2006 Je wordt bedankt (Thanks!) and in 2007 together with Henkjan Smits.
Het beste idee van Nederland (The best idea from the Netherlands).