Tooske Ragas has presented major shows on SBS 6 for years, but now she is only used on Shownieuws. Does she find that painful? “Life is not fair and I take that into account.”
Things were not going well for Tooske Ragas for years: she was the host of Idols, even presented the German edition and then she presented one show after another for SBS 6. From The New Uri Geller to The Best Idea in the Netherlands: Tooske was invited for everything. And now, near the end of her TV career? Only Shownieuws is left.
Up and down
When she looks back on the past few years, Tooske acknowledges that her success has been quite variable. “The up and down of my career was difficult. At times I thought: okay, it can go either way. But it all also helps to think: what is it actually about?”, she says in the Weekend.
Is that some kind of protective layer? “I don’t know if it’s that or just the hard realization that the word fair doesn’t apply to life. It doesn’t work that way, life isn’t fair.”
Half full
Tooske now takes her career as it is. “We as people sometimes think: if you put this in, this will come out. But it doesn’t work that way at all and I realized that fairly early in my life. And my glass is usually half full, which makes a difference. I was born with a positive starting position.”
Is she annoyed that she is only allowed to do Show News? “Of course you have to make plans anyway, but not too many. Like everything else in life, of course. It’s about looking for your balance between: how many plans do I want to make and how much freedom do I want to keep? That’s always a bit of a search.”
‘It’s relative’
Isn’t Tooske afraid that she will soon be thrown out? She is currently a 51-year-old woman, which is very old in the eyes of John de Mol. “I’ve always found it fascinating: that enormous possibilities arose, then suddenly they didn’t, then suddenly they did, and then they didn’t for a while. Getting older certainly helps with a lot of things.”
“Also to think: it is all so relative, so do the things that you enjoy and don’t try to look for something bigger behind it. Like: I am important or something. It doesn’t matter. Just do what you like.”