The presenter defeated Wilfred Genee and Hélène Hendriks in this category, who were also nominated. Hendriks received the award in 2023.
Martijn Krabbé in tears after Televizier-Ring nomination: ‘You have no idea what this means to me’
Krabbé was best known as the presenter of the program The Voice.The 57-year-old RTL celebrity announced at the beginning of this year that he has metastatic lung cancer and is no longer getting better.
Krabbé was featured in the program last TV season Buy without looking. The recordings took place before he announced that he had lung cancer. In the new season of The Voice Krabbé can be heard as a voice-over..
‘My farewell to television has a golden edge’
When Krabbé walked onto the stage, the first bars of the piece sounded Also Sprach Zarathustra. The presenter had expressed the wish to perform this music, just like Elvis Presley.
The presenter thanked everyone present for the standing ovation at the start of the Gala: “The show was not even ten minutes old and I felt warm. My farewell to television has a golden edge.”
Words of thanks for colleagues and family
Krabbé thanked his RTL colleagues “who ensured that I had the feeling that I belonged over the past year and a half. That is very valuable after that terrible diagnosis.”
He also thanked his parents and brother and Wendy van Dijk, “my dear colleague whom I love very much. She is the person who always takes care of my matters of the heartand there are many in my family.”
Finally, Krabbé praised his four children as “the bravest children alive” and invited his wife on stage. He thanked her for the fact that “you have to love each other in good times and bad.” Then he kissed her and held up the trophy.