Tim Hofman facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Tim Hofman
Tim Hofman in 2018
Born	9 July 1988 (1988-07-09) (age 36) Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Nationality	Netherlands
Years active	2011–Present
Known for	BNN Today Spuiten en Slikken #BOOS
Television	BNN Today Spuiten en Slikken #BOOS

Tim Hofman (Vlaardingen, born 9 July 1988) is a Dutch television presenter, journalist, poet, and columnist. Hofman often worked under the pseudonym debroervanroos. He is among other things known as the presenter of the online program #BOOS, with which he has won many awards.

Career

After quitting three studies – Language & Cultural studies (Utrecht University), Dutch Language (Leiden University) and Communication Sciences (Amsterdam) – Hofman was admitted to the BNN-VARA Academy on 1 January 2011. Upon graduating from BNN Academy, he started at 101 TV as a reporter for TimTV and 101 Timeline.

After working for 101 TV, Hofman worked at the BNN and VARA program 24/7 as a reporter, panel member and internet expert from October 2011 to May 2012. Then in the summer of 2012 he made the program FC Gay for BNN. In the week before Christmas, Hofman was a reporter at the Glass House, where he regularly covered short news during the Serious Request Update.

..... Hofman also started his writing career with an article in the magazine Foxy, in which he had a Belgian lady undress in a laundry room. On 5 February, Hofman appeared in the BNN-KRO program Zeg dag tegen pesten. Hofman was also a regular guest as an internet expert at NPO Radio 1's BNN Today and De Wereld Draait Door.

In 2014 Hofman became presenter of the daily program De Social Club, Je Zal het maar Hebben, the studio show of Spuiten en Slikken, Spuiten en Slikken op Reis and Mijn 5000 Vrienden. He also won the sixteenth season of the game show Wie is de Mol?

Together with presenter Jan Versteegh he was on the cover of L'HOMO. The presenters tried to bring homosexuality up for discussion. For this, they were nominated for the OUTtv Media Award 2016, an award that is awarded every year to a person who managed to positively promote homosexuality. For Spuiten en Slikken, Hofman traveled to the Philippines to document the drug war in the country. .....

De Stembus (the voting bus), is an initiative that originated on Twitter, that urged young people to vote for the House of Representatives in 2017. Hofman, BNN chairman Zakaria Taouss and some other journalists were contributing to the initiative. One of the ideas put forward was to drive a van across the Netherlands and visit schools to draw attention to voting there. There was also a one-off route chosen by train throughout the Netherlands. Party leaders Mark Rutte, Alexander Pechtold, Marianne Thieme and Gert-Jan Segers went along with Hofman and the voting bus towards the young people on the trains. In addition to the bus and train, they wanted young people to be free on election day to vote and celebrate their democracy and the right to vote. The mission of Hofman and De Stembus was to get 850,000 young people who were allowed to vote for the first time that year to vote.

In 2020 Tim Hofman's show Over Mijn Lijk (Over My Dead Body) won the prestigious Gouden Televizier-ring award. The show follows terminally ill people as they navigate through life. He also won the award for best presenter and online show for #BOOS.

In 2022 and 2024 Tim Hofman won the Televizier-star awards for best presenter.

#BOOS

Since June 2016, Hofman has been presenter of the online program called #BOOS, which can be seen on the YouTube channel with the same name, NPO and BNNVARA's online channels. In the program Hofman helps people solve their problems. As the episodes followed, special spin-offs were added to the program, including #BOOS POLERTIEK, in which Hofman wanted to support the young people in choosing their own political preferences. There were also spin-offs in 2017 and 2018 in which Hofman came to the aid of other target groups; in #BOOS BELGIOOS he only helped Belgian participants and in #BOOS BEJAARDENSOOS he only helped older participants.