He made his television debut on Sonja Barend's talk show as a member of De tafel van 7 (English: "The table of 7").

In 1991 the AVRO hired Tan as editor for the television program Forza TV, which he quickly after started presenting together with Jessica Broekhuis.

On 12 July 2007 it was announced that Tan would be transferred to RTL Nederland, where he presented Sunday-night premier league soccer.

[2] From 2008 until the summer of 2012, Tan presented De Wedstrijden from the pay TV channel Eredivisie Live.

[3] In 2009, he provided the Dutch voice of Buck the Weasel in the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

[4] Tan appeared regularly on radio channel 538 when the usual DJ Edwin Evers was on vacation.

Because of falling viewership ratings he was replaced by Twan Huys, who couldn't save the show from its eventual cancellation on March 4, 2019.

Tan's mother was the Surinamese-Dutch social worker and women's rights activist Hillegonda Justine "Hilly" Axwijk (nl; 1934–2004), who emigrated to the Netherlands with her children in 1967.