He began hosting TV shows like Superfan and Wereldwijs, but he especially became famous with Jeugdjournaal from the NOS.

In 1992 he went to Veronica, where he hosted the very successful All You Need is Love, which usually had more than 4 million viewers, which at the time was almost a third of the entire population.

Because of this, Ten Brink hosted the Dutch version of The Moment of Truth in the fall of 2008.

He began hosting the entertainment programme Laat Ze Maar Lachen on RTL4, in April 2009.

In 2021, he appeared as Sinterklaas in the film De Grote Sinterklaasfilm: Trammelant in Spanje.