Tim Hofman (Vlaardingen, born 9 July 1988) is a Dutch television presenter, journalist, poet, and columnist.
In the week before Christmas, Hofman was a reporter at the Glass House, where he regularly covered short news during the Serious Request Update.
In 2013 Hofman was a reporter for the BNN program Spuiten en Slikken, for which he made shows like Tims Tuintje, a ten-part series on the policy of weed in the Netherlands, in which he had his own cannabis farm.
[7] 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.
Hofman was also a regular guest as an internet expert at NPO Radio 1's BNN Today and De Wereld Draait Door.
[13][14] In June Hofman pleaded in front of the Lower House for a more open debate about drug use and a less strict policy, he was able to do this because of a citizens' initiative.
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.
[18] In 2020 Tim Hofman's show Over Mijn Lijk (Over My Dead Body) won the prestigious Gouden Televizier-ring award.
[22][23] 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.
[25][26][27] A BOOS episode from August 2017 made national headlines when Hofman was physically assaulted by landlord Ton Hendriks and suffered a broken jaw.
[37] The 20 January 2022 BOOS episode on alleged sexual abuse on the popular show The Voice Of Holland was viewed over 5 million times in the first two hours it was posted on YouTube.