Hummie van der Tonnekreek

Alida Helena "Hummie" van der Tonnekreek (16 April 1945 – 19 January 2022) was a Dutch journalist and editor.

Van der Tonnekreek started working as an editor at Margriet, but later she made career as a reporter at the gossip magazine . She then worked for a short time at  and finally was editor-in-chief at  and AvantGarde, where she left after a conflict in 1998. Van der Tonnekreek became known to the public when she became editor-in-chief of the television series Big Brother in 1999. She was the all editions editor-in-chief untill Big Brother 6 in 2006. She was also editor-in-chief of the reality series ,  and Hotel Big Brother. In 2011, she was involved as a consultant on the Big Brother spin-off Secret Story.

Van der Tonnekreek had lung cancer She died in Hillegom on 19 January 2022, at the age of 76.

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Category:Dutch journalists
Category:Editors
Category:1945 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:Writers from Amsterdam