Former Czech TV and radio announcer Marie Tomsová (73) belongs to the most prominent personalities in the Czechoslovak television air of the 80s. Younger viewers will remember her especially as a reporter from the movie Sun, hay and a few faces. However, the sympathetic lady has survived a great tragedy in the past, which she talked about in .
In 1980, she and her husband Miloš were happy with their first-born son Lukáš. But the boy died when he was 5 months old from sudden infant death syndrome. She took the tragic loss of her son very hard and had suicidal thoughts.
“When we were returning by car from my parents, where it happened, back to Prague, I said to my husband: ‘Come on, let’s smash it into a tree or a wall somewhere.’ But he convinced me that we can’t because of our parents. It saved my life,” the announcer mentioned.
Not only work helped her overcome the dark period, but also the birth of two more sons – Miloš and Michael. She had to wait some time for their arrival, after the death of Lukáš she could not get pregnant for seven long years. “After that, it was also a mental block that I couldn’t get into a different state because I wasn’t focused on anything else. My life was narrowed down to just that. I couldn’t see the children, I couldn’t look in the pram… There was nothing else for me,” she explained.
She also had legions of fans in her heyday. Some were even very persistent and once she even received a marriage proposal. “He was a certain inmate of the psychiatric hospital in Dobřany. He wrote me letters almost every day. Not just me, all of us. Gradually, or even suddenly, you wanted to marry us all,” she admitted to and added that he once waited for her in front of the house.
“At half past one in the morning, I entered the drive-thru – then the houses were not locked – then into the yard. And there a guy jumped on me! I shouted. He got scared and yelled: ‘Maruska, what are you screaming, it’s me,’ so I screamed again. Fortunately, the janitor who lived on the ground floor ran out and he escaped. He got a deserter, found me in the Yellow Pages, and went to wait for me. He didn’t mean it badly,” she concluded.
Tomsová started in television as an announcer for Czechoslovak Television, where she worked from 1977. She became known and loved for her cultured expression, pleasant demeanor and consistent preparation. She worked on the screens until the 90s, while viewers knew her as the announcer of TV news, various program trailers and special shows.
After the regime change and the reorganization of Czechoslovak Television in 1989, she ended up working there. Later, she worked in the media, especially in radio and on presenter projects. Even after leaving television, she remained publicly active, engaged in various cultural and social activities and occasionally appears in the media. In the Czech Republic, he still remains a respected personality in the field of television broadcasting.
