Controversial Dutch TV and radio presenter Robert Jensen died of a heart attack on Monday at the age of 52.

Jensen’s team said on his website the presenter did not feel well over the weekend and checked into a hospital where he died on Monday night.

Jensen started out in regional radio and quickly stepped up to national fame via pirate radio station Radio Veronica. In 2002, he started his own talk show JENSEN! on now defunct commercial tv station Yorin, in which he interviewed celebrities such as Shakira and Jamie Oliver.

Jensen was no stranger to controversy, openly rowing with various Dutch celebrities, and developing a reputation for using crude language.

His presence on television had dwindled in the last few years but he was still active on social media and had his own podcast.

Jensen was also a voluble critic of the government’s coronavirus policy, saying Covid was “no more serious than a bout of flu”.