Colleagues in droves react to Mylenberg's death: 'Troels was unique'

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*Colleagues in droves react to Mylenberg's death:* 'Troels was unique'

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The beloved journalist and TV host's death has prompted reactions from both colleagues and political sources.

Troels Mylenberg had recently been terminally ill with cancer. Earlier this month, he published the book 'Skumring' (Twilight), in which he shared his thoughts on living with the disease and the fact that death was knocking at the door. (Photo: © Klaus Bo Christensen, Christensen Klaus Bo/Ritzau Scanpix) 39 min. ago

It is not hard to see that Troels Mylenberg was an utterly beloved person and colleague.

Tributes have poured in after his family confirmed the death of the former TV host and journalist on Instagram earlier today. ( https://www.instagram.com/p/DfKF7m7MzSu/ )

TV 2 colleague Natasja Crone, who had known Troels Mylenberg since their high school days, writes in a post on the same social media platform that "the loss will be enormous and hard to comprehend."

- My friend, my witness to life and my partner in all sorts of contexts is no longer here, writes the TV 2 host. ( https://www.instagram.com/natasjacrone/?hl=da )

- Troels could do it all. A little more and much more. All of it in a major key right to the very end, writes Crone, who also tells that he kept up going to football matches and playing golf until three weeks before his death.

TV host Natasja Crone tells in an Instagram post that she had known Troels Mylenberg since 1985. Archive photo. (Photo: © Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen, Ritzau Scanpix)

Other colleagues from the broadcaster also remember Mylenberg.

- You were a role model, an inspiration, and an incredibly kind and good colleague, writes TV 2 News host and cycling commentator Dennis Ritter in a post on the same social media platform. ( https://www.instagram.com/p/DfKLiIIMCHd/ )

Mylenberg's former workplace TV 2 brings a longer tribute.

- Troels Mylenberg was unique. As a person and as a journalist. But above all as the optimistic, engaged, decent human being that we will miss beyond words, writes TV 2's content director ( https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2026-10-31-en-fantastisk-kollega-og-ven-er-doed ) , Ulla Pors, in a tribute published by the same broadcaster.

Troels Mylenberg was 56 years old. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2025, and at the beginning of the year he received the news that his illness was incurable.

Troels Mylenberg wrote the book 'Mark & Vanopslagh' in 2024 about the current Minister for Children, the Elderly and Housing (SF) Jacob Mark and Liberal Alliance's leader Alex Vanopslagh. Archive photo. (Photo: © Rune Øe, Ritzau Scanpix) Read also: TV host and journalist Troels Mylenberg is dead ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/tv-vaert-og-journalist-troels-mylenberg-er-doed )

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'A unique beacon'

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For Ekstra Bladet, Troels Mylenberg's close friend of many years, Jeppe Nybroe, has also written a tribute.

- Uncle Troels was and is a unique beacon of the best in this world - as a father, as a husband, as a son, as a brother, as a journalist, as a godfather and uncle to my son Storm, and as my beloved friend for over 30 years, writes Nybroe. ( https://ekstrabladet.dk/underholdning/article11338897.ece )

Also Minister for Children, the Elderly and Housing (SF), Jacob Mark, who might more accurately be described as a source than a colleague, reacts.

- Even though I was far from one of Troels' close friends, I had the great joy of spending many hours with Troels after he reached out to write a book about Alex Vanopslagh and me, writes Mark about the book 'Mark & Vanopslagh', which was published in 2024.

- I know full well that death is not fair. But in this case, I think it is particularly unfair, because I always got the feeling that Troels loved living, writes the minister.

Mark is not the only minister who remembers the TV host and journalist. Conservative leader Mona Juul and Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior Pia Olsen Dyhr (SF) have also spoken about the death.

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Biography: Troels Mylenberg

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Troels Mylenberg was a journalist, author, and news host at TV 2

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He joined TV 2 in 2018 as a host on the news channel News

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In the years before that, he was a leading figure at Jysk Fynske Medier as editor-in-chief of Fyns Stiftstidende, director, and finally development director

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Former head of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Southern Denmark

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Grew up in Hellerup, but until his death lived on South Funen

Source: TV 2

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Met at Amagertorv

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Troels Mylenberg was head of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Southern Denmark - and there he made an impression on students over the years.

TV host Mette Cornelius calls her former lecturer "the warmest and most inspiring person I have ever been taught by," writes Ekstra Bladet. ( https://ekstrabladet.dk/underholdning/article11338897.ece )

- When I graduated as a journalist, we occasionally met for a chat at a café at Amagertorv. Conversations about the craft of journalism and about life. And Troels was the best in the world at instilling faith and confidence in my abilities as a journalist when I was so green and insecure about myself, writes Mette Cornelius.

Troels Mylenberg is survived by his wife, Lis Mylenberg, and four children. Shortly before his death, he worked as a news host at TV 2, where he previously served as political editor.

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