Bridget Maasland
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Netherlands
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VJ and television presenter
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and producer
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.
She worked as a model
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and appeared on the catwalk in fashion
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shows for children. Her debut on television was a commercial
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for fruit
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as a healthy alternative to candy.
Later, Maasland became a professional
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model, working in Barcelona
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. She returned in 1993 to the Netherlands
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to become a showdancer and assistant in the Veronica
Veronica (television channel)
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show, Man O Woman.
She started working for TMF
TMF Nederland
TMF was a 24-hour music channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks in the Netherlands. The channel ceased operating on September 1, 2011. The channels operations were based in Amsterdam. The channel was previously known as TMF6 and TMF9 respectively.- History :TMF was launched on May...
where she gained popularity as a VJ and presenter
Presenter
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. Five years later, she left the music station as one of the last presenters of the first wave to start working for the Dutch National TV station BNN. BNN is especially targeted at a young audience, and her sexy profile fitted the bill perfectly. She presented shows like Lijst 0 (politics
Politics
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with a sexy twist, together with Katja Schuurman
Katja Schuurman
Katja Römer-Schuurman is a Dutch actress, singer, television personality and occasional VJ.-Youth:Katja grew up in Bunnik as the eldest daughter of a Dutch father and a Chinese-Surinamese mother; she has one younger sister, Birgit, who is an actress as well.-The 1990s:Schuurman made her acting...
), Een Beetje Bridget, BNN At Work, Neuken doe ik veel! (explicit sex education
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), The national IQ test, The Bridget Triangle, BNN presenteert AVRO's Sterrenslag and Katja vs. Bridget.
For a more universal audience, she interviewed the teams in both series of the Dutch version of Robot Wars
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(the role Phillipa Forrester and, when she was off, Julia Reed
Julia Reed
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and Jayne Middlemiss
Jayne Middlemiss
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, had in the main (UK) version of the Robot Combat
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gameshow). In the first series a team named Blue, who dyed their skin blue prior to the event, communicated only by handing notes to her, or with their mouthpiece.
After a couple of years with BNN, she decided in 2005 to move over to the newly formed commercial station, Talpa of John de Mol, where she gained the possibility to produce
Television producer
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television shows herself. However, her first job was to present Big Brother 5 together with Ruud de Wild
Ruud de Wild
Rudolf Alexander de Wild is a Dutch radio host. He is also a former DJ, VJ and was one of the faces of the now-defunct television network Talpa....
. A year later she presented Big Brother 6 on her own.
In May 2006, she appeared in the Dutch edition of Playboy
Playboy
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, with the proceeds going to the Dutchpuppy charity.
Other shows have included her own production, Je leven in de steigers (based on Extreme Home Makeover), the news
News
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program NSE, Woef! (own production about dog training
Dog training
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), the talk show
Talk show
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Late Night met Maasland & Geel and Hoe word ik een Gooische Vrouw? (a satirical take on how to become and behave ladylike).
In the end of 2007 Bridget moved over to the commercial station RTL Nederland because Talpa officially ceased to exist. On August 27 Bridget's new show "Hoe Word Ik Een New Yorkse Vrouw?" started. It has the same concept as "Hoe Word Ik Een Gooische Vrouw?"