Harald Johnstein Rønneberg (born 11 August 1973) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 television personality.

He was born in Halden

Halden

is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...

, and is an economist by education. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in the early 2000s before switching to TV 2

TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

 in 2002. Together with Thomas Numme

Thomas Numme

Thomas Numme is a Norwegian television personality.He was born in Sandefjord as a son of Yngvar Numme, and took media education at Volda University College. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in P3 radio and with juvenile shows before switching to TV 2 in 2003...

 he hosted the first season of Idol

Idol (Norway)

Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show describes itself as a "Search For A SuperStar". The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 24-50 through several...

in 2003, and then the Friday night show Senkveld. The duo has also hosted the Spellemannprisen

Spellemannprisen

Spellemannprisen is an award presented to Norwegian musicians for their contributions.-Operation:The award was established on the initiative of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide...

award show.

For his work in Senkveld, Rønneberg received Gullruten

Gullruten

Gullruten is an annual award for the Norwegian TV business, founded in 1998 by Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, NRK, TV2, TV3 and TVNorge...

 awards in 2004 and 2006. In both 2006 and 2007 Rønneberg and Numme were awarded the Se og Hør readers' TV personality of the year award.