Yiolanda Koppel
Encyclopedia
Yiolanda "Yolly" Koppel is a television presenter with many years experience presenting for Carlton Television
, CITV
and Nickelodeon, with her friend Mounya Khamlichi. She has recently hosted a prime time entertainment show Dare U as well as filming Off The Hook, a fully interactive live quiz show.
Born and raised in London to Austrian and Greek parents, Yiolanda's career has taken her to LA and across Europe. She has experience interviewing celebrities, live presenting and extreme sports shows.
Yiolanda currently has a presenter role in Broken News for the BBC
. She is also studying for a diploma in canine behaviour and psychology. Recently, she left top Quiz TV channel The Great Big British Quiz
for ITV
's The Mint
. After the first series of The Mint ended, Yiolanda joined the team of the ITV quiz show Glitterball
, and later Make Your Play
, also on ITV.
Carlton Television
Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
, CITV
CITV
CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...
and Nickelodeon, with her friend Mounya Khamlichi. She has recently hosted a prime time entertainment show Dare U as well as filming Off The Hook, a fully interactive live quiz show.
Born and raised in London to Austrian and Greek parents, Yiolanda's career has taken her to LA and across Europe. She has experience interviewing celebrities, live presenting and extreme sports shows.
Yiolanda currently has a presenter role in Broken News for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. She is also studying for a diploma in canine behaviour and psychology. Recently, she left top Quiz TV channel The Great Big British Quiz
The Great Big British Quiz
The Great Big British Quiz , which ceased operating on 4 May 2007 was an interactive quiz based channel on which viewers where invited to phone in to solve puzzles in return for cash and prizes. It broadcast from studios in Battersea, London, England, it was usually seen on Sky Digital...
for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's The Mint
The Mint (game show)
The Mint was a live, late night, interactive quiz show with celebrity guests and live studio contestants filmed in a large extravagant set designed to look like the inside of a mansion. The programme, which was dogged by criticism that its questions were ambiguous and arbitrary, aired on ITV and...
. After the first series of The Mint ended, Yiolanda joined the team of the ITV quiz show Glitterball
Glitterball
Glitterball was a live, late night, interactive television quiz show in the United Kingdom. It was broadcast under the ITV Play branding on ITV a few nights a week from around midnight , and from 1.00am on ITV2. The show launched on 19 February 2007. Both Glitterball and Make Your Play alternated...
, and later Make Your Play
Make Your Play
Make Your Play was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in the UK on the ITV Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday September 29, 2006 on ITV and ITV Play....
, also on ITV.