- Violet Berlin
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name = Violet Berlin
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birth_date = 1969
birth_place =Zonguldak ,Turkey
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occupation = TV and radio broadcaster
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footnotes =Violet Berlin is a Turkish born English
television presenter ,writer and producer best known for her significant expertise in knowledge ofvideo games .Berlin began presenting in the early 1990s when she presented the "Bad Influence!" video gaming series with
Andy Crane on terrestrial television (ITV ) at a time whereSega Mega Drive ,SNES andGame Boy products dominated the market. She presented Bad Influence! between 1992 and 1995 in which she also worked with a character named "Nam Rood" played byAndy Wear , a crazy shaven headed cheat expert who in giving viewers cheats for the video games featured on the show by sticking them to his head would refer to things as "slimy fertlers". [ [http://www.bad-influence.co.uk/presenters.htm Bad Influence! : Violet Berlin, Andy Crane, et al ] ]Violet then went on the host a number of other terrestrial shows, including "WildBunch", "
Saturday Disney ", "The Big Bang", and "Bits & Bytes".More recently she is best known for writing and hosting video gaming show "Gamepad", which aired on the Bravo satellite channel between 2001 and 2004. Repeats are now been re-aired on VirginOne at 03:00.
The show ran for four series, and was produced by the company Berlin runs with her partner Gareth Jones, another popular presenter who has presented shows such as
How 2 . Violet currently lives inStoke Newington with Jones and their two sons.Berlin had a distinctive hairstyle which was often bleached white and in a short cropped or funky fashion. [http://www.sausagenet.com/i/p/36-1.jpg] More recently she has favoured a longer and darker style.She currently works as a writer and science communicator for major museum projects such as The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and sometimes appears on Gareth's motoring podcast "Gareth Jones on Speed".
Other appearances
Violet also had cameos as a playable character in the 1994
Codemasters racing videogame, ', its sequel "Micro Machines '96", and as a non-player character in '. [http://bad-influence.co.uk/interview.htm]References
External links
*imdb name|id=1107171|name=Violet Berlin
* [http://s112269266.websitehome.co.uk/retro/interviewviolet.htm www.consolesandconkers.co.uk Interview with Violet Berlin]
* [http://bad-influence.co.uk/interview.htm "Bad Influence! Website" interview with Berlin]
* [http://www.whizzbang.tv/ WhizzBang TV] , Berlin and Jones' television production companyPersondata
NAME= Berlin, Violet
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= TV and radio broadcaster
DATE OF BIRTH= 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH=Zonguldak ,Turkey
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