Bridget Maasland

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Bridget Maasland
Years active1993-present

Bridget Maasland (born 9 November 1974) is a Dutch

.

Career

She worked as a

catwalk in fashionshows for children. Her debut on television was a commercial for fruit
as a healthy alternative to sweets.

Later, Maasland became a

Veronica
show, Man O Woman.

She started working for

, 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 Combat 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,

Big Brother 6 on her own.[2]

In May 2006, she appeared in the Dutch edition of Playboy, with the proceeds going to the Dutchpuppy charity.[3]

Other shows have included her own production, Je leven in de steigers (based on

Extreme Home Makeover), the news program NSE, Woef! (own production about dog training), the talk show
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 27 August Bridget's new show "Hoe Word Ik Een New Yorkse Vrouw?" started. It has the same concept as "Hoe Word Ik Een Gooische Vrouw?" She also replaced Renate Verbaan in the second season of Beauty & de Nerd.[1]. Because Bridget and het boy friend Pepijn Padberg were expecting their first child in 2008, she came with the production "Hoe word ik mama in Amsterdam-Zuid?.[2]". Since 2007 Bridget regularly presents the tabloid RTL Boulevard, where she replaces Albert Verlinde. She also presents the programma Lekker Slim!.

On 17 December 2009 it was announced that Bridget had broken up with Pepijn Padberg.[3] From September 2010 until February 2011 [4] she was going steady with Johnny de Mol. In September 2011 it was announced that she has a relationship with company lawyer Pieter van Schaik who is ten years her junior. However, on Monday 16 April 2012 on RTL Boulevard TV she announced that she had terminated this relationship.

From 3 January 2011 Bridget Maasland has been acting the bitchy Carla in the BNN-series Walhalla. At RTL 5 she is one of the presenters of the new program Wie is de Reisleider?, that was seen from January on.

On 21 May 2011 Maasland was laureated with the Amsterdam Fashion Award during the Amsterdam Fashion Gala.

In 2022, she appeared in the television show The Masked Singer.

References

  1. ^ (28 December 2010). Bridget Maasland is niet ambitieus, NU.nl (in Dutch)
  2. ^ (20 August 2006). Bridget mist Ruud bij Big Brother, NU.nl (in Dutch)
  3. ^ (20 April 2006). Bridget vond Playboy-reportage best eng Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Nieuws.nl

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