Veronica Belmont
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Veronica Ann Belmont (born July 21, 1982) is an American online media personality. She was formerly the co-host of the
Background
Belmont's mother was a vice president at Coleco.[2] Belmont went to school at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut before attending Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, to study audio production and new media studies. After graduation in 2004, she worked briefly in Boston and eventually secured an internship at CNET. She resides in San Francisco, California with her husband, former Engadget editor Ryan Block.[3]
Belmont learned she is
Career
CNET
Belmont started as an intern producing audio content for
Belmont made her video debut on CNET on April 6, 2006, on an Insider Secrets segment titled "Give your PC a Mac-over". Since then, she has hosted videos from
Mahalo
Belmont left CNET in July 2007 to join Mahalo.[6] She hosted and produced her own podcast called Mahalo Daily, covering subjects of her choosing. Her first video was an interview with Leeroy Jenkins at BlizzCon 2007.[7] On April 2, 2008, Belmont announced that she would be leaving Mahalo Daily within two weeks.[8] This was reported by TV Week on April 3, 2008.[9]
Revision3
On April 9, 2008,
In October 2012, Belmont began hosting Fact or Fictional, a short format show on Revision3's new YouTube channel techfeed.[11] The show examines technology from popular fictional media and determines if the technology is or could be real.
Belmont left Revision3 in November 2013.[12]
Qore
In June 2008,
Sword and Laser
On October 16, 2007, Belmont started co-hosting a podcast with
From 2012 to 2013, a video incarnation of the show ran on Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry.[15] Over 30 episodes were produced.
TWiT.tv
On October 30, 2011, Leo Laporte announced on This Week in Tech that Belmont would cohost TWiT's upcoming gaming show with Brian Brushwood called Game On!.[16] The show's first official episode aired January 15, 2012, at 6:00 pm Pacific time on a live webcast in the TWiT network. The last episode of the show was uploaded on April 9, 2012.[17]
Voice acting
In 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, she was the voice of Light Switch 01, Light Switch 02, Stealth Suit Mk II and Christine Royce.
BBC America
Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers premiered on March 18, 2013 on BBC America.[18] Belmont is one of the co-hosts and testers who tests the latest gadgets in outrageous and extreme ways.
IRL podcast
Starting June 2017, Belmont hosted a podcast called IRL - Online Life is Real Life which is produced by Mozilla.[19][20] Belmont left the podcast after season 3 and was replaced by Manoush Zomorodi in season 4.[21][20]
Adobe Spark
In July 2018, Belmont became a product manager and evangelist on the
References and notes
- ^ "Buzz Out Loud 1588: loved the show". CBS Interactive. 5 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
- ^ "Growing Up Geek: Veronica Belmont". 21 June 2010. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "Inside". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "IRL Podcast: Virtual Connections". irlpodcast.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
- ^ "Videos - CNET". Cnettv.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ Belmont, Veronica (2007-07-10). "Big (early) announcement day!". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
So, this announcement is coming sooner than I expected, but a little birdie was set loose into the blogosphere today, so here we are! It's true, I'm leaving CNET to work full-time for Mahalo, producing a daily video show.
- ^ Veronica Belmont » Interview: Leeroy Jenkins Archived August 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Moving on to new projects – Veronica Belmont Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Belmont Says Aloha to 'Mahalo' - TVWeek". www.tvweek.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "Revision3 says "aloha" to internet superstar Veronica Belmont" (Press release). Revision3. 2008-04-09. Archived from the original on 2008-04-13. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
She will bring that same genius to Revision3, where she will co-host Tekzilla
- ^ "Revision3 Launches Tech Feed" (Press release). Revision3. 2012-10-08. Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
Fact or Fictional with Veronica Belmont
- ^ "Revision3 > Blog > Veronica Belmont Says Farewell to Tekzilla and Revision3". Archived from the original on 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ "PSN subscription-based Qore features exclusive content" (Press release). ars technica. 2008-06-03. Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
- ^ Belmont, Veronica (October 2011). "On to the next adventure!". Archived from the original on October 21, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
- ^ "Sword and Laser - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
- ^ Leo Laporte (2011-10-30). "This Week in Tech 325 - Squeezing Little Lemons" (Podcast). TWiT.tv. Archived from the original on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ Brian Brushwood and Veronica Belmont. "Game On!" (Podcast). TWiT.tv. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "Gizmodo: Gadget Testers". BBC America. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- ^ Hill, Paul (2017-06-20). "Mozilla launching a new podcast to be hosted by Veronica Belmont". Neowin. Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
- ^ a b "IRL Podcast". Archived from the original on 2018-10-16. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
- ^ Belmont, Veronica [@Veronica] (October 18, 2018). "Sad to say that Season 3 was my last with IRL" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Adobe MAX 2018". www.adobe-max.com. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
External links
- Official website
- Veronica Belmont at IMDb