Pia Haraldsen

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Pia Renate Haraldsen (born Pia Renate Strømsnes August 1, 1981) is a Norwegian TV personality, comedian and author, most known for her interviews at the Norwegian TV show Rikets Røst

She is the daughter of Jasmin Haraldsen, who was married to the Norwegian Queen's nephew. ^[1]

1 Career
2 Pia Haraldsen's interview with NYC Councilmember James Oddo
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Career

She started her public career in 2001 by going in Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway's wedding, which she was invited to because of her relation to the queen, ^[2]and in 2004, she received much attention for her dress in the baptism of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway.^{[citation needed]} In the following years she had numerous appearances in Norwegian media.

Her first occupation was as a columnist in Norway’s biggest newspaper; VG. (2004) Then she moved on to the Norwegian edition of magazine Cosmopolitan as a Fashion & Entertainment Editor.(2004/2005) In February 2005 she got a job as a jury member in the TV show Shopaholic at TV 3. Later that year she became the TV host of the shows Kjendisjakten(2005) and then Frokostquiz(2006) at TV 2; Norways biggest commercial channel^{[citation needed]}

In February 2007 she started as Political Editor at one of TV 2's most populuar shows Rikets Røst ( translated as "The Voice of the Nation") hosted by comedian Otto Jespersen where she punked and provoked political interview subjects with dupe questions and her fake ignorance.^{[citation needed]}

November 2007 she published her first book; Pias bekjennelser, shopping, sjekking, skikk og bruk.

[edit] Pia Haraldsen's interview with NYC Councilmember James Oddo

In the summer of 2007, Haraldsen filmed an interview with New York City politician James Oddo.^[3] She asked how Barack Obama could run for president, as he is not a U.S. citizen (she said she read somewhere he was "African-American") and asked if Senator Clinton could be president after the "cigar incident?". The councilman reacted to the questions and threw the crew out of the his office.

After the interview was shown on Norwegian Television it was posted on YouTube^[4] and attracted attention. Haraldsen was interviewed by large American media outlets like USA Today, Inside Edition and FOX News.^[5]