Violet Berlin

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Violet Berlin
Born	1969 Zonguldak, Turkey
Occupation	TV and radio broadcaster

Violet Berlin is a Turkish born English television presenter, writer and producer best known for her significant expertise in knowledge of video games.

Violet began presenting in the early 1990s where she began presenting the Bad Influence! video gaming series with Andy Crane on terrestrial television (ITV) at a time where Sega Mega Drive, SNES and Game 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 by Andy 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".^[1]

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.

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 How2. Violet currently lives in Stoke 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.^[2]. 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".