Bridget Maasland is a video jockey, television presenter and producer from Den Haag (The Hague) in the Netherlands. She worked as the pit reporter for both series of Dutch Robot Wars.
Robot Wars[]
- "Well Rob, it constantly amazes me that behind those merciless fighting machines are such kind and quiet people, it’s really unbelievable."
- — Bridget Maasland in Dutch Series 1, Heat E (translated from Dutch)
Bridget Maasland reports from the Pit gantry, Dutch Series 1, Heat C (Mech+ version)
As the pit reporter for both series of Dutch Robot Wars, Bridget Maasland would interview all competing teams before and after their battles throughout the show. While fulfilling her role to introduce and update the audience on competitors' robots, she was not afraid to mock or berate certain teams where she felt this was deserved. Otherwise, she was generally seen encouraging the roboteers in their efforts; for example, she complemented the design of Alien Destructor's bodywork in Series 1, Heat B.
Bridget Maasland in The Pits
Throughout Series 1, Maasland presented the show with a flatter hairstyle, but rolled her hair up for Series 2 to give her a strikingly different appearance in both series.
Maasland would also host the preview special Robot Wars: The Kick-Off, which offered an introduction and behind-the-scenes insight into preparations for the first Dutch series. Speaking in both Dutch and English, she interviewed various teams and Robot Wars personalities throughout the programme, the latter including lead House Roboteer Chris Reynolds and UK Series presenter Craig Charles.
Outside Robot Wars[]
She originally worked as a model in both the Netherlands and in Barcelona. She became a full-time video jockey and television presenter in 1995, originally working for the Dutch music station TMF. She joined BNN five years later and presented various different shows on the network including Dutch Robot Wars until she left in 2005 to join the Talpa TV network. Here she presented the fifth and sixth series of the Dutch version of Big Brother (the German version of which had been presented by Robot Wars German dub presenter Christian Möllmann) and also produced many of her own shows. In 2007 she left to join the commercial station RTL Nederland where she has continued to present and produce her own shows. In 2022, she competed in the Dutch version of The Masked Singer as "Paard" (Horse), where she was the fifth of fifteen celebrities to be unmasked.
Trivia[]
- Bridget Maasland is the only pit reporter outside of the UK Series to maintain her role for a second series of the show.