Penélope Contrim Nova (
Salvador, 19 August 1973) was an
MTV Brazil VJ. She's a daughter of
Marcelo Nova.
Career
Penélope began her career in radio, and in 1997 joined MTV Brazil,
where she worked as a TAR (Talent and Artist Relations) assistant. In 2001 she was invited to host a show called ''Riff'', on which she showed
video clips
Video clips refer to mostly short videos, most of the time called memes, which are short videos of silly jokes and funny clips, most of the time coming from movies or any entertainment videos such as YouTube. The term is also used more loosely to ...
of
rock n' roll songs, and some time later
Ponto Pê, a program that gave especially young people advice on sex. Penélope also hosted, by the year 2007, the youth program ''A Fila Anda''. Penélope recently had two other TV shows, one called ''
MTV na Rua'' (MTV on the Street), on which she chatted with young people to ask their opinions about several issues of daily life, and the second was ''
Lavanderia MTV'', on which she discussed themes about social problems. Her contract with MTV ended 'by mutual consent' in February 2011. However, in March 2011 MTV reinstated her on their Saturday morning slot.
References
1973 births
Living people
People from Salvador, Bahia
The Farm (TV series) contestants
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