1. Cornald Maas was born on 22 July 1962 and is a Dutch television presenter who has been known for presenting talk shows in the Netherlands.
12 Facts About Cornald Maas
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Cornald Maas was an editor involved in The Scream of the Lion with Paul de Leeuw, Sonja on Saturday with Sonja Barend and Rolling Fire with Philip Freriks and Leoni Jansen.
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In 2004 and 2005 Maas provided the Dutch commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals.
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Cornald Maas took over as regular commentator for the Dutch television in 2006 for both the semi's and the final after the regular Dutch commentator Willem van Beusekom stepped down and subsequently died the week of the contest from colon cancer.
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On 29 June 2010 Cornald Maas announced he would not be commenting at The 56th Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Cornald Maas' replacements were his co-host at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Daniel Dekker and Dutch singer Jan Smit.
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In 2014, Cornald Maas was recalled again as a Eurovision commentator for the AVROTROS.
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On 31 August 2019, Cornald Maas was named creative advisor for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam.
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Cornald Maas has since continued to be part of the selection committee for the Dutch entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 and subsequent years.
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In 2007 Cornald Maas was one of the judges for the Dutch version of Just The Two Of Us on TV channel Tien.
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Cornald Maas writes a series about children of divorced parents for de Volkskrant.
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Cornald Maas appeared in a 2024 episode of the television show The Masked Singer.