Steve Blame
Steve Blame is a Screenwriter, Author, Format Developer and Host. He's a multiple Screenwriting Competition Winner. His brands are Identity and Fame. He grasped his sexual identity against the backdrop of the homophobia, sexism, racism, and misogyny of the 70s and 80s. He is one of the original faces of MTV Europe as MTV News Editor and Presenter between 1987 and 1994. He interviewed all major pop stars from Madonna to McCartney, Tina to Elton, and Zappa to Cobain. He presented MTV News, MTV News At Night, The Steve Blame Show, and Take the Blame, He was the main on-air presenter spearheading MTV's pro-social campaigns which included interviews with Gorbachev, Delors, Peres, and even the Dalai Lama. After leaving MTV in 1994, he set up Viva 2 in Germany. Under his direction the channel won the Gold Art Director's Award for its on-air design in 1996. He also set up a youth channel in Luxembourg. His Eyeworks, Grebe co-developed game-show format Where's the Money? launched on TROS in Holland in 2005, ran on Tele-Madrid and was nominated for the Rose d'Or. Blame released his auto-biography Getting Lost is Part of the Journey in 2010 in Germany (Luebbe) and a second book about the neuroses of pop stars (Zwischen Rotwein, Filetsteak und Popstar-Neurosen) was released in 2013. He has appeared on many TV shows in Germany and in 2016 he hosted a prime-time show Songs für die Ewigkeit (Songs for Eternity) on the German channel Vox. Since 2021 he hosts his own podcast POP; The History Makers.