Emerging from a television-savvy family-her father Reijo Salminen was a well-known game-show host-she honed a comic persona that caricatures a pretentious, self-centered blonde speaking with an exaggerated Helsinki nasal tone. Salminen broke into national visibility as a guest host and green-room reporter for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, then anchored her own programs including the eponymous…
