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by CHRIS BARRY

Name: Violet Manson

Age: “99”

Occupation: Web chat hostess/reality TV personality

Bio: This spirited NDG gal was weaned in Hawkesbury and came to Montreal as a sweet young thing of 18 “because it was a place where I could be freaky and it was okay—a really open, liberal city.” Soon finding herself flat broke, young Violet, who had already posed for a series of soft-core nude goth photos on the Web, decided to go whole hog and find employment as an adult Web chat hostess, which she promptly did, and has been happily doing for the past several years. Currently poised for reality TV mega-stardom, the last year of Violet’s life can be witnessed via Showcase’s Webdreams program, which airs Friday nights at 10 p.m. She drives a banged up 1995 Toyota Tercel and can be contacted via her MySpace page, www.myspace.com/violetmanson.

Does being a “goth” Web chat hostess mean she writes depressing poetry with one hand while pleasuring herself with the other, all to the sounds of Robert Smith and the Cure in the background? “Nah, I’m not a depressing person at all. It’s a gothabilly sort of thing. That’s a word I made up because I’m both goth and rockabilly. It’s my look, my music, my attitude, I guess, but goth-a-billy sums me up pretty good.”

Do her parents know the line of work she’s in? “Well, my mother found one of my business cards, and since she doesn’t know how to work a computer she called over my dad, who got the shock of his life. They were pretty disappointed at the time, but what they didn’t understand is that I really enjoy doing this. Hey, I’m getting paid to be sexy and beautiful and people compliment me all the time, and really, who else gets to cum while they’re at work?”

Does she really cum at work? “Well, not in every session, but at least once every shift I’ll finish myself off, sometimes as often as four times in a four-hour shift, but that’s the exception.”

How much she currently earns doing Web chat: Roughly $600 for a 16-hour week. “It’s not bad, but hopefully now with the show airing I’ll start earning more.”

On constantly being filmed: “After a while, you forget the cameras are around. The only time it was hard was when I was having a bit of a breakdown in Florida, I was crying and they filmed it for like 15 minutes. I was hoping they’d just turn off the cameras but they wouldn’t. So finally I said, ‘Don’t you have enough footage already? Because all I really want now is a hug.’ And then, finally, they stopped. The only other times I didn’t like them filming me was when I was having a private chat.”

How about when she was wiping her ass after an early morning beer shit? “No, they never asked to film me going to the bathroom.”

Where you might find her hangin’: Brutopia, Sky, Unity.

Childhood ambition: To become a model.

Last book read: Dharma Punx by Noah Levine.

Musical preferences: Tool, Peaches, NIN

Words of wisdom: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Comments: Dimwit@openface.ca