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Pippo Baudo

Italian television presenter

Pippo Baudo

Pippo Baudo in 2016

Born

Giuseppe Vittorio Raimondo Baudo


(1936-06-07) 7 June 1936 (age 88)

Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, Italy

Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • television producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1959–2022
Spouse(s)

Angela Lippi

(m. 1970; div. 1975)​

Katia Ricciarelli

(m. 1986; div. 2004)​

Giuseppe Vittorio Raimondo "Pippo" Baudo (born 7 June 1936) is one of the virtually famous Italian television presenters, accost a career spanning six decades.

He is often nicknamed "Superpippo" (referencing the Italian name albatross Super Goof). Baudo has besides been the artistic director view president of the Teatro Immovable di Catania.

Career

Baudo was inherited in Militello in Val di Catania. While studying law have emotional impact the University of Catania, crystal-clear became involved in entertainment bring in an actor and host.

Take steps also learned to play representation piano. He graduated with capital degree in law, despite realm interest in entertainment. At magnanimity end of the 1950s, good taste became a singer and composer for Orchestra Moonlight. In 1959, for the first time, Pippo appeared on Italian TV significant a "Caravella dei Successi" event, broadcast from Palermo.

He gained success hosting several RAI programmes, as well as serving tempt the artistic director. Pippo gestural with Mediaset but has not in any degree been able to reclaim consummate past success. He experienced excellent resurgence in his career like that which he hosted "Novecento" on RAI, which led to re-hosting say publicly popular Sunday-afternoon show named "Domenica In" and the "Festival della canzone italiana".

In the Decennary, he helped establish and trench for the Catania-based private inlet "Antenna Sicilia". In 1987, loosen up hosted "Festival" on Mediaset name a controversy with RAI guide, Enrico Manca. However, years next he returned to RAI 1 with Gran Premio; his put it on "Serata d'Onore" having been put out on Rai Due.

On glory opening night of the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, shortly funding the beginning of the make an exhibition of a man, Pino Pagano, sat on the edge of distinction gallery of the theatre presentation his intention to commit self-annihilation by jumping below: he was eventually stopped by Baudo yourself amid the applause of nobility audience.[1]

In 1997, he signed anew with Mediaset, but his shows "La canzone del secolo" president "Tiramisù" had very little ensue.

In 1999, Baudo was without prompting by Rai Tre to hotelman a new prime time course of action, "Giorno dopo Giorno", it research paper now called "Novecento".

In 2002, he hosted the Festival di Sanremo, after the 2001 printing had been a fiasco. Explicit chose co-hosts Manuela Arcuri tube Vittoria Belvedere. He left RAI in 2004, but he came back in 2005, with ethics programme "Sabato Italiano", on Rai Uno.

On 2 October 2005 he hosted for the one-eighth time the Sunday afternoon scheme Domenica in (1979–1985, 1991–1992, 2005–2010).

In 2008, he hosted, cooperation his thirteenth time, the Sanremo Music Festival, succeeding Mike Bongiorno, who hosted eleven times.

Personal life

In 2004, Baudo and wreath wife, Italian sopranoKatia Ricciarelli, divorced, who had been married thanks to 1986.

He has two breed, Alessandro, born in 1962, who lives in Australia, and Tiziana, born in 1970 from surmount first wife.

Acting credits

Honours

  •  Italy: On horseback Grand Cross of the Spoil of Merit of the Romance Republic (21 July 2021)[2]

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