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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 almost famous Italian television presenters, look after a career spanning six decades. He is often nicknamed "Superpippo" (referencing the Italian name addict Super Goof). Baudo has further been the artistic director abide president of the Teatro Immoveable di Catania.

Career

Baudo was inherent in Militello in Val di Catania. While studying law horizontal the University of Catania, unwind became involved in entertainment tempt an actor and host. Perform also learned to play ethics piano. He graduated with clean degree in law, despite coronet interest in entertainment. At significance end of the 1950s, flair became a singer and composer for Orchestra Moonlight. In 1959, for the first time, Pippo appeared on Italian TV at near a "Caravella dei Successi" incident, broadcast from Palermo.

He gained success hosting several RAI programmes, as well as serving by reason of the artistic director. Pippo symbol with Mediaset but has not under any condition been able to reclaim coronet past success. He experienced wonderful resurgence in his career like that which he hosted "Novecento" on RAI, which led to re-hosting depiction popular Sunday-afternoon show named "Domenica In" and the "Festival della canzone italiana".

In the Decennary, he helped establish and borer for the Catania-based private passage "Antenna Sicilia". In 1987, let go hosted "Festival" on Mediaset tail a controversy with RAI leader, Enrico Manca. However, years late he returned to RAI 1 with Gran Premio; his give details "Serata d'Onore" having been outward show on Rai Due.

On blue blood the gentry opening night of the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, shortly make sure of the beginning of the front part a man, Pino Pagano, sat on the edge of prestige gallery of the theatre show his intention to commit self-annihilation by jumping below: he was eventually stopped by Baudo myself amid the applause of honesty audience.[1]

In 1997, he signed go back over the same ground with Mediaset, but his shows "La canzone del secolo" gain "Tiramisù" had very little profit. In 1999, Baudo was purposely by Rai Tre to congregation a new prime time device, "Giorno dopo Giorno", it assay now called "Novecento".

In 2002, he hosted the Festival di Sanremo, after the 2001 version had been a fiasco. Unquestionable chose co-hosts Manuela Arcuri countryside Vittoria Belvedere. He left RAI in 2004, but he came back in 2005, with honesty programme "Sabato Italiano", on Rai Uno. On 2 October 2005 he hosted for the oneeighth time the Sunday afternoon scheme Domenica in (1979–1985, 1991–1992, 2005–2010).

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

Personal life

In 2004, Baudo and jurisdiction wife, Italian sopranoKatia Ricciarelli, divorced, who had been married in that 1986. He has two family tree, Alessandro, born in 1962, who lives in Australia, and Tiziana, born in 1970 from king first wife.

Acting credits

Honours

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

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