Pippo Baudo

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Pippo Baudo
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Pippo Baudo in 2016
Born
Giuseppe Vittorio Raimondo Baudo

(1936-06-07) 7 June 1936 (age 87)
Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, Italy
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • television producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1959–2022
Spouse
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(m. 1986;div. 2004)​

Giuseppe Vittorio Raimondo "Pippo" Baudo (born 7 June 1936) is one of the most famous Italian television presenters, with a career spanning six decades. He is often nicknamed "Superpippo" (referencing the Italian name of Super Goof). Baudo has also been the artistic director and president of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.

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Career

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Baudo in 1975

Baudo was born in Militello in Val di Catania. While studying law at the University of Catania, he became involved in entertainment as an actor and host. He also learned to play the piano. He graduated with a degree in law, despite his interest in entertainment. At the end of the 1950s, he became a singer and pianist for Orchestra Moonlight. In 1959, for the first time, Pippo appeared on Italian TV during a "Caravella dei Successi" episode, broadcast from Palermo.

He gained success hosting several RAI programmes, as well as serving as the artistic director. Pippo signed with Mediaset but has never been able to reclaim his past success. He experienced a resurgence in his career when he hosted "Novecento" on RAI, which led to re-hosting the popular Sunday-afternoon show named "Domenica In" and the "Festival della canzone italiana".

In the 1970s, he helped establish and work for the Catania-based private channel "Antenna Sicilia". In 1987, he hosted "Festival" on Mediaset after a controversy with RAI president, Enrico Manca. However, years later he returned to RAI 1 with Gran Premio; his show "Serata d'Onore" having been broadcast on Rai Due.

On the opening night of the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, shortly after the beginning of the show a man, Pino Pagano, sat on the edge of the gallery of the theatre showing his intention to commit suicide by jumping below: he was eventually stopped by Baudo himself amid the applause of the audience. [1]

In 1997, he signed again with Mediaset, but his shows "La canzone del secolo" and "Tiramisù" had very little success. In 1999, Baudo was asked by Rai Tre to host a new prime time programme, "Giorno dopo Giorno", it is now called "Novecento".

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

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

Personal life

In 2004, Baudo and his wife, Italian soprano Katia Ricciarelli, divorced, who had been married since 1986. He has two children, Alessandro, born in 1962, who lives in Australia, and Tiziana, born in 1970 from his first wife.

Acting credits

YearTitleRole(s)Notes
1968 Zum zum zum - La canzone che mi passa per la testa HimselfCameo appearance
1969 Zum zum zum n° 2
Il suo nome è Donna Rosa Duke Pippo
1970 W le donne Colonel Bertoluzzi
1980Delitto in via TelaudaHimselfTelevision film
1981L'esercito più pazzo del mondoCameo appearance
1982 Casa Cecilia The presenterEpisode: "Un genio in famiglia"
1983 "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" HimselfCameo appearance
1985 I Am an ESP
1990 I promessi sposi PennelloneTV series; main role
1993 Anni 90: Parte II HimselfCameo appearance
2004Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e CiccioDocumentary film
2010 L'ultimo gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2011 All at Sea Cameo appearance

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN   978-8863462296.
  2. ↑ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
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