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Full Name
  
Fabio Fazio

Employer
  
Education
  
Years active
  
1982–present

Spouse
  
Gioia Selis (m. 1994)

Occupation
  
Television presenter

Role
  
Television presenter

Nationality
  
Italian

Name
  
Fabio Fazio


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Born
  
30 November 1964 (age 59) (
1964-11-30
)
Savona, Liguria, Italy

Children
  
Michele Fazio, Caterina Fazio

Parents
  
Delia Fazio, Giuseppe Fazio

TV shows
  
Che tempo che fa, Vieni via con me, Quello che (non) ho

Similar People
  
Luciana Littizzetto, Filippa Lagerback, Roberto Saviano, Carlo Conti, Massimo Gramellini

Fabio Fazio ([ˈfaːbjo ˈfattsjo]) (born 30 November 1964) is an Italian television presenter. After debuting in 1982, he presented many TV programs, including Quelli che... il Calcio, Vieni via con me and Quello che (non) ho. Since 2003, he presents the weekly talk show Che tempo che fa, broadcast by Rai 3.

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He presented the Sanremo Music Festival in 1999 and in 2000. In June 2012, RAI confirmed he will present his third edition of the Italian singing competition in 2013.

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Early life

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Fabio Fazio was born in Savona on 30 November 1964, to Giuseppe, from Varazze, and Delia from Calabria. After receiving the high school diploma at the liceo classico Gabriello Chiabrera in Savona, Fazio started studying Law, following his mother's suggestions. He later decided to leave his law studies, enrolling in the University of Genoa, where he graduated with 110/110 in Literature, discussing a thesis about literary elements in songs written by Italian cantautori.

First radio and TV appearances

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In 1980, Fazio debuted as a radio personality, appearing in local stations such as Radio Vecchia Savona and Radio Golfo Ligure. In 1982, he debuted as a celebrity impersonator at RAI's radio program Black Out.

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After winning a contest organized by the Italian national broadcaster, Fazio made his first TV appearance in 1983, when he took part in Raffaella Carrà's show Pronto Raffaella?. During the following years, he appeared in many other TV programs, including Rai 1's game show Loretta Goggi in quiz, Rete 4's Sponsor City and Rai 3's L'orecchiocchio.

Fabio Fazio Che tempo che fa al via con in esclusiva Malala Yousafzai

In 1987, Fazio regularly appeared on Forza Italia, one of the first TV programs broadcast by Odeon TV, mixing talks about soccer matches with entertainment skatches. Between 1989 and 1990, he also worked for RAI programs Fate il vostro gioco and Mai dire mai. In 1990 and in 1991 he presented Banane, a satirical program broadcast by Telemontecarlo. For the same network, he worked as an author for the show T'amoTV.

Quelli che... il Calcio and TV success

In 1993, Fazio started presenting the show Quelli che... il Calcio, broadcast by Rai 3 and inspired by his previous show Forza Italia. The program, based on live commentary of Serie A soccer matches, strongly contributed making him popular in Italy. He presented the show until 2001, when he was replaced by Simona Ventura, after leaving the Italian public broadcaster. In 1997, he received the Premio Regia Tv for his show Anima mia, presented with Italian singer Claudio Baglioni. During the award ceremony, he also received the prize for Male TV Personality of the Year.

In 1999, he presented the Sanremo Music Festival with virologist Nobel Prize-winner Renato Dulbecco and French actress and model Laetitia Casta. The following year, he was confirmed as the presenter of the singing competition. Other presenters of the show in 2000 were operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti, Italian actor Teo Teocoli and Spanish model Inés Sastre.

In 2001, he left RAI and signed a contract with the newborn private channel La7. On 24 June 2001, he appeared on the inaugural show of the network, together with Gad Lerner, Eros Ramazzotti and Pino Daniele. However, his first talk show for La7 was canceled a few days before its planned debut.

Che tempo che fa and the shows with Roberto Saviano

In 2003, Fazio started presenting the talk show Che tempo che fa, in which he interviews entertainers, politicians, artists and scientists. In November 2010, he presented Vieni via con me with Italian writer Roberto Saviano. The show was a big success, becoming the most watched show to be broadcast by Rai 3 in ten years. Despite this, the show was not confirmed for the following year, therefore Fazio and Saviano decided to move the program to La7, renaming it Quello che (non) ho. The show, consisting in three episodes, achieved an average share of 12.67%, with 2.9 million average viewers.

Sanremo Music Festival

In June 2012, RAI announced Fabio Fazio as the presenter of the 63rd Sanremo Music Festival. Luciana Littizzetto was later confirmed as the co-presenter of the show.

References

Fabio Fazio Wikipedia


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