Years active 1990–present Name Ivo Widlak | Website www.ivowidlak.com Role Journalist | |
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Born July 5, 1978 (age 45) ( 1978-07-05 ) Knurow, Poland Occupation Journalist, Talk show host, Television presenter Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States Profiles | ||
Ivo Widlak - Wiadomosci - TVP Chicago - Archiwum - 20 Wrzesien 2004
Ivo Widlak, born July 5, 1978 in Knurow, Poland - international press, radio and tv journalist. He started as a very young reporter at weekly newspaper “Przeglad Lokalny”. Then he started hosting TV show for children and teenagers called “Kleks” on TVP Katowice. The same year, in 1995, wrote scripts and hosted “5-10-15”, another show for children and teenagers on TVP1 on Telewizja Polska. Later he co-developed and co-hosted “Twoj Problem Nasza Glowa” on Telewizja Wisla later TVN (Poland). In 1998 he moved to Warsaw to co-host "Rower Blazeja" on TVP1 on Telewizja Polska.
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- Ivo Widlak Wiadomosci TVP Chicago Archiwum 20 Wrzesien 2004
- Ivo Widlak Wiadomosci TVP Chicago Archiwum 23 Wrzesien 2004
- Deportation controversy
- References
During his career he worked for Radio Puls in Gliwice and Radio ZET in Warsaw. In 2001 he moved permanently to Chicago, and in 2004 he created and hosted own talk show titled “Ivo na zywo” and produced and hosted daily news program on TVPChicago broadcast on Channel 34 WJYS. He also has been an editor-in-chief of a couple of popular internet news websites in Polish language. He raised to fame within the Polish-American community as an investigative journalist in the United States, for uncovering corruption and irregularities that took place with the renovation of the building of the Polish Consulate General, Chicago titled "Consulgate" (the Supreme Chamber of Control of the Republic of Poland informed by Widlak later confirmed that irregularities occurred at all stages of implementation of the renovation, and the final cost was in the amount of $8.2 million). President of the Polish Cultural Institute in Chicago.
Ivo Widlak - Wiadomosci - TVP Chicago - Archiwum - 23 Wrzesien 2004
Deportation controversy
On December 14, 2012, pinknews.co.uk reported that Ivo Widlak is facing the risk of deportation from the United States due to his bisexuality. Widlak has been married for ten years to a woman, Lale. However, someone in the local Polish community, later revealed it was attorney Christopher Kurczaba, reportedly went to authorities and claimed that Ivo and Lale were in a sham marriage, and that Ivo was in fact homosexual.
The Widlaks are not a same-sex couple, so they do not fall under the protection of a recent executive order that President Obama signed in September 2012. That order stated that foreigners in a same-sex relationship with an American citizen have the same anti-deportation protections as foreigners married to an American citizen.