Giancarlo Magalli

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Giancarlo Magalli
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Magalli in 2015
Born (1947-07-05) 5 July 1947 (age 74)
Rome, Italy

Giancarlo Magalli (born 5 July 1947) is an Italian television writer, presenter, actor and voice actor.

Life and career[]

Born in Rome, Magalli studied at the Istituto Massimiliano Massimo, having Mario Draghi and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo as classmates.[1]

He started his artistic career as an entertainer in the first Italian tourist village at the end of the 1960s.[1] In the seventies he became collaborator of Pippo Franco, writing his monologues.[1][2] He was contracted as a television writer by RAI in 1977.[1]

In 1985, Magalli debuted as a television presenter with the Rai Uno TV-quiz Pronto chi gioca?.[1][2] He later hosted several successful TV-programs, including Fantastico, I fatti vostri and Domenica in.[1][2]

For seven years Magalli has done volunteer work with the municipal police of Rome, of which he is honorary agent, going on patrol two nights a week, receiving the degree of sergeant, then to lieutenant and captain.[1] He is also an honorary carabiniere.[1]

In April 2007, Magalli was appointed Commendatore of the Italian Republic.[1] In January 2015, he ranked first in an Il Fatto Quotidiano poll resulting the preferred candidate to be the successor of Giorgio Napolitano as President of the Italian Republic.[3][4][5]

Controversy[]

In 2017, he was involved in a live controversy with I fatti vostri co-host Adriana Volpe, who had revealed that Magalli was going to be 70 that year. The immediate reply "Pijatela in saccoccia te e quelli che non dicono l'età che c'hai te!" (Roman dialect for "Go getting shafted, you and all those not saying how old you are!") caused huge media coverage,[6] eventually leading Striscia la notizia reporter Valerio Staffelli to award Magalli with a Tapiro d'oro.[7] Later Volpe sued Magalli after he had made further allegations about her career, entailing a trial in Milan.[8]

On 7 July 2020, Magalli posted an image accompanied by the inscription "0.9%" and a shushing face emoji on Facebook. Apparently, the host was referring to Volpe's poor TV broadcast audience share. The post was quickly removed, but it had already led to huge controversy. The following day, Volpe opened her broadcast stating: "Dear Giancarlo, don't you dare make this gesture [the one the shushing face emoji represents] to me, cause you've been trying to shut me up for many years, but you never managed to do that and you won't do that today either. (...) And you, Giancarlo, with this gesture, always willing to shut up people, you show no respect to people and you show no respect to women. And I won't let you do that".[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 978-88-317-9599-9.
  2. ^ a b c Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni, Enciclopedia della Televisione, Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. ISBN 881150466X.
  3. ^ Massimiliano Lenzi (25 January 2015). "Magalli e l'endorsement del "Il Fatto"". Il Tempo. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ^ Alessandro Martorana (23 January 2015). "Tutti pazzi per Magalli: perché il web vuole mister "Affari Vostri" al Quirinale?". International Business Times. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. ^ Alessandra Menzani (23 January 2015). "Giancarlo Magalli: "Ho vinto alle Quirinarie, ma il Fatto si vergogna e vuole che mi ritiri"". Libero. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Magalli attacca Adriana Volpe: «Sapeste come fa a lavorare da 20 anni...». Bufera sul conduttore" (in Italian). 31 March 2017.
  7. ^ "A Striscia la notizia Tapiro d'oro a Giancarlo Magalli per la polemica con Adriana Volpe a "I Fatti Vostri"" (in Italian).
  8. ^ "Il tribunale di Milano ha deciso: rinvio a giudizio per Giancarlo Magalli, ha diffamato Adriana Volpe" (in Italian). 10 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Magalli-Volpe: lui la sbeffeggia per lo share, lei lo attacca. I retroscena di una lite infinita" (in Italian). 7 August 2020.

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