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1936–2025
Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio "Pippo" Baudo (7 June 1936 – 16 August 2025) was an Italian television presenter. One of the most notable in his native country, he had a career spanning six decades, which included 13 editions of the Sanremo Music Festivalthe highest number for a single presenter.
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Mino Reitano was a great guy, stubborn, the classic immigrant with a great desire to succeed, exuberant, likeable.
An important woman and exceptional artist, Alida Chelli, actress, singer, dancer, sensational artist, who
(About the Pooh) Eternally dedicated to success.
Sicily needs a cultural revolution. It has top-level professionals, teachers, doctors and architects, but they don't get their hands dirty with politics and have delegated it to these professional politicians.
I must thank Silvio Berlusconi who was a man of great sensitivity, as he perfectly understood my state of mind: those who portray him as a ruthless tough guy are lying, he is a very humane person who understands everything.
(About the television programme “”Canzonissima“”) A programme that will have forty million viewers, i.e. all the Italians who will be stuck at home due to the restrictions adopted to deal with the energy crisis.
Me and Bruno Vespa, who co-hosted with me, were awarded the “'TeleRatto 2011”' prize for worst television duo. We really deserved it. There was no worse duo than us.
Talking about Marcello Marchesi is exciting because rarely has a person been so rich in professional qualities, so capable of ranging across every field of entertainment. (p. 124)
Mino was fortunate because he got what he wanted out of life, going from anonymity in the southern provinces to the most important stages in the world of entertainment, where he became a leading figure in his own right.
(About Alida Chelli) She was ill, she fought and suffered a great deal: she no longer liked herself, she didn't want to be seen, I only heard from her on the phone, who knows, perhaps in the end death was a liberation. However, Simone was by her side, in love with his mother.
A guest who made things difficult for me? Only one, Roberto Benigni, whom I love too much, though. The first time he came on the show, while they were filming us from the waist up, he gave me a sharp blow to the genitals with his hand that left me breathless.
(About the conclusion of the broadcasts of “”Canzonissima“”) They realised that they had to stop fighting battles at the expense of the singers and that, as a show, the singing competition was long over.
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