Jaime Cantizano Camacho (born 22 July 1973 in

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) is a Spanish television and radio presenter.

Career

At 17 years old, Cantizano started his career in radio broadcasting as a speaker in his hometown's Los 40 Principales station where he also voiced commercials; from there he passed to the regional

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station and afterwards to Onda Cero. In parallel to his work in radio, he collaborated with newspaper ''El Correo de Andalucía''. In 2001, Cantizano debuted in television in local channel Localia Televisión, hosting a morning show together with Concha Galán. In 2002 he was hired by nationwide channel Antena 3 to co-host Ana Rosa Quintana's talk show ''Sabor a ti''. In 2003, the channel offered him to host weekly prime time talk show ''¿Dónde estás corazón?'', which focused on the private lives of celebrities. Despite the show attracting criticism and being characterised as

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, it aired until September 2011, conducted by Cantizano. During the summer of 2006, Cantizano hosted daily quiz show ''

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''. From September 2006 to June 2007, Cantizano presented daily talk show ''En Antena'', which was replaced in September 2007 by talk show ''A3Bandas'', also hosted by Cantizano together with María Patiño and Dani Martínez. The show was retired in 2008. In 2008, Cantizano hosted, together with Aitor Trigos and Eva González,

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series ''Tres deseos'', the Spanish adaptation of '' Three Wishes''. In the summer of 2012, Cantizano conducted music game show ''Dando la nota''. In October 2012, Cantizano finished his contract with Antena 3. From September 2013 to June 2017, Cantizano presented radio breakfast show ''Atrévete'', on

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. In 2014, Cantizano worked for

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(TVE) for the first time hosting the ninth season of '' Mira quién baila'', the Spanish version of ''

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''. In 2017, Cantizano hosted '' Objetivo Eurovisión'', the Spanish national final to select the Spanish entry for the

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. From March 2017 to May 2017 he also hosted ''Jugando con las estrellas'', the Spanish version of ''

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''. In October 2017 Cantizano was hired by Onda Cero to present its weekend morning radio show.

Personal life

On 28 July 2016, Cantizano became the father of Leo, born by a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantizano, Jaime 1973 births Living people People from Jerez de la Frontera Spanish television presenters Spanish radio personalities