Alessandro Cecchi Paone (born 16 September 1961) is an Italian television presenter, journalist, radio and television writer, and politician.

Early life and education.

Born in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

, Cecchi Paone graduated in

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

. He started his television career while still a teenager, hosting from 1977 to 1980 the

RAI (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels a ...

program ''Trenta minuti giovani''.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni (1996 – 2003). "Cecchi Paone, Alessandro". ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milan. pp. 119-20. .

Career

In the 1980s, Cecchi Paone collaborated as writer to several Rai Radio 3 journalistic and cultural programs and to several documentaries and hosted several shows. In 1991, he became a newscaster of ''

TG5 ''TG5'' (''TeleGiornale 5'') is a news programme on the Italian TV channel Canale 5, part of the Mediaset network and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is broadcast domestically on Canale 5 and TgCom24, Mediaset TGcom24 several times a day. The ...

'', and after a few months also of '' TG2''. For a few years, he was a popular personality of

Rai 2 Rai 2 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting '' TG2'' news bulletins, ta ...

, where he hosted some successful shows such as ''In famiglia'' and ''La cronaca in diretta''. In 1996, Cecchi Paone returned to

Mediaset Mediaset S.p.A. is an Italian mass media and television production and distribution company that is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. The company is controlled by the holding company MFE – MediaForEurope (the original ...

, where in 1997 he launched his most successful work, the science TV show ''La Macchina del Tempo'', which lasted until 2006 and also generated a satellite thematic channel, . In 2016, he hosted the daily newscast ''

TG4 TG4 (; , ) is an Irish free-to-air public service television channel. It launched on 31 October 1996 and is available online and through its on-demand service TG4 Player in Ireland and beyond. TG4 was initially known as (TnaG), before bein ...

''. During his career, Paone took part in several reality shows, notably three editions of ''

L'isola dei famosi ''L'isola dei famosi'' (; Italian for ''The Celebrity Island'' or ''The island of the famous'') is an Italian Reality television, reality show, first aired on Rai 2 in 2003, before moving to Canale 5 in 2015. This program is the Italian ''Survivor ...

'' and the third season of ''

Grande Fratello VIP ''Grande Fratello VIP'' is the celebrity version of ''Grande Fratello'', the Italian version of the reality television franchise '' Big Brother''. Format Based on the original Dutch version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of "housem ...

''. A member of the

Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party (, PRI) is a political party in Italy established in 1895, which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism, as well as Mazzinianism, a ...

(PRI), Cecchi Paone ran in the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

European Parliament elections with

Forza Italia (FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...

but was not elected. On 29 April 2021, he was appointed advisor to the 7th Commission of Culture on Digital Citizenship the Senate of the Republic.

Personal life

Cecchi Paone was married to Cristina Navarro, to whom he lated divorced. In 2004, he

came out Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBTQ people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. This is often framed and debated as a privacy issue, ...

as a homosexual. In 2023, Cecchi Paone expressed his desire for

same-sex adoption Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children or adults by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner of the other's biological child or adult ( stepchild adoption). Joint adopt ...

, which is not legal in Italy, with his partner Simone Antolini, a legal sciences student 38 years his junior.

References

External links

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