Eládio Taboas Clímaco (born 27 October 1941) is a Portuguese television presenter best known for hosting ''

Festival da Canção (; "Song Festival") or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival produced and broadcast by (RTP) to select for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was first held in 1964. History Like most music festivals in isolated ...

'', ''

Jeux Sans Frontières ''Jeux sans frontières'' (; "Games Without Frontiers" in French) is an international television competition organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for thirty seasons, from 1965 to 1999, between members of the union who participated ...

'', commentating on the

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for RTP viewers, and providing voice narration for many television documentaries.

Career

After several years of training in theatre and cinema, Clímaco joint RTP in 1972 and began hosting the entertainment show ''Domingo à Noite'' which was broadcast from

Teatro Maria Matos The Maria Matos Theatre () is a theatre located in the Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish of Alvalade, in the Concelho, municipality and Portugal, Portuguese capital of Lisbon. History Originally, the building was designed by the architect Fernan ...

. In 1976 Clímaco began hosting ''

'' (Portuguese hits for the Eurovision Song Contest), he also presented ''

'' for Portuguese viewers from 1979 until 1997 and commented on the

for RTP viewers between 1976 and 2006 on 14 occasions, during the presentation of the Dutch vote in the ''

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'', Clímaco didn't translate properly the gay remarks spokesman

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gave to presenter

Sakis Rouvas Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas (, ; born 5 January 1972), also known :wikt:mononym, mononymously as Sakis, is a Greeks, Greek singer, actor, businessman and former pole vaulter. Born in Corfu, Rouvas won medals with Greece's U18 and U20 national sp ...

and said "he was saying that they really look like Greeks". In recent years Clímaco has still remained associate with RTP, in 2006 he participated in ''Dança Comigo'' (Portuguese counterpart of the UK's ''

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'') and in 2007 he participated in the Golden Anniversary programme to celebrate 50 Years of RTP. Currently he is a presenter on RTP Memória.

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* 1941 births Living people Mass media people from Lisbon Portuguese agnostics Portuguese television presenters Portuguese game show hosts Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest {{Portugal-bio-stub