Rickard Olsson-Essé, (born 7 February 1967 in

Gävle Gävle ( ; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 79,004 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the List of cities in Sweden, 13th-most-populated city in Sweden. I ...

) is a Swedish television and radio presenter. He presented '' Bingolotto'' between 2005 and 2008 and since 2008 he presents the quiz show ''" Vem vet mest?" and " Vem vet mest junior?"'' broadcast on SVT.

Biography

He grew up in Gävle, but today lives in Nacka outside of

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. Olsson studied at Stora Sätraskoland and went to high school at Vasaskolan in Gävle. In the early 1990s, Olsson studied cultural science at Örebro University in

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. Olsson started his career at Radio Gävleborg; from there he went on to present the teen show '' Bullen'', the Sunday show '' Söndagsöppet'' and

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, all on SVT. He also presented Nyhetsmorgon at TV4. He has presented the radio shows ''Morgonpasset'', ''P4 Extra'', ''Under Solen och Bonus'', all on Sveriges Radio. Between 2005 and 2008 he presented ''Bingolotto'' at TV4. He has presented several awards shows such as ''Aftonbladets TV-pris in 2006, and the TV-award

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in 2007 along with Ann Söderlund; he presented Kristallen again in 2009, this time solo. He presented the opening of

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in 2007 from the square in

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in front of an estimated 390 million viewers around the world, via (amongst other stations)

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and the

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. Since late 2008, Olsson presents the SVT daily quiz show '' Vem vet mest?'' that is based on the British format Fifteen to One, that aired between 1988 and 2003 and 2013 to present on Channel 4. In 2010, he presented the game show ''Bubblan'' at SVT. And in 2011, he presented Melodifestivalen 2011 along with

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, the Swedish pre-selection for the

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. The same year, he presented ''Gäster med gester'' at SVT, and worked on the production of the TV3 game show '' Copycat Singers''. Since 2012, he presents the kids game show '' Wild Kids''. In February, 2015 Olsson won an Emmy Kids Award for his work with ''Wild Kids''. He participated as a celebrity dancer in Let's Dance 2025 broadcast on TV4.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Olsson, Rickard Living people 1967 births Swedish television presenters People from Gävle