Who is Maurizio Costanzo: Biography, Career and Maria De Filippi

Maurizio Costanzo began his career as Journalist in 1956 and made his debut in the entertainment world in 1982 with his famous and long-lived Maurizio Costanzo Show. As a journalist he has interviewed many famous people in amusing fields, such as Giovanni Falcone and Totò. He is currently a radio and television host and author but he also holds the chair of professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the La Sapienza University of Rome.

Who is Maurizio Costanzo?

• First name: Maurizio Costanzo
• Date of birth: August 28, 1938
• Age: 82 years old
• Zodiac sign: Virgin
• Birth place: Rome
• Profession: Journalist, TV and radio host and author
• Weight: 109 kg
• Height: 164 cm
• Tattoos: nobody
• Official Instagram: For the moment he does not have an official Instagram profile
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Biography

Maurizio Costanzo was born from his father Ugo, of Abruzzese origin who worked at the Ministry of Transport and from his mother Jole, a housewife, on August 28, 1938 in Rome. Maurizio graduated from Classical Lyceum Julius Caesar and decides not to continue his studies at the university but to undertake the career as a journalist. He soon began writing for some newspapers. At just 18 years old writes for the Roman newspaper Paese Sera, the following year for the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa but the big opportunity comes with the engagement in the editorial office of the magazine Tv Smiles and Songs. In 1960 it becomes Chief Editor of another famous weekly: Grace. At the same time it becomes author of some radio programs and, in order not to miss anything, he writes one of the most beautiful and famous songs of Mina: If phoning.

Maurizio Costanzo from Paolo Bonolis’ Instagram profile

Work and Career

Maurizio Costanzo made his debut in the world of entertainment with a program created entirely by him: the Maurizio Costanzo Show. From “TV media lounge“, As it was called by the Parioli Theater, many influential personalities from different worlds pass by, such as that of politics, sport, culture and entertainment. His show is one of the programs more long-lived and still active today that there is. Journalist, host and author of radio and television programs, Maurizio founded a production house in the 1980s: the Fortuna Audiovisual. You therefore began to produce several television programs including the sitcom Horace, which sees him as protagonist together with his partner of the time Simona Izzo. 1985 is the year of Happy Sunday, a program that is very successful for both i audience record both for the etoregeity of which the format is composed. In fact, we see alternating small sitcoms, interviews, plays and games made by Maurizio himself. There Sunday broadcast, is conducted by Maurizio with some interruptions for several years and launches several characters such as Paola Barale and Laura Freddie etc. One of his most trusted collaborators and co-authors is the journalist and host Pierluigi Diaco.

1990s and 2000s: other projects besides TV

Maurizio Costanzo’s career between the 90s and 200s is very rich and diverse. In 1996, although he never earned a bachelor’s degree, he was entrusted with the chair at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Rome, La Sapienza. In 1999 it becomes director of Canale 5 and president of Mediatre, the company in the hands of Mediaset that produces the television dramas broadcast on the network. Also at the end of the 90s he continued his work as a journalist, collaborating with newspapers such as The Corriere della Sera, Il Messaggero, La Stampa. He also gets the role of artistic director of the Brancaccio Theater in Rome. In 2000 he started the Maurizio Costanzo Communication, a very innovative company that takes care of supporting the communication of public figures. Finally he also founded the VeroTV channel, where we see characters such as chef Roberto Valbuzzi making their debut.

Good afternoon, the radio and the interview

Maurizio Costanzo in 2006 starts conducting the afternoon program Good afternoon, leaving the direction of Buona Domenica. However, the new program is not as successful as the first, so Maurizio decides to return to the radio, in particular a Rai Radio 1 and then on RTL 102.5, in the program Radio Costanzo Show. 2010 is the year that sees him arrive in Rai by conducting programs such as His goodness, My Italy And Night has fallen on Rai 1. He returns to Mediaset only in 2015 with a quartet of specials from Maurizio Costanzo Show. Here he founded a new program of interviews with personalities known to the general public, called precisely The interview. The show is shot entirely in a small studio in which there are only large screens. The transmission is so successful that it is renewed for the following seasons, and hosting guests such as Giorgia Meloni and many other politicians.

Maurizio Costanzo private life

Maurizio Costanzo gets married with the presenter Maria De Filippi on August 28, 1995, after five years of engagement. The couple has a son up for adoption: Gabriele Costanzo. The marriage with Maria De Filippo, however, was not the only one, in fact in Maurizio’s life there were other weddings: in 1963 he married Lori Sammartino and from 1973 to 1984 with the journalist Flaminia Morandi with whom Maurizio also had two children: Camilla and Saverio. Thanks to them today Maurizio is also a grandfather. After these two separations there was also the coexistence with the director Simona Izzo and then it was the turn of the third marriage, which lasted only a year, with Marta Flavi.

Maurizio Costanzo at the beginning of the 90s was very involved in the fight against the mafia. He was a great friend of Giovanni Falcone, who he had also had the pleasure of interviewing and during an episode of the Maurizio Costanzo Show he had burned a T-shirt that read “Mafia made in Italy“. It was for these reasons that the Cosa Nostra organized it the attack in via Fauro, a few steps from the Parioli Theater. Maurizio had just left the theater but the car bomb filled with 100kg of TNT exploded late and the wall of a school managed to protect the journalist and then-partner Maria De Filippi. Luckily the attack did not cause casualties but the life of both conductors upset the evening doubt, so much so that from that moment Maurizio Costanzo lives, still today, under guard.

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