Paolo Bonolis

Italian television host who made his debut in 1981 on "Tre, due, uno, contatto...," a program for children that aired on Italian national broadcaster RAI. In 1982, he moved to Italia 1 where he hosted "Bim bum bam," again a program for children. He anchored "Bim Bum Bam" until 1990 and then he hosted some variety shows like "Urka!," "Bulli & pupe," "Non è la RAI" and "Belli freschi." After that, he hosted a few prime time shows like the quiz show "Luna park", on air in the evenings. In 1996, he went back to Mediaset, where he successfully hosted "Tira & molla" and the prime time shows "Ciao Darwin" and "Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?." Beginning in the same year he also hosted on Canale 5 the satyrical news program "Striscia la notizia." He returned to RAI in 2003, when he presented "Domenica In" and, later, "Affari tuoi," a game show that in early 2004 had a lot of success. After that he presented the Festival di Sanremo 2005, the most important Italian music festival, repeating this experience in 2009. In the second part of the first decade of the 2000s he hosted, for Canale 5, programs like "Il senso della vita" and some new editions of the successful shows "Ciao Darwin" and "Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?." In 2006 he debuted in the cinemas with the film "Commediasexi." Link to Wikipedia biography