Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.

Biography

Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality born in Edirne, 1969; to a family who was actually from Ilıca, Erzurum. He completed his early education in Edirne. He went to high school in İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 at Kadıköy Maarif College and Anatolian High School. He enrolled in ELT department at Gazi University

Gazi University

Gazi University is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.It was established in 1926 by Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute...

but he dropped out and decided to work on television. He has been married twice, and has 3 children. He lost his parents just after his first child was born, and got divorced from his first wife. He was 19 years old at the time. He also had a serious motorcycle accident, which his friend died but he just broke his arm.

Career

Acun Ilıcalı started his career in television with the help of one of his friends. He stated as a sport's reporter, and got promoted because of his success. After a couple of years he started to host his own parts in some different television programs. Eventually,he founded a production company called Acun Medya in 2004. With this production company, he produced and hosted many television programs and now he is very famous and successful.