Maurizio Costanzo is an Italian

Italy

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 television host

Celebrity

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 and journalist. He is married to Maria De Filippi

Maria De Filippi

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, an Italian

Italian people

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 television host.

Biography

Costanzo was born in Rome

Rome

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.

He began his career as a journalist

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, and in the late 1970s appeared in several television

Television

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 shows, before creating his most famous show, The Maurizio Costanzo Show, currently the most important and longest-lasting talk show

Talk show

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 in Italy. Costanzo's TV style includes subtle, low-profile irony

Irony

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.

He also wrote the screenplay

Screenplay

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s for several film

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s, as well as the lyrics of an appreciated song, "Se telefonando", made famous by Italian singer Mina

Mina (singer)

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, together with Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

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's music

Music

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.

Costanzo had worked for the main TV channel of the Italian premier, Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

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, Canale 5

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, of which he was also the artistic director.

In 2010 he moved to RAI

RAI

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, presenting the talk show Bontà sua.

He is also the "communication-agent" (an aesthetical and rhetorical consultant for public appearances) of many important Italian political leaders. Costanzo was a proven member of the Propaganda 2 masonic lodge

Masonic Lodge

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 (membership number 1819).

His son Saverio

Saverio Costanzo

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is a film director.

External links

• Maurizio Costanzo's program website
• http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/inbreve/2010/08/27/visualizza_new.html_1789848495.html