Maurizio Costanzo he didn't make it. The historic host of Italian television, creator of characters and talk shows, passed away in his home in Rome today, February 24.
Maurizio Costanzo, the career
Maurizio Costanzo was born in Rome on August 28, 1938, from a family originally from Ortona. Italian journalist, television host, radio host and screenwriter, he started with a diploma in accounting. His career as a journalist began in 1956.
It was 1963 when he made his television debut with Songs and clouds. Three years later he will collaborate on the famous song by Mina If phoning as co-author. In this role he also created the character of Fracchia. 1970 is the year on the radio with Good afternoon.
The Seventies marked a turning point in Costanzo's career, as he hosted and/or created a series of talk shows – a format that was almost unknown in Italy at the time – with the program Goodness They of 1976. His most famous work in this sense is the Maurizio Costanzo Show, live from 1982 to today.
In 1999 he became president of Mediatrade, society of Mediaset who manages the fiction. For many years he was also the artistic director of Channel 5. In the 2000s Costanzo divided his time between theatre and TV.
Few people know that over the years Costanzo was a university professor at Wisdom di Rome andNiccolò Cusano telematic university. Among his various activities, Costanzo had also created an online communication agency already in the 2021s. With this in mind, he also followed the communication of the Roma football team between 2022 and XNUMX.
Private life
Costanzo has married several times and had several relationships. His first marriage was in 1963, with the photojournalist Lori Sammartino. The marriage fails. Costanzo will marry 10 years later with Flaminia Morandi, journalist. From this marriage two children were born children, Camilla and Saverio.
In 1978 Costanzo had a relationship with the actress Simona IzzoThe two lived together from 1983 to 1986. In 1989 Costanzo married Marta Flavi, but this marriage is not going well either.
In 1995 Costanzo marries Maria DeFilippi, whose marriage continued until its last day. Only in 2022 did Costanzo admit to having also had an affair with the actress Giovanna ralli when he was young, probably in the 1960s.
Maurizio Costanzo, famous quotes
“I miss everything about Giorgio Gaber. In particular, since he started to feel ill, I miss his great irony. […] I have always appreciated his being a solitary walker, someone who was out of the ordinary. Someone who didn't need to belong to feel alive”.
“We were part of a group, Enrico, Italo Terzoli, Marcello Marchesi and I. We had many ideas to work on. At the base of everything there was a great fun, which was not only knowing how to laugh at things, but knowing how to filter them with irony”.
“It's paradoxical but animals are light years ahead of us when it comes to emotional relationships.
Humans are much more boring than animals. An animal's reaction is never as predictable as a human's."
“The strategy of indifference is part of the cat's indolence. After all, it is said: indifference hurts more. The cat has taken this saying literally, in fact, when faced with a dog that growls and shows its teeth in cases of hostility, the cat looks at you with contempt and goes away. As if to say 'I don't even waste myself'”.
“One evening we went to a restaurant that seemed discreet, but was actually very popular. There were Gaber, Paolo Villaggio, Enzo Jannacci, Umberto Simonetta, myself and someone else. A couple of tables nearby, other customers began to chat, pointing at us, trying to find a way to start a conversation. Gaber suddenly turned around and said to them harshly: 'We don't want to make common cause!'. An official defense, but necessary nonetheless”.
