Giovanni Dupleint
Ecuadorian TV personality (born 1970)
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Giovanni Jaramillo Lino (born 7 August 1970),[1] better known as Giovanni Dupleint, is an Ecuadoran television presenter and human rights activist.[2][3]
Biography
Dupleint was born in Guayaquil,[4] He started in the public life from a young age as a model and in 1999 ventured into radio. He reached fame on national television with his participation for more than four years as a panelist for the program Buenos muchachos,[2] an adaptation of the Argentine program Televisión registrada.[5]
Subsequently participating as a panelist or director in television programs like Vamos con todo, in which he remained from 2007 to 2012,[6] Faranduleros and Intrusos.[4][7] He also worked in the newspapers Hoy and El Telégrafo.[2] In 2009 he was named "revealed character" for the LGBT foundation Famivida,[2] given that Dupleint is openly bisexual.[3][4]
He dabbled in politics in 2012 after announcing that he would launch his candidacy for the National Assembly for the Patriotic Society Party, of ex-president Lucio Gutiérrez, in order to be a candidate for vice president in the future.[6] However, months later he announced that he had given up the candidacy and accused ex-president Gutiérrez of having asked for economic resources in order to be allowed to campaign.[8]
During his time as a presenter on Vamos con todo, Dupleint was considered one of the more controversial figures on Ecuadoran television for his conflicts with other figures of local show business.[2][3] In 2010 he caused controversy after issuing affirmations that were considered racist during the live program, saying: "!The Afro-Ecuadorians either serve to sell cocadas or serve as footballers".[9]