Riccardo Simonetti
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- Media personality
- author
Riccardo Simonetti | |
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 Simonetti in 2023 | |
| Born | 16 February 1993 |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
Riccardo Simonetti (born 16 February 1993) is a German media personality and author. He hosts the ZDFneo reality competition Glow Up – Germany’s Next Make-Up Star (since 2022)[1][2] and the WDR nostalgia series Legendär!.[3] In 2021 he founded the non-profit Riccardo Simonetti Initiative.[4]
Simonetti first became known as a blogger and media personality before appears into television in the late 2010.[5]
In 2021 WDR launched the nostalgia show Legendär!, hosted by Simonetti, revisiting popular culture of past decades.[6] In 2022 ZDFneo premiered Glow Up – Deutschlands nächster Make-up-Star, with Simonetti as host.[7][8]
His first talk show, Salon Simonetti (2022), was produced for ARD/WDR.[9][10]
Simonetti has also worked as a voice actor; in the German dub of Incredibles 2 (2018) he voiced the superhero HeLectrix.[11]