Alessandro Cattelan celebrates a more-than-20-year TV career. From his TV debut, alongside his daily live radio experience, he has been at the helm of major large-scale international shows in which he has interviewed some of the world’s biggest stars. He is the creator and host of late and prime-time entertainment shows and new formats, and has also presented the Italian version of The X Factor, for 10 years.
In 2024 he hosted the talent show Sanremo Giovani and in February 2025 hosted the finale of the Sanremo Festival alongside with the artistic director Carlo Conti and from 11th to 14th February he was the host of the Dopofestival.
In 2022 he was one of the hosts, together with Laura Pausini and Mika, for the Eurovision Song Contest, one of the world’s most important TV shows, broadcasted in 41 countries and with an audience of 200 million viewers. Starting from September 2022 he’s currently hosting his own late show Stasera c’è Cattelan (Rai2) that includes celebrity guest interviews, monologues, sketches and music performance. In 2024 he was also the host of Da Vicino Nessuno è Normale (Rai2), prime time brand new show on Italian vices and peculiarities.
In September 2023 he made his debuts on theatre stages, touring in Italian with his own one-man-show Salutava sempre – La spettacolare fine di Alessandro Cattelan, an invitation to Alessandro’s funeral party, the starting point for sarcastic and ironic considerations about death – the only moment you are completely sincere and free from rhetoric.
In autumn 2025, Alessandro will return to the Italian theaters with the show Benvenuto nell’AI, in which he will reflect upon the pros and cons of advanced technology nowadays.
Alessandro is creator, one of the authors and host of One simple question, a 6-episode docu-show that made its debut on Netflix on March 2022 and is available in 190 countries. A journey in pursuit, along with his guests, to understand why it’s so tough to find an answer to a question, seemingly simple, from Alessandro daughter, Nina: “Daddy, how do you find happiness?”.
Alessandro Cattelan was born in Tortona (1980) and began his broadcasting career as a presenter at Play.it (music TV show – All Music Channel), Music Zone (Disney Channel) and Ziggie (popular TV show for kids – Italia 1/Mediaset). After a short while, he began working as a MTV VJ and presenter, he hosted talk shows as Most Wanted (2004) and, the following year, Viva Las Vegas, a show inspired by the on-the-road-travel culture. In 2006 and 2007 he was also reporter in the weekly entertaining-satirical show Le Iene (Italia 1/Mediaset). While on MTV he hosted (2005-2008) Total Request Live (TRL) a true reference and for younger generations, a daily show aired live from Milan that gave Alessandro the opportunity to interview the biggest national and international stars. Alessandro collaboration with MTV went on with Lazarus: a on-the-road show, based on an idea by Alessandro himself, intended to trace the footsteps of the biggest pop icons, searching the connection between premature death and eternal fame through a journey across America.
From 2009 to 2011 he was part of the cast in Quelli che il calcio (a weekly sport and entertainment program on Rai2).
Moreover, from 2011 to 2020, he had been the host of the Italian edition of XFactor, the most famous musical talent show. After 10 wonderful seasons Alessandro decided to leave the show with a touching and surprising monologue during the final live show.
As an actor he had a leading role in Ogni maledetto Natale (2014), a successful Christmas movie. He also dubbed Chuck in both Angry Birds movies and Max in Pets for Italian territory.
Alessandro Cattelan has always played football and in 2008 he actually made his debut in Champions League with La fiorita (San Marino Club) during a qualification match.
From 2014 to 2020 Alessandro also hosted his own show: E Poi C’è Cattelan (SkyUno): a late-night talk show, during the seven seasons he interviewed the most important international and national stars.
September 2021, Alessandro hosted a two-episodes prime time show Da Grande on Rai1, a one-man show with a great number of celebrity guests.
During his career Alessandro also wrote three successful novels and on Christmas 2020 published Emma Libera Tutti, a children book written together with his daughter Nina , followed next year by Emma detective, both with a charity purpose, and a third chapter is much awaited this year.
Since 2013 he is the host of Catteland, a Monday to Friday radio show on Radio Deejay.
