Istvan Vago ( Hungarian. Vágó István ; born February 14, 1949, Budapest , Hungary ) is a Hungarian television presenter and political activist [2] . He is considered the patriarch of the Hungarian intellectual game shows, best known as the presenter of the program “ Legyen ön is Milliomos! "( Become a Millionaire! ) - A Local Version of the Game Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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Biography
Vago was born and raised in Budapest in the family of a Catholic gymnasium teacher György Vago and Veronika Wadash, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 with his family due to Jewish descent; her father, brother and other relatives died in a concentration camp. According to his initial profession, Istvan Vago was a chemist, engineer of chemical and pharmacological production, then he joined the foreign trade company MEDIMPEX.
I got on television in 1976 thanks to the program "Wanted Reporter", after the final of which the TV presenter Tamas Vitrai invited him to conduct a quiz. Starting his television career, Vago wanted to launch a political show, but in those conditions he failed to realize his idea, and he remained the host of various game shows. Thanks to them, he became one of the most popular people on Hungarian television, gaining a reputation as a “Quiz Professor” for his erudition.
In 1987-1997 he was the co-host of the program, designed to improve literacy and language skills. From 2000 to 2007, he was the leading Hungarian adaptation of the quiz “Who wants to become a millionaire?” However, returning to the program in 2008 after a short break, the second restart was less successful, and the third was already led by another presenter - Sandor Fridericus.
Vago worked for 22 years on the Hungarian State Television ( MTV) , then from 1997 he switched to TV2, and from 2000 to RTL Klub. Since 2009, he was again the host of TV2, and then on Story4, where he had his own game called Átvágó , canceled after the first season. After the failure of the program he invented, he announced the end of his career as a TV presenter.
Politics and Views
Vago is an atheist and a skeptic . Since 1992, he was a member of the organization for the promotion of rational thinking and the fight against pseudoscience called the Society for Respecting Facts ( Tényeket Tisztelők Társasága ) and its deputy chairman Janos Sentagotai . He left the organization in 2005, finding it insufficiently effective, in 2006 joined the Hungarian Society of Skeptics, was its president. In 2011, he participated in the worldwide campaign against homeopathy 10:23.
In Hungarian politics, Vago strongly supports the left , including liberals like former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and the Alliance of Free Democrats . He took part in anti-fascist [3] demonstrations. In 2008 he was awarded the Miklos Radnoti anti-racist prize.
In the 2014 local elections, he was a candidate from the Democratic Coalition (Gyurcsany Party), the Hungarian Socialist Party , Együtt - PM and the European Federalists. In January 2015, he joined the Democratic Coalition, where he led the working group on working with the media. As a member of the party’s national leadership, in September 2016 he became a representative of the DC in local government of the XII district of Budapest, replacing Sabolcha Kereyk-Barchi who left the party.
Hobbies
Vago has been playing the guitar since his teens and acts as the bass player of the Hungarian band Favágók ("Lumberjacks"). He is also a big fan of The Beatles and Paul McCartney .
Vago - polyglot: speaks at least 4 languages (English, French, German, Spanish), speaks a little Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish, writes in Arabic, Turkish and Hindi, was mistaken for Finnish, Japanese and Chinese [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ István Vágó . linkedin.com. Date of treatment January 27, 2010.
- ↑ A fasizmus ellen
- ↑ Vágó István, a nyelvzseni | NLCafé
Links
- Vago, Istvan on the Internet Movie Database