“Son of” and “half-brother of”, Giovanni Castaldi bears a surname that is rather heavy to bear.
On June 10,
Olivier Ménard was the victim of a violent attack at his home, located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is Giovanni Castaldi who took over to present the show called “L’Equipe du soir”.
The young sports journalist is in regular contact with his colleague. “With Mémé, we are very close, we call each other very often. It has a special place in my professional life and in my personal life. He’s still in shock and that’s normal. But he is doing well, he is with his partner and his children. He can’t wait to get back on the air,”
he warned during a given interview Tele-Leisure.
Castaldi, a heavy surname to bear
Son of Jean-Pierre Castaldi and half-brother of Benjamin Castaldi, Giovanni often finds himself insulted on social networks.
“Some systematically refer to me by my last name. What annoys me deeply is when I receive fifty insulting messages calling me ‘pested’. We can be criticized but I preferred to be told: ‘You don’t understand anything about football, you’re rubbish’, rather than bring me back to my name. Especially since my father and my brother have nothing to do with sport or journalism, I pursued my career on my own,” points out this son of an actor and half-brother of a television host.
Giovanni Castaldi started in the sports world as a presenter on Eurosport. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a columnist on CNews, where he spoke in magazines 1 p.m. Football And 8 p.m. Football. From 2019 he appeared on TNT channel 21, with participations in
The evening team And Estelle’s Team.
