Invited on the set of Chez Jordan, Thursday January 9, 2025, Giovanni Castaldi looked back on his personal history, mentioning in particular his father Jean-Pierre Castaldi and his half-brother Benjamin Castaldi, respectively film actor and TV host.
A great actor father, a star-host half-brother… Giovanni Castaldi grew up in a famous family, to say the least, which knows the pangs of notoriety well. Son of Jean-Pierre Castaldi and his wife Corinne Champeval, the 34-year-old journalist moved into sports journalism on television, officiating on Eurosport, then L’Équipe TV and RTL, where he covers football news . And it’s not easy, being a “son of” and “brother of”, to make a name for yourself without being tirelessly compared to your elders. To the point where the thirty-year-old, ex-companion of journalist Carine Galli, wanted to cut ties with his family, from the age of 19 to 23. “I needed to do things for myself. I no longer spoke to my father, nor to my brother, a little to my mother. I needed to think about myself, to do things for myself”, he explained in the show At Jordan’sThursday January 9, 2025 on C8.
Giovanni Castaldi said “what he had to say” to his family
Despite the facilities that the notoriety of his family name brings, Giovanni Castaldi has made it a point of honor to chart his own course in the media. Not by becoming a film actor or reality TV host, like his half-brother Benjamin Castaldi, but by being, since the start of the school year in September 2024, the new special correspondent of the French football team for L’Équipe TV . “When someone says hello to you and tells you that you are ‘the brother of, the son of’, you need to exist on your own. I needed to build myself on my own, which I did. I said what I had to say to my father, my mother and my brother and everything fell into place.” he added on the set of At Jordan, refusing to repeat to the C8 host what he said to them in private at the time.
How much does Giovanni Castaldi earn at L’Equipe TV? He responds
Because he readily admits it himself: Giovanni Castaldi would have become “a rot” if he had benefited from the family inheritance without ever achieving anything professionally. “You have to know how to be self-critical. I needed to go far in this thing [la rupture familiale] and do stuff on my own. […] You can’t be proud of yourself when you rely on a name, without accomplishing anything for yourself.” he concluded on the subject in front of Jordan de Luxe. The opportunity for the host to ask (insistently) how much he earns from his career as a sports columnist on L’Équipe TV: “A little less” of 5,000 euros per month, a comfortable salary which remains light years away from Benjamin Castaldi’s heyday on TF1 in the 2000s.
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