An exceptional career and a discreet private life

Gerry Scotti invited to Very true in today’s episode, Sunday October 6. The appointment is on Canale5. Among the guests, also the most beloved entertainer of Italians.

Gerry Scotti who is he: family and career

Gerry Scotti, whose real name is Virginio Scotti, was born in Camporinaldo in the province of Pavia on August 7, 1956 (he is 66 years old). His father, Mario, was a newspaper worker, while his mother was a housewife. The Scotti family then moved to Milan. Gerry attended traditional high school, then enrolled in law, without however completing his studies. the career of Gerry starts on the radio. He started at Radio Hinterland Milano2, then moved to Radio Milano International at the end of the 1970s. It was in 1982 that Gerry arrived at Radio Deejay after being called by Claudio Cecchetto: it was thanks to this that he also landed on television with DeeJay Television. From that moment on, the doors of the show opened for him. Gerry has always hosted on Mediaset: since his debut in 1983 on Italia1 he has not stopped. Festivalbar, Passaparola, Il Quizzone, Striscia la notizia, La sai l’ultima?, Chi vuol essere milionario, la Corrida, Paperissima, Lo Show dei record, Io Canto, Caduta Libera and The Wall, are just some of the programs hits that he hosted.

Private life: ex-wife, partner and son

Gerry Scotti, if his career is in the spotlight, his private life is different. Loving his private life, we know about him that in 1991 he married Patrizia Grossowhich made him father of Edoardo, born in 1992. Since 2011, he has been linked to the architect Gabriella Perino. In 2020 and 2023 he became a grandfather, since his son Edoardo had two children.

Edoardo Scotti: who is Gerry’s son?

Edoardo Scotti is the son of Gerry Scotti born from the presenter’s marriage to Patrizia Grosso. Edoardo was born on March 10, 1992, he is under the sign of Pisces and today he is 30 years old. Since he was little, he dreamed of becoming a director in Hollywood, partly following in his father’s footsteps, but preferring to stay on the other side of the camera. He moved to Los Angeles and studied to become a director, traveling around the world and in 2011 working behind the scenes of one of his father’s shows: “Lo show dei record”. He also became a special correspondent, producing some reports from around the world in 2015 and continued his career as a director at Mediaset, Rai and Sky. He had some small satisfactions as an assistant in the production of “Cucine da incubo”, but his dream, not yet achieved, remains Hollywood. Edoardo Scotti is married to Ginevra Piola, a journalist who has worked at Mediaset since 2018. The two met in the television studios and it was love at first sight. In 2021 their first daughter Virginia was born, which made Gerry Scotti a grandfather for the first time and on January 12, 2023 their second child, Pietro, was born. Edoardo is very reserved and also on his Instagram profile @edoscotti, followed by more than 12,000 people, he shares some artistic works and many photos of his wife.

The disease

In 2020, Gerry Scotti was affected by Covid. Difficult times for him, which he told Verissimo. It was 2020 when “Uncle Gerry” was infected with the virus. These were very difficult days for the Mediaset presenter. Scotti was taken to the hospital. His health conditions were very precarious: “I had all the values ​​out of order – he told Toffanin – From the liver to the kidneys to the pancreas”. But he pulled through and was released from the hospital. The host has said, in the past, that one of the things that helped him overcome these terrible times was the birth of his granddaughter Virginia, daughter of Edoardo, born from the love between Gerry and Patrizia Grosso, his ex-wife.

The pain of losing your parents

One of the most difficult moments in Gerry Scotti’s life was when he became an orphan: “My mother and father both died in one day (in different years, editor’s note), without warning, without illness, without give time to worry or figure out what to do. – he told Silvia Toffanin – My mother was 67 years old, she was very young. My father left four years later. I greeted them both the night before and the next day they were gone. There you discover that you are a marble in the abacus: don’t try to make calculations with life, because suddenly someone comes along, shakes the abacus and you are no longer a person.

Curiosities: from nickname to Instagram profile

Few people know that he participated in Festivalbar under a double role: in 1986 as a singer, then, once success was achieved, as a presenter. Passionate about wine, since 2017 he has been a partner in the wine company Giorgi Wines. THE his real name is Virginio, uncle’s name. In middle school, his classmates made fun of him by calling him Gerry, and since then he decided to adopt that name, although at first on the radio he called himself Gary. He has many nicknames, including Uncle Gerry and Doctor Scotti. He was born in his country house, on the kitchen table. Her mother was indeed in pain and a midwife helped her give birth. He bought the house from his parents: «the most important gesture I have made in my life“, he told Maurizio Costanzo’s L’Intervista. On his Instagram profile @gerryscotti, which has almost 1 million followers, he publishes photos of both his private life and his career.