Rickard Olsson

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Rickard Olsson
Rickard Olsson
Born (1967-02-07) 7 February 1967 (age 57)
Gävle, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)radio and television presenter

Rickard Olsson-Essé, (born 7 February 1967 in Gävle) is a Swedish television and radio presenter. He presented Bingolotto between 2005 and 2008 and since 2008 he presents the quiz show "Vem vet mest?" and "Vem vet mest junior?" broadcast on SVT.[1]

Biography

He grew up in Gävle, but today lives in Nacka outside of Stockholm.[2] Olsson studied at Stora Sätraskoland and went to high school at Vasaskolan in Gävle. In the early 1990s, Olsson studied cultural science at Örebro University in Örebro.[3]

Olsson started his career at Radio Gävleborg; from there he went on to present the teen show

TV4.[5]

He has presented several awards shows such as Aftonbladet's TV-pris in 2006, and the TV-award Kristallen in 2007 along with Ann Söderlund; he presented Kristallen again in 2009, this time solo.[4] He presented the opening of Solheim Cup in 2007 from the square in Halmstad in front of an estimated 390 million viewers around the world, via (amongst other stations) CNN International and the Golf Channel.[6]

Since late 2008, Olsson presents the SVT daily quiz show

TV3 game show Copycat Singers.[9] Since 2012, he presents the kids game show Wild Kids.[10] In February, 2015 Olsson won an Emmy Kids Award for his work with Wild Kids.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Det vore falskt om jag sa förlåt". Aftonbladet. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Richard Olsson förklarade kärleken till sambon – i direktsändning". Expressen. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Rickard Olsson Årets alumn 2011". oru.se. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Boka Rickard Olsson hos Artistguiden!". Artistguiden. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Rickard Olsson lämnar "Bingolotto"". Expressen. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Radiogalan – Rickard Olsson". Radiogalan. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  7. ^ Magnus Carlsson (18 January 2013). "Tionde säsongen för Vem vet mest". Göteborgs-Posten. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Rickard Olsson och Marie Serneholt leder Melodifestivalen 2011". Expressen. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Rickard Olsson". TalarPoolen. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  10. ^ a b "Emmy-vinst för "Wild kids"". Aftonbladet. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  11. ^ "Emmy till SVT:s Wild kids". svt.se. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

External links

Media related to Rickard Olsson at Wikimedia Commons

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