Jorge Rial

Who is Jorge Rial?

Jorge Ricardo Rial is an Argentine TV host, broadcaster and businessman.

Rial started working in newspaper media in the early 1980s and he eventually starred in the comic domestic movie Los Extermineitors. He then got involved in TV media as a reporter of TV programme Indiscreciones hosted by Lucho Avilés in 1990s, but a later acrimony between the latter and Rial made him to abandon the staff.

Jorge Rial hosted gossip-related TV programmes El Periscopio, Paparazzi, Paf!. His programme Intrusos en el espectáculo is now broadcast on Argentina's América 2. He was the director of contents of América 2 during 2002, but later replaced, and he seems to be focused on TV media and his gossip-related "Paparazzi" magazine. Since January 2007 he is also the host of the Local version of Big Brother "Gran Hermano" On Argentina's largest Broadcaster Telefe.

He wrote the book Polvo de estrellas featuring the lives of celebrities and politicians involved in farándula, and another book called "El intruso" regarding the same subject.

During the late 2009 early 2010 season he was also the main character of Angel y Demonio a theatre play, awarded with the Estrellas de Mar award in its category.