Rick Campanelli

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Richard Adam Matthew Campanelli (born January 5, 1970) is a Canadian television and radio personality who currently works on Breakfast Television as a live eye reporter. He is known for his work as a VJ and host on MuchMusic and for co-hosting ET Canada.

Life and career

Campanelli is a native of Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in a working class Italian-Canadian family. He is the youngest of four siblings[1][2] in a Roman Catholic family.[1][3]

Campanelli attended school in St. Catharines. He attended Brock University, earning a degree in physical education.[4]

Campanelli was introduced to the MuchMusic viewers as the winner of MuchMusic's 1994 MuchTemp contest.[5] Originally he was nicknamed "The Temp" (or, famously, "Rick the Temp").[6] Campanelli has since been labeled "The Franchise" for his long tenure and high popularity while on MuchMusic. In addition to being a video jockey, he also co-hosted Much on Demand,[7] The MuchMusic Countdown[8] and The MuchMusic Radio Countdown.[9]

Campanelli's final appearance on MuchMusic was August 26, 2005, on MuchOnDemand. He was subsequently announced as one of the reporters for ET Canada, a new Canadian licensee of Entertainment Tonight, which was launched on September 12, 2005.[10]

In early 2007, Campanelli hosted the Canada's Case Game segments on Global's Deal or No Deal Canada, during that series' first limited run.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Campanelli is involved with several charitable organizations including World Vision Canada,[11] Tuberous Sclerosis, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, McMaster Children's Hospital, and Kids Help Phone.[12] On May 27, 2009, he hosted the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative in Toronto.

In February 2016, Toronto radio station CFNY-FM announced that Campanelli would join the station as co-host with Fred Kennedy and Melanie Mariani of the station's morning show, beginning June 27.[13] Later that year, he made a cameo appearance in the music video for James Barker Band's "Just Sayin'".[14]

In July 2017, it was announced that Campanelli would depart as co-host of ET Canada after 12 years when his contract ended in summer 2017.[15] He appeared on ET Canada through August 2017.[15]

In 2021, it was announced that Campanelli would join his former MuchMusic colleague Monika Deol to co-host 90's Nostalgia, a five-city Canadian concert tour featuring such artists as Aqua and Eiffel 65. Campanelli discussed this role during a visit to the Toronto Mike'd Podcast.[16][17]

He joined Z103.5 in November 2021,[18] and was co-host of the morning show until December 2022, when he left the station.

In 2023, Campanelli competed on the first season of The Traitors Canada, where he played as a Faithful.[19] He was banished by his fellow castmates in the fifth episode.[20]

In 2024, he joined CHFI-FM in Toronto as an afternoon host.[21] In 2025 he joined Citytv's Breakfast Television as a live eye reporter, leaving the weekday shift on CHFI but retaining a Sunday morning show on the station.[22]


References

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  13. ↑ "102.1 the Edge, Toronto, Announces Rick Campanelli as Morning Show Co-Host", Broadcastermagazine.com, February 25, 2016.
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  16. ↑ "90's Nostalgia", 90snostalgia.ca. Accessed February 6, 2024.
  17. ↑ "Rick "The Temp" Campanelli: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 912", torontomike.com, September 2021.
  18. ↑ https://broadcastdialogue.com/rick-campanelli-joins-mornings-on-evanovs-z103-5/
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  21. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Rick Campanelli joins 98.1 CHFI lineup". Broadcast Dialogue, March 27, 2024.
  22. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Rick Campanelli joins Breakfast Television". Broadcast Dialogue, June 11, 2025.

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