Rickard Olsson-Essé, (born 7 February 1967 in
Gävle) is a Swedish television and radio presenter. He presented ''
Bingolotto
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'' between 2005 and 2008 and since 2008 he presents the quiz show ''"
Vem vet mest?" and "
Vem vet mest junior?"'' broadcast on
SVT.
Biography
He grew up in Gävle, but today lives in Nacka outside of
Stockholm. 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
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.
Olsson started his career at Radio Gävleborg; from there he went on to present the teen show ''
Bullen'', the Sunday show ''
Söndagsöppet'' and
Melodifestivalen, all on SVT.
He also presented Nyhetsmorgon at TV4.
He has presented the radio shows ''Morgonpasset'', ''P4 Extra'', ''Under Solen och Bonus'', all on Sveriges Radio. Between 2005 and 2008 he presented ''Bingolotto'' at
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.
He has presented several awards shows such as ''Aftonbladets TV-pris in 2006, and the TV-award
Kristallen
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The trophy
The award trophy, created by Mårten Cla ...
in 2007 along with Ann Söderlund; he presented Kristallen again in 2009, this time solo.
He presented the opening of
Solheim Cup
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in 2007 from the square in
Halmstad in front of an estimated 390 million viewers around the world, via (amongst other stations)
CNN International
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and the
Golf Channel
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.
Since late 2008, Olsson presents the SVT daily quiz show ''
Vem vet mest?'' that is based on the British format
Fifteen to One
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, that aired between 1988 and 2003 and 2013 to present on Channel 4. In 2010, he presented the game show ''Bubblan'' at SVT.
And in 2011, he presented
Melodifestivalen 2011 along with
Marie Serneholt, the Swedish pre-selection for the
Eurovision Song Contest. The same year, he presented ''Gäster med gester'' at SVT, and worked on the production of the
TV3 game show ''
Copycat Singers''. Since 2012, he presents the kids game show ''
Wild Kids''.
In February, 2015 Olsson won an Emmy Kids Award for his work with ''Wild Kids''.
References
External links
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Living people
1967 births
Swedish television hosts
People from Gävle