Laura Bozzo
| Laura Bozzo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Laura Cecilia Bozzo Rotondo August 19, 1951 Callao, Peru |
| Occupation | Talk show host, lawyer |
| Years active | 1990-2017 |
Laura Cecilia Bozzo Rotondo (born August 19, 1951) is a Peruvian talk show hostess, best known for her Spanish-language talk show Laura that is being broadcast in the United States on the Univision television network. Show was aired in Miami,Florida. Bozzo has hosted other talk shows under her name, including Laura en América, back in the 1990s to early 2000s. Her talk shows have been compared to the American English-language Jerry Springer Show due to the fights that regularly occur as well as the sensitive subject matter routinely discussed. In 2008, a scandal erupted when it was discovered by the Peruvian press, led by important figures such as Jaime Bayly, that some of the shows provided by Laura Bozzo were fake and therefore did not show the true society of Peru.
Bozzo was born in Callao, Peru to engineer Miguel Bozzo Chirichignio and Victoria Luisa Rotondo Mendoza, both of Italian, Spanish and Quechua descent; she holds the Italian citizenship. She studied law in Lima, Peru, receiving degrees in law and political science there and teaching classes within such fields in various universities. In 1987, she became the appointed officer of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura and organized competitions to promote the conservation of the cultural heritage of Peru. In 1992, she became the regidora (alderman) of metropolitan Lima.
She began in television in 1994 with Las mujeres tienen la palabra a feminist cutting program in RBC Televisión. In 1997, Laura Bozzo went to Panamericana Televisión and assumes the conduct of the reality show Intimidades. A year later, Bozzo is hired by América Televisión and launches Laura en América, this program was very popular in Peru.
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