María Pía Copello

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María Pía Copello
Born
María Pía Copello Hora

(1977-01-22) 22 January 1977 (age 47)
Lima, Peru
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • actress
  • singer
  • producer
  • influencer
Spouse
Samuel Dyer Coriat
(m. 2006)
Children3

María Pía Copello Hora (born 22 January 1977) is a Peruvian television presenter, actress, singer, producer and influencer.

She achieved popularity for having been the host of the children's program María Pia & Timoteo on América Televisión along with actor Ricardo Bonilla, at the beginning and middle of the first decade of the 21st century.[1] After stopping hosting children's programs, she joined other programs, such as Esto es guerra,[2] Talento urbano and Versus de colegios.[3]

Early life[edit]

Copello is the daughter of Fernando Copello (of Italian descent) and Luisa Hora (of Japanese descent), she studied primary and secondary school at Newton School in Lima. Then, she entered the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) to study advertising and marketing, she obtained a bachelor's degree.[4]

Career[edit]

In 1993, Copello debuted on television as "cíndela" in the children's program Nubeluz.[5]

From 2000 to 2006, she hosted the children's program María Pía y Timoteo, on América Televisión, replacing Karina Rivera.[6][7] At the same time, Copello directed her own dance school for children and adolescents,[8] which included the collaboration of her younger sister, Anna Carina.[9][10] In 2008, she decided to step away from children's animation for a moment to host the reality television program for teenagers Talentourbano, broadcast by Frecuencia Latina.[11][12][13] During 2011, she returned to children's animation and hosted the television program children's 321 María Pía, broadcast by Panamericana Televisión.[7][14]

Copello decided to move away from children's entertainment, from the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013, to give way to other projects in her career.[15] She then began hosting the radio program Arriba los tacos, which is currently called Bienawatas on the Radio Corazón station. In 2015, she hosted the school competition program Versus, along with Yaco Eskenazi. Also that year, she began hosting the reality show Esto es guerra, alongside Mathías Brivio, replacing Johanna San Miguel. She remained on the program until the end of 2018. She returned to the program for short periods to briefly fill in or replace the hosts. She has also been presented as the director of the segment of the reality show La Academia, to later assume the leadership of said show again in 2022.

After the television show, Copello has a weekly program called #YaNoYa with more than one hundred and twenty videos on her YouTube channel, Pía Copello.[16] She also presented her cookbook Los secretos de la cocina de Pía Copello, winner of the Family category at the Gourmand Awards.[17][18]

Personal life[edit]

On 14 January 2006, Capello married businessman Samuel Dyer Coriat, her boyfriend since 2001, with whom she has three children, born in 2007, 2010, and 2014.[9][19]

Filmography[edit]

Television[edit]

  • Nubeluz (1993-1995)
  • Lotería Kino (1996)
  • Andrea, tiempo de amar (1997),
  • Karina y Timoteo (August 1999-February 2000)
  • El show del Chavo (August 1999-December 2000)
  • Tele amor (1999 and 2000)
  • María Pia & Timoteo/De la re (March 2000-December 2006)
  • El show de la refurinfunflay (March 2001-December 2003)
  • Talento urbano (2008)
  • 321 María Pía (2011)
  • Todos los bravos (2012)
  • Yo Soy Kids (2014)
  • Versus de colegios (2015)
  • Esto es guerra (2015-2018)
  • El origen de la lucha (2016)
  • Mande quien mande (2023-present)

Discography[edit]

  • María Pía y Timoteo (2000, CD and casette).
  • María Pía y Timoteo. De la refurinfunflay (2004, CD)
  • María Pía en una aventura cibernética (CD)
  • 321 María Pía en el Bosque Encantado (2011, CD)
  • Mujercitas (2017, CD)
  • Blanca Navidad (2020, CD)
  • ¡Que siga la fiesta! (2020, CD)[20]
  • Bailando sola (2021, CD)[21]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "María Pía y Timoteo: Así fue el primer programa tras la salida de Karina Rivera | VIDEO | ESPECTACULOS". Trome (in Spanish). 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  2. ^ ""Esto es Guerra": María Pía Copello regresó al programa para conducir junto a Johanna San Miguel [VIDEO]". El Comercio (in Spanish). 2021-04-06. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  3. ^ "Yaco Eskenazi y María Pía Copello serán los conductores de Versus de Colegios". América Televisión (in Spanish). 20 April 2015. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  4. ^ "Entrevista: María Pía Copello". Peru.com. 2000-09-26. Archived from the original on 2004-02-24. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  5. ^ "María Pía Copello: Creció la niña". Ellos & Ellas de Caretas. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  6. ^ "María Pía Copello: "Mi época en el rubro infantil todavía no ha pasado"". ElComercio.pe. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  7. ^ a b "María Pía Copello: "Yo creo que mi época en el rubro infantil todavía no ha pasado"". El Comercio Perú. 2011-03-13. Archived from the original on 2011-04-18. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  8. ^ "María Pía este fin de semana en Lima Norte". RPP. 2005-02-25. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  9. ^ a b "Musa de verano". El Comercio (Perú). 2 January 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  10. ^ "María Pía y Anna Carina Copello en búsqueda de talentos". RPP Noticias. 19 December 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  11. ^ "Talento Urbano. María Pía Copello regresa a la TV". larepublica.pe. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
  12. ^ "El desafío de María Pía Copello". Diario Correo. 10 September 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-11. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  13. ^ "María Pía Copello vuelve con Talento Urbano". Terra. 6 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  14. ^ "María Pía Copello regresó con un nuevo programa de TV". agendameperu.com. 9 January 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  15. ^ "María Pía Copello le dice adiós al mundo infantil". ElComercio.pe. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  16. ^ "Pia Copello - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  17. ^ "María Pía Copello en los Oscar de los libros de cocina - Caretas Gastronomía". Caretas (in Spanish). 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  18. ^ "María Pía gana primer puesto en 'Food Show' de los Gourmand Awards 2022: "Se lo dedico a todo el país"". elpopular.pe (in Spanish). 4 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  19. ^ "María Pía se Casa". 19 January 2006. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
  20. ^ LR, Redacción (2020-09-08). "Maria Pia Copello ocupa número 1 en tendencias de Youtube con su canción "Like"". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  21. ^ "María Pía estrena 'Bailando sola' y usuarios arremeten que es igualita a 'Colegiala' [VIDEO] | El Popular". elpopular.pe (in Spanish). 6 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-09.