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11 Facts About Fabrizio Frizzi

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Fabrizio Frizzi often presented a mixture of variety shows, talent shows and game shows across Italy and he was known as the Italian voice of Woody from the Toy Story franchise.

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Fabrizio Frizzi continued in the young people's afternoon slot, firstly with Tandem and later with Pane e marmellata, which he co-hosted with his first wife Rita Dalla Chiesa.

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Fabrizio Frizzi became presenter of the annual celebrity football match Partita del cuore, which raised funds for charity and scientific research, and hosted various editions of the Italian Telethon.

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Fabrizio Frizzi received international attention for dubbing the voice of Sheriff Woody, one of the main characters in Pixar's Toy Story film series into Italian, as well a car version of Woody in Cars.

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Fabrizio Frizzi reprised the role of Woody in television shorts, video games and more.

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Fabrizio Frizzi made a guest appearance in the Italian dubbed version of The Simpsons on the episode Pay Pal in which he voiced John Wilkes Booth.

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From 1999 to 2001, Fabrizio Frizzi had an acting role as Paolo Bonelli in the RAI television drama series Non lasciamoci piu.

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8.

Previously married to fellow television presenter Rita dalla Chiesa, ten years his senior, in 2014 Fabrizio Frizzi married his second wife, the nearly 24 years younger TV presenter Carlotta Mantovan, whom he had met during the 2001 auditions for Miss Italia.

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On 23 October 2017, while recording an episode of L'eredita, Fabrizio Frizzi suffered an ischemic stroke, which led him to take a break from work.

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Fabrizio Frizzi was rushed to the Sant'Andrea Hospital but it was too late to save him and he died.

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Fabrizio Frizzi's funeral, attended by thousands, was held two days later at the Basilica di Santa Maria in Montesanto located in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, commonly known as the Chiesa degli artisti, the "Church of the Artists".