Rick Campanelli

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.

Rick Campanelli
Campanelli at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Richard Adam Matthew Campanelli (1970-01-05) January 5, 1970 (age 55) St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	Brock University
Known for	MuchMusic ET Canada The Traitors Canada
Spouse	Angie Campanelli
Children	3[1]

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^[2][3] in a Roman Catholic family.^[2][4]

Campanelli attended school in St. Catharines. He attended Brock University, earning a degree in physical education.^[5]

Campanelli was introduced to the MuchMusic viewers as the winner of MuchMusic's 1994 MuchTemp contest.^[6] Originally he was nicknamed "The Temp" (or, famously, "Rick the Temp").^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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]