Marko Reikop
Marko Reikop | |
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 Marko Reikop in 2007 | |
| Born | 19 June 1969 Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Television host |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Employer | Estonian Public Broadcasting |
| Television | Ringvaade |
Marko Reikop (born 19 June 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian TV host.[1]
He graduated from the Tallinn University on bibliography and is employed by radio and TV channels of the Estonian Public Broadcasting since 1991.
He has presented the Estonian national finals for Eurovision Song Contest and made a live commentary for the event. From 2009 and on, he presents the daily talk show Ringvaade together with Anu Välba (along with Grete Lõbu since autumn of 2013).
In 2018, he was given Fifth Class of the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia.[2]
Reikop is openly gay.[3][4] In September 2020, Reikop was the subject, along with Ringvaade cohost Grete Lõbu, of an anti-gay slur by Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) MP and Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) board representative Urmas Reitelmann in a social media post, which caused a backlash by ERR supervisory board member Rein Veidemann and ERR board chair Erik Roose, with Veidemann calling for Reitelmann's removal from the board. Reikop later stated that he considered filing a court action suit against Reitelmann.[5]
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- 1969 births
- Living people
- Estonian male journalists
- Estonian television presenters
- Estonian television personalities
- Estonian radio personalities
- Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Tallinn University alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class
- Estonian gay men
- Estonian LGBTQ broadcasters
- Estonian LGBTQ journalists
- Gay journalists
- 20th-century Estonian LGBTQ people
- 20th-century Estonian people
- 21st-century Estonian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Estonian people
- 21st-century Estonian writers
- 20th-century Estonian writers