Acun Ilıcalı (born 29 May 1969 in Edirne) is a Turkish television personality and producer. He is also the founder and VP of "Acun Medya" and also the owner of Turkish Tv channel TV8.

Biography

Acun Ilıcalı was born in May 29, 1969 in Edirne to a family, which originated from Ilıca, Erzurum. He completed his basic education in Edirne. He went to high school in İstanbul at Kadıköy Maarif College and Anatolian High School. He enrolled in Istanbul University but he dropped out and started working at an early age.

Ilıcalı started his business endeavours by founding a small clothing shop on Bağdat Caddesi. Things did turn out as he expected, so at the age of 21, the shop went bankrupt. After that disappointing first experience, he started working as a reporter at Show TV. After working several years there, Ilıcalı created his production company in 2004 and his company became one of the most successful companies of Turkey. In late 2013, he expanded his investments by acquiring television channel TV8.

Ilıcalı has been married twice, and has four children. He lost his parents just after his first child Banu was born, and got divorced from his first wife. During the trial of his divorce with his second wife due to his alleged infidelity, his wealth was revealed to be around 50 million Turkish Lira which was equivalent to 25 million Euros at the time.
Later he reconciled with his wife and the divorce was stopped. He has been married to Zeynep Ilıcali since 2003 and they have two daughters named Leyla and Yasemin. They divorced in 2013. In late 2013, he had his fourth child Melisa with his girlfriend Hande Subaşı.