▷ Tony Balardi Biography ◁ Comedian, Age, Height, Characters, Masterchef

Who is Tony Balardi?

Sergio Canseco Balardi,  better known as Tony Balardi, is a famous Mexican comedian who, thanks to his humorous talent and great funny personality, has managed to conquer the hearts of thousands of people with his characters and jokes. Tony Balardi was born on December 17, 1955 in Veracruz and in 2021 he was a MasterChef Celebrity contestant on TV Azteca.

Biography of Tony Balardi

Beginnings in the life of Tony Balardi

Sergio Canseco Balardi, better known in the artistic world as Tony Balardi , was born in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. At the time of being baptized, he added “Antonio” to his name, which he would take for his stage name: Tony Balardi. When he was 13 years old, he had the dream of becoming a famous bullfighter, however, his destiny changed when his mother, Mitzy de Alba, decided to enroll him in an arts academy, where the passion for showing off in front of the audience awoke in him. public, even if it was not facing a bull.

Tony Balardi  has referred to this moment in his life in the following way with the words: “As a child I never wanted to be an actor but a bullfighter. I got to fight until Armillita dad decided to prepare me but my mom was scared. I didn’t get mad at her because at that time we still respected her parents a lot, so she enrolled me in the Andrés Soler academy and I liked her. The problems arose when my father, Roberto Canseco, did not want me to dedicate myself to this because of drugs and homosexuality, so I decided to leave home.”

It was in this way that, living alone, Tony Balardi  reflected that show business could be a bit like bullfighting, so that just as a bullfighter risks his life in the bullring, he would do it in front of a stage: “On a stage or center night sometimes your life is in danger because there are crazy people who attack you. They put a gun on me and they were about to throw a dagger at me in full function.”

Tony Balardi ventured into the artistic world first with plays, and little by little, when different producers became aware of his talent, he rose in his artistic career, becoming increasingly well-known until he reached the medium of television where around the year of 1968 he dedicated himself to making his appearance on newsreels. Since then he has been presented with different opportunities, which he has taken advantage of, making his appearance as part of the cast of programs such as: “Nuestra casa”, “Al ritmo de Acapulco”, “Festival del Humor”, “1er maratón Cómico Musical”, “Permítame Tantito”, “Vida TV” and “Acafest”.

Trajectory and history of Tony Balardi

In this way  , we have seen Tony Balardi  appear in comedy programs for 50 years, among which stand out in a particular way those known with the titles: “Sábado Gigante”, “Vida TV”, “Hoy”, “ Sabadazo”, “MoJoe”, “Guerra de chistes” and “It’s night and I’m here”.

With the passage of time, Tony Balardi has come to have his own Musical Comedy Show, in which he makes his appearance singing, dancing and telling jokes that suit all tastes. This is how he has toured several States of the Mexican Republic, and has even crossed the borders of our country, appearing in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Houston, among many others.

As some of the most outstanding events of his long artistic career, we can highlight his participation in the International Humor Festival in Colombia in 2016, as well as his presentation at the Tico Humor Festival in the country of Costa Rica, great successes for  Tony Balardi.

However, we must not think that Tony Balardi is only dedicated to being a comedian, since he has also added to his curriculum his performance in different soap operas such as: Daughters of the Moon, My heart is yours, The well loved, True loves and How poor so rich.

Later  Tony Balardi  was a participant in the reality show known by the name of El Gran Dip, which we know is a Mexican version of Celebrity Splash. In addition, around the year 2007 he made his appearance in the television series that was known under the title of El Pantera.

Tony Balardi  is aware of everything he has achieved and the effort it has cost him; That’s why he wants to keep his legacy alive by instructing his son in the art of comedy. In addition to the fact that he has known how to adapt to the changes that come with the passing of the years, this is how he remains very active on social networks, especially on Instagram, where he continually makes posts with a sense of humor that make more than one smile. person.

In addition to this, he has come to be admired for the professionalism that he always shows, being that he can make people laugh even when he is going through intense pain. We refer to this aspect of his artistic personality, since it is our knowledge that he was giving a comedy show when they gave him the terrible news of the death of his mother. In different interviews, Tony Balardi  has expressed that despite the pain he felt, he did not stop keeping in mind his duty to the public: “They are people and mixed emotions, you give yourself more to work, you know what you are experiencing, but you cannot telling people, it would be disrespectful to people, because they went to have fun.”

Already in 2019, Tony Balardi celebrated 50 years of making the public laugh with the show called Cincuentenado, where he had actresses among his invited personalities: Alma Cero, Isabel Madow, Lorena de la Garza, Sandy Rod and Sugey Abrego. In his own words, Tony Balardi described the show as follows: “The show is very cool. It talks about the story of my life, from when I was a child to the present time. Everything I’ve experienced, but in stand up and there are jokes and there are sketches, choreographies. I’m talking about my four marriages, I’m looking for the fifth, but at this time it’s going to be difficult for me. “He also announced that he chose the city of Puebla as the venue for the program because although he is originally from Veracruz, many of his relatives live in Puebla.

Tony Balardi participating in MasterChef Celebrity

Although  Tony Balardi has a long history of success in soap operas and television programs, he is undoubtedly much more remembered by the public today after becoming a participant in Master Chef Mexico. MasterChef Celebrity  a reality show originally created by British television and later brought to Mexico by TV Azteca in which the purpose is to find the best amateur cook and chef in the entire country. In October 2015, the first season of the most successful gastronomic reality show on all Mexican television premiered, and it has even been nominated as the best reality show at the Kids Choice Awards.

In August 2021, the MasterChef Celebrity season premiered in which, unlike previous seasons, on this occasion those who would be participating in the program would be famous and Tony Balardi  was one of the participants of MasterChef Celebrity 2021 , a season that again the panel of judges were made up of  Betty Vázquez , Chef Adrián Herrera  and José Ramón Castillo ; For the first time  , Anette Michel  decided to no longer be the host for going to try her luck on Televisa soap operas and in her place Rebecca de Alba was left, while the participants who were facing  Tony Balardi were 10 competing men William Valdés, Germán Montero , José Joel , Mauricio Islas , Aristeo Cázares , Tony Balardi , David Salomón , Javier Vázquez , Paco Chacón , Jorge Aravena ; and 10 female contestants; Laura Flores , Jimena Pérez “La Choco” , Alicia Machado , Dalú , Matile Obregón, Stephanie Salas , Aida Cuevas ,  Paty Navidad , Laura Zapata and Daniela Alexis ‘ La Bebeshita ‘.

Children and wife of Tony Balardi

As far as Tony Balardi’s love life is concerned, it is our knowledge, as he himself has confessed on different occasions to the media, that his weakness is women. So he has had many partners throughout his artistic career, although he was not always lucky in love: “As a boy I didn’t have much luck with women, they made me ugly. Before they did what they wanted to me even though I gave them everything. They handled me as they pleased but if they crossed the line it was over and there was no turning back ”.

With the acquisition of fame, his luck improved, but he also matured, so that when he married for the first time he changed his way of seeing women and his role in a man’s life.

In total, he has been married four times, procreating children with only two of his wives, although he does not like to show off this, since he does not consider it a good example for his children to follow: “I do not consider myself a good example for my children because I have been married several times. I don’t expect virgins to marry but I would like them to have the necessary principles and not go out of the ordinary. At 51 years old, I feel very happy for what I have done, I just need to have a big house of my own because I have still been renting and that my children are totally happy, that they do not suffer.”

Pack of Tony Balardi

Although on social networks and the internet people search a lot for the Tony Balardi pack or photos in which he can be seen scantily clad or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Tony Balardi pack other than those photos. that the artist has published on his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is Tony Balardi’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask themselves about Tony Balardi and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Tony Balardi within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent he has and what he has done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.