Paolo Presta

Paolo Presta is an American talk show host and actor known for hosting the online talk show A Spoonful of Paolo which was the winner of a 2012 and 2022 Webby Award.

Early life Presta was born into a Catholic Italian family, one of seven siblings and the son of an Italian immigrant.

Career In 2004, talk show host Oprah Winfrey during a "Wildest Dreams" episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show got Presta, then an aspiring actor, a speaking role on the sitcom Will & Grace. Winfrey and her television crew showed up at his family's Chicago grocery store where Presta was working in response to multiple emails and letters Presta had sent Winfrey.

On March 14, 2024 at the 35th GLAAD Media Awards Presta and female impersonator Chilli Pepper presented the GLAAD Vanguard Award to Oprah Winfrey.

Winfrey appeared on a November 11, 2024, episode of A Spoonful of Presta as a guest. The episode debuted on the twentieth anniversary of the day Winfrey surprised Presta at his family's grocery store in 2004. They had lived in West Hollywood.

In 2017, Presta and Thomassie moved back to Chicago.