Assi Azar

Assi Azar was born in 1979 in Holon

Assi Azar was born in Holon in 1979. His mother is of Bukharan descent and his father of Yemenite descent. He studied film at Ironi Alon high school in Holon and served in the IDF at a Military Police training base.

He began on the online show KIK and in 2004 joined the youth show Exit as a co-host chosen by viewers. From December 2008 he co-hosted Big Brother with Erez Tal for 9 seasons, leaving in 2015. Since 2013 he has hosted The Next Star, from 2014 with Rotem Sela, and in 2019 he co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.

Azar wrote and created Beauty and the Baker, which first aired in November 2013 and was based on his youth in Holon. He also created and wrote the youth series Metukim, which premiered on 29 January 2024. Since late 2013 he has hosted the morning show on Radio Tel Aviv.

He came out as gay in April 2005 and has been active for LGBT rights in Israel. In 2010 he presented a short documentary about his own coming out, and Out magazine included him in a 2009 list of 100 influential LGBT people. In 2022 an actor alleged that Azar had harassed him, which Azar denied, and the police complaint was closed without investigation.

In 2016 he married Spanish architect Albert Escolà Benet in Barcelona. Their daughter was born in March 2022 and their son in April 2024. They live in Tel Aviv.