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Ioanna Maleskou (Ιωάννα Μαλέσκου; born February 14, 1989) is a Greek tv hostess, television personality, model and ex primary school teacher. She started her television hosting career in 2014 on local media networks of Crete and in 2016 she gained fame hosting her own daytime talk show Kalo Mesimeri. In 2020 she signed a contract with one of the biggest television networks in Greece, Skai TV, where she started hosting daytime talk show Love It.

Early life
Maleskou was born in Preveza a city of northwestern Greece. Her father Dimitris is a lawyer with his own office in Preveza. She has an older sister Eleni and an older brother Alexandros, also a lawyer. After graduating from school, in her 18 years, she installed in Thessaloniki started studying in Pedagogical Department of Elementary Education in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in order to become a school teacher.

In 2012, having finished with her studies, she installed in Crete where she started working as a primary school teacher in a primary school at a small village of the island. In 2013 she decided to take part in the annual Cretean Beauty Pageant. She competed for the title of Miss Crete 2013, and was the second runner-up. After her participation to the beauty contest she started working as a model apart from her teaching career.

Career
During her television apparences and interviews after her participation to the Cretean Beauty Pageant she was suggested by the local television network of Crete TV Creta to start her own tv show to its daytime program. On September of 2014 she started hosting the show My Forma, which was about fitness and health advices, for one season.

In 2015 she signed for a second season to TV Creta for a new talk show titled Pano stin Ora (Just in Time) for the Weekend daytime program. On summer of 2016 she decided to sign her first big contract with the biggest local television network of Crete CreteTV. There she took over to host the longest running daytime talk show Kalo Mesimeri (Good Afternoon) which was running for 20 years ahead from September of 2016. For the first two years she was hosting the show with the journalist Stelios Zervos as a tv duo but from September of 2018 she took over hosting the show alone. At the same period she stopped her career as a school teacher and decided to focus on television hosting only. In 2017, and the following year, she hosted the Cretean Beauty Pageant four years after her own participation. In early 2019 she gained interest of the major television media of Greece with some of the parts of her show. In late 2019, while her show was on by CreteTV, she was suggested by the major television network Skai TV to host the third season of the fashion reality show My Style Rocks but she refused. On February of 2020 the same network suggested her to host the new upcoming season of Big Brother but she refused for the second time. After finishing her fourth season on Kalo Mesimeri (Good Afternoon) in July of 2020 she decided to conclude her cooperation with CreteTV and signed with Skai TV changing the place of residence and moving to Athens.

From August of 2020 she had a major role on the daytime program of Skai TV hosting the talk show Love It from Monday to Friday for two season until July of 2022. On September 3, 2022 she appeared as guest opinionist on Big Brother.