Hull City owner Acun Ilıcalı announced a sponsorship deal with Murat Ülker.
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Ilıcalı stated the following about this cooperation:
“Murat Ülker showed his interest in our club by watching Hull City matches throughout last season. Murat Ülker's love for football and his desire to contribute to Hull City's success will be a great support for us.
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As a club, we are delighted to be partnering with McVitie's, a globally recognized brand. We believe this will be a great partnership for Hull City and our fans. This agreement between McVitie's and Ülker Group shares the same values and vision as the McVitie's brand, which has been preferred by many families for more than 180 years.
Together with McVitie's and our other sponsors, everyone at the club is looking forward to working with McVitie's.”
Murat Ülker expressed the following words:
“This collaboration is an important step that reflects the strength of Turkish entrepreneurship in the international arena. Seeing the legendary McVitie's logo on Hull City's kits and training wear is a source of great pride for all of us. We are happy to move forward together on this journey of success.”
Who is Acun Ilıcalı?
Ali Acun Ilıcalı, born in Edirne in 1969, is a Turkish television producer and presenter. He is the producer of Turkish television programs such as Acun Firarda, Varı? Yok musun?, Fear Factor, Survivor, Yetenek Sizsiniz Turkey.
The second child of Ergün and İlknur Ilıcalı, born in Erzurum, Ilıca district, Acun was born on May 29, 1969 in Edirne. Acun Ilıcalı, a Gemini man, has an older brother named Ömer Cenker Ilıcalı. His father was a contractor and his mother was a university educated manager. He has an older brother named Ömer Ilıcalı. He started at the age of 5 and completed his primary and secondary education at Edirne İstiklâl Primary School. Acun started his high school education at Kadıköy Maarif College in Istanbul and after graduating from Kadıköy Anatolian High School, he enrolled in the Department of English Language Teaching at Istanbul University, but his university life ended after 7 years without graduating. He lost his grandmother and grandfather, whom he expressed in every interview that he loved them very much, in a traffic accident.
When he was 19 years old, he married Seda Ilıcalı in 1988 and had a daughter named Banu from this marriage. He lost his parents in a traffic accident in 1990, 10 months after the birth of his daughter. He would later describe the incident as follows;
After divorcing his wife, he had a major accident with his motorcycle on Bağdat Street in 1994. His close friend sitting behind him lost his life in the accident. Acun Ilıcalı's left arm was broken and a platinum was placed in his arm after an operation with 36 stitches.
In 1995, he started trading by opening a jeans shop, but he was not successful. After his undergraduate education, he took the university exams again and although he won the English Language Teaching department, he gave up studying. Acun met İlker Yasin through a friend and when he impressed him with his knowledge of soccer, he was hired to be tested. Although he was a staunch Fenerbahce fan, he became a Beşiktaş correspondent. As a Beşiktaş reporter, when he managed to get intimate with football players and conduct special interviews, his star suddenly shone and he was transferred to Şansal Büyüka's team, Show TV. He became Şansal Büyüka's favorite employee in Televole fury.
In the years when Televole was a sports magazine, he started to present a section of his own within this program and traveled around the world within this section. Then he continued to present this episode in 2002 with a separate program called Acun Firarda. It became the most watched travel program and he traveled to 105 countries with this adventure. He took part in the cast of the programs Dokun Bana and Biri Bizi Gözetliyor and worked as a co-presenter.
In 2005, he founded the production company Acun Medya. He became the producer, jury and host of Fear Factor, Survivor, Girls - Boys, Survivor Turkey - Greece, Survivor Lions - Canaries, Varısın Yok musun, Giants League, Yetenek Sizsiniz and Yok Böyle Dans. The programs Yoksa Rüya mi (Or is it a dream?) presented by Uğur Dündar and Söyle Söyabilirsen (Tell me if you can tell me) presented by Behzat Uygur were also produced by Acun Ilıcalı. He also produced and hosted the O Voice Turkey and Survivor Celebrities - Volunteers competitions.
In 2005, at the age of 36, he became one of the tax record holders.
He has performed stand-up shows in various parts of Anatolia, especially in universities in Turkey. In his stand-up shows, he told the audience what happened to him during his professional life in a funny language.
He took part in Show TV's social responsibility project ‘81 Provinces 81 Schools’ and the program raised 3 million 725 thousand 563 YTL.
He married Seda Ilıcalı, a friend from university, in 1988 when he was 19. He had a daughter named Banu (b.1989) from this marriage. When he was 24 years old, he divorced in 1993.
Acun, who has two more daughters, Leyla and Yasemin, from his second marriage to Zeynep Ilıcalı in 2003, is the father of 3 daughters.
In 2010, his wife Zeynep Ilıcalı filed for divorce, claiming that he cheated on her with 20-year-old Şeyma Subaşı. Acun Ilıcalı, who agreed with lawyer Kezban Hatemi, who is the lawyer of famous names, did not accept his wife's allegations. In September 2011, they reconciled and the divorce case was dropped. In 2013, he had a daughter named Melisa from his extramarital affair with Şeyma Subaşı. On 12.07.2016, he divorced his wife Zeynep Yılmaz in a single divorce.
On September 20, 2017, Acun Ilıcalı and Şeyma Subaşı got married in France. The ceremony, to which approximately 250 people were invited, was attended by the famous names of the art and television world along with the lovers of the duo. Acun Ilıcalı invited his wife to the stage by saying, “It's a very special day for me, but there is someone who lives this day, my precious wife Şeyma Ilıcalı is coming with your Instagram phenomenon applause.”.
In the 2011 taxation period, Acun Ilıcalı, who accrued 2 million 836 thousand 191 liras of income tax for his income from activities such as speaker and presenter, entered the list in 62nd place.
In 2012, Acun Ilıcalı, whose Survivor Celebrities Volunteers competition, which was filmed in the Dominican Republic, where he was the producer and presenter, broke viewing records, is one of the most talked about names.
The new Survivor series “Survivor Celebrities Volunteers 2013” prepared by Acun Media It started on Sunday, March 17, 2013 on Star TV with the presentation of Acun Ilıcalı.
Acun Ilıcalı, who previously made Survivor Lions Canaries (2006), Survivor Turkey Greece (2007), Survivor Girls Boys (2010) and Survivor Celebrities Volunteers (2011 and 2012), came up with Survivor Celebrities Volunteers 3.
On November 14, 2013, Acun Ilıcalı, who made a name for himself as Turkey's most prominent producer in the television industry, which he entered as a reporter, announced that he now owns his own TV channel by purchasing tv8. He wrote on Twitter that he agreed with Mehmet Nazif Günal, the president of MNG group and the owner of tv8 channel, and that the purchasing process has started.
In 2016, he launched TV8.5, an entertainment and sports channel that quickly became one of the most watched thematic channels in the country.
Ilıcalı’nın medya sektöründeki ilk uluslararası girişimi 2016 yılında Yunanistan’da gerçekleştirdiği projelerle başladı. Acun Medya, Yunanistan’da O Ses, Survivor, Yetenek Sizsiniz ve İşte Benim Stilim gibi birçok programın prodüksiyonunu yaptı. Skai TV’de yayınlanan programlar %70 civarında izlenme oranlarına ulaşarak Yunan televizyon tarihinde rekor kırdı.
As a result of the success in Greece, Acun Medya developed a format that combines sports and reality, a first in the world. Exathlon, a brand new competition program, was broadcast in many countries such as the U.S.A., Mexico, Romania, Colombia, Brazil and Hungary. Today, Exathlon is among the most watched programs in every country where it airs. With the success of Exathlon in the countries where it aired, Ilıcalı partnered with Ricardo Salina, the owner of Mexico's largest media group, to produce content for three years for the daytime and evening segments of Azteca Uno, one of the most watched TV channels in the country.
Today, Acun Medya produces dozens of productions in more than 10 countries on four continents around the world with its own formats and world-famous programs for which it has acquired the rights.
Acun Ilıcalı and Şeyma Subaşı ended their 1 year and 2 month marriage in 9 minutes by going to Silivri Courthouse on November 26, 2018. Making a statement after the hearing, Acun Ilıcalı said, “We are sorry for our divorce, the allegations against us are baseless.”.
Acun Ilıcalı Movies
2010 - Being Italian with Signora Enrica
2017 - My Companion
2018 - My Name is Osssman
Awards Received
Golden Bees Award for Best Male Presenter
In 2007, he was awarded the “Crystal Seagull” award by the Kadıköy Maarif College and Anatolian High School Alumni Association.