San Sebastián, Spain
Ion Aramendi (born 11 February 1977) is a Spanish television presenter and former basketball player, who hosted the fourth series of Factor X Spain in 2024.
Born in San Sebastián, Aramendi's basketball career led him to move to Salamanca in 1996, playing for local clubs Tormes and Avenida, while studying journalism at the Pontifical University. In 2002 he returned to the Basque Country to play for Santurtzi.
In 2009 Aramendi moved to Madrid to kickstart his television career, joining the crew of reporters for Telecinco's gossip show Sálvame, where he would work until 2016. Then he would join the regional Basque network EITB as the host of talk show ¡Qué me estás contando!, staying on the programme until 2019, when he signed with TVE as the host of El cazador, the Spanish version of ITV game show The Chase.
Upon returning to Telecinco in 2022, he was appointed to host the Sunday talk shows of the channel's reality show Supervivientes while also helming game show Reacción en cadena since December of the same year. In 2024, Aramendi was announced as host for the revived Factor X.