Ilary Blasi is an Italian showgirl

Showgirl

A showgirl is a dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show. Showgirl is also often used as a term for a promotional model in trade fairs and car shows, etc...

, model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

, television personality, and former child actress.

Career

Born in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, she started her career at the age of three in an Italian commercial.
When she was five years old she got her first part in the film David and David; then, at the age of six, she starred in Da grande

Da grande (film)

Da grande is a 1987 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Franco Amurri, starring Renato Pozzetto, Ottavia Piccolo and Alessandro Haber....

by Franco Amurri

Franco Amurri

Franco Amurri is an Italian film director, producer and writer best known for directing such films as Da grande, which inspired the Tom Hanks film Big, Monkey Trouble and Flashback....

 and in Vizio di vivere by Dino Risi. Afterwards she worked in Fiori di zucca (1988) by Stefano Pomicia and La dolce casa degli orrori (1989) by Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...

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After some other television programmes, she became a soubrette

Soubrette

A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".-Theater:...

 of Passaparola (Password). Then she started to work for RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 in programs such as Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

, CD live and Che tempo che fa

Che tempo che fa

Che tempo che fa is a popular Italian television talk show hosted by the Italian television host Fabio Fazio and is broadcast live on Saturdays and Sundays on the Italian State TV Channel Rai Tre in Milan since 2003....

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In 2006 she was the co-host of Festival di Sanremo, then worked again for Mediaset

Mediaset

Mediaset S.p.A., known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country...

 in the program Festivalbar

Festivalbar

The Festivalbar was an Italian singing competition that took place in the most important Italian squares during summer, such as the Piazza del Duomo, Milan; the first time it was held was in 1964...

with Cristina Chiabotto

Cristina Chiabotto

Cristina Chiabotto is an Italian showgirl.Chiabotto was born in Moncalieri, in the province of Turin . She has a younger sister, Serena.In 2004 she won Miss Italia and started working for RAI....

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From 2007 to 2010, she was working on Italia 1

Italia 1

Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...

's hit show Le Iene

Le Iene

Le Iene is a television program broadcast on the Italian channel Italia 1 . Beginning in 1996, it is a comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. It is based on an Argentine show Caiga Quien Caiga.The first series was hosted by Simona Ventura,...

with Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu. She also featured in Italian television commercials, advertising a popular mobile phone

Mobile phone

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 network operating company.

Personal life

She is the second of three sisters; her older sister's name is Silvia and her younger sister's Melory. She married the World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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-winning football player Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti, Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully utilized as a lone striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most...

on 19 June 2005; they have a son, Cristian (born on 6 November 2005), and a daughter, Chanel (born on 13 May 2007).