Her cooking program, Everyday Italian, has been broadcast on Food Network since
2003. On her Chefography (a Food Network biography program), she admitted that
she never wanted to be in her “family business” of show business. She felt very
uncomfortable in front of the camera when she first began hosting Everyday
Italian, but has since become more relaxed and open on air. When the program
first aired, Food Network received emails accusing the network of hiring a model
or actress pretending to cook instead of a real chef.
Elisabetta Canalis
Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian model and actress. A popular personality on
Italian television, Canalis had very minor roles in the films Deuce Bigalow:
European Gigolo and Virgin Territory.
She was also a “velina” in one of Italy’s most popular television shows,
Striscia la notizia. In 2007, she hosted the annual music festival, Festivalbar.
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress, born Sofia
Villani Scicolone. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian
actress of her time and is also famous for being a major international sex
symbol.
By the late 1950s, Loren’s star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with films such
as 1957’s Boy on a Dolphin and The Pride and the Passion in which she co-starred
with Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra. Grant, reportedly, fell so deeply in love
with Loren that he ardently proposed marriage, despite her obvious loyalty to
Carlo Ponti and Grant’s own union with actress and writer Betsy Drake. Loren
refused.
Sara Varone
Born in the ruins of Rome, Italy, with all the stray kittens, Varone’s own
sweater kittens have made her into a Televison Personality Star! After finishing
her phychology degree, this brainy brunette got bored with continually asking
why, so she entered the world of modeling and got a gig on her first game show
Uomini e Donne, hosted by Maria de Filippi.
The February 2001 Esquire Magazine’s feature on Desire featured Ms. Bellucci on
the cover and in an article on the five senses. In 2003, she was featured in
Maxim. In 2004, she topped AskMen’s 100 Most Beautiful Women in the World annual
list. Bellucci’s modelling career is managed by Elite+ in NYC. She is considered
an Italian sex symbol.She is currently a face of a range of Dior Cosmetics.
Bellucci is also signed to Storm Model Management in London.
