Ilary Blasi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːlari ˈblaːzi]; born 28 April 1981) is an Italian television host, former model and forme – FESCH.TV

Ilary Blasi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːlari ˈblaːzi]; born 28 April 1981) is an Italian television host, former model and forme & FESCH.TV:

Ilary Blasi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːlari ˈblaːzi]; born 28 April 1981) is an Italian television host, former model and former child actress.

Ilary Blasi

Blasi in 2014
Born
28 April 1981 (age 43)
Rome, Italy
Nationality
Italian
Occupation
Television host
Spouse
Francesco Totti

(m. 2005; sep. 2022)
Children
3
Early life
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Ilary was born in Rome, daughter of Roberto and Daniela. Her mother named her after one of her favourite Western movie heroines. Blasi has two sisters, Melory and Silvia. Blasi was introduced to showbusiness by her mother. As she declared in an interview, a neighbour told her mother that an agency was recruiting a blonde child with blue eyes for an advertisement of the „Panettone Galbusera“; Daniela brought Blasi to the casting, and she was selected for her first job.

Career
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Early career
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She joined showbusiness very early. At the age of 3, Blasi shot her first TV ad; at 5 she debuted in the cinema with a little role in the film „David & David“ directed by Giorgio Capitani; at 6 she was in the cast of „Da grande“ of Franco Amurri (accredited as „Hilary Blasi“) and „Vizio di vivere“ by Dino Risi. Later she appeared in the film „Fiori di zucca“ (1988) by Stefano Pomilia and „La dolce casa degli orrori“ (1989) by Lucio Fulci. In that period she did testimonials for various advertisers, like the one for the oil „Cuore“ with her whole family, „Cicciobello“ doll, „Renault“ cars and „Barilla Group“, „Galbusera“, „Findus“, „Balocco“ and „Sanson“ (food).

In search of success
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At the end of the 1990s Blasi tried different approaches to get back into show business; she worked as a model for the photo stories done by the „Lancio“ publishing house, she posed nude for a few photoshoots and walked the runways for some of the fashion agencies in Rome, she joined a comedy at the Testaccio theatre in Rome, and competed in the Miss Italia pageant in 1998, with the number 22 at the age of 17 wearing the belt of „Miss Cinema Lazio“. She had her first TV role, although it would not influence the course of her career, by joining the cast of the 1999 edition of Scherzi a parte. As Blasi wanted to continue to work in TV, after two years spent participating in many castings, all with a negative response, she decided to make a last attempt. She applied to the casting for the pre-dinner quiz game of Canale 5 Passaparola hosted by Gerry Scotti and she was recruited for the 2001/2002 edition.

Fame
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Regular presence on TV
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Ilary Blasi finally began her real TV career on 10 September 2001, debuting in Passaparola as one of the six members of the dance troupe, called „Letterine“ (which means „little letters“ as the show is about word games). To complete the dancing cast there were the veterans Daniela Bello, Silvia Toffanin and Alessia Fabiani and the newly hired Alessia Ventura and Ludmilla Radtchenko. During the 2002/2003 edition Blasi was in her second season as a Letterina as was Alessia Ventura, and they were joined by Federica Villani, Cosmanna Ardillo, Francesca Lodo and Morena Salvino.

Once the experience as a Letterina was over in June 2003, moved to the channel „Rai2“ to host the summer edition of the musical format „Top of the pop“ together with Alvin, touring between the cities of Diamante, Cagliari and Tempio Pausania and presenting two shows per week (Saturday at 2pm and Thursday at 10:40 pm).

In September 2003 Blasi was beside Fabio Fazio in his new show Che tempo che fa (How’s the weather), broadcast on „Rai3“ until May 2004. In the show, on-air from Friday to Sunday, Blasi was committed to introducing the connection with the various correspondents, presenting the special guests in the studio and reading the weather forecast at the end of the episode. From January 2004, to celebrate 50 years of the Italian public broadcaster „Rai“, Blasi made a little runway every Saturday wearing a dress used in TV shows that are considered to be milestones in the history of Rai.

On 8 March 2004, as part of the Italian women’s day, she hosted a special episode of „Le Iene show“, joining Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu (who normally host the show) together with Elisabetta Canalis and Kasia Smutniak.

From 18 September 2004, she came back to host again with Alvin, for the Italian edition of „Cd:Live“ on Rai 2. Meanwhile, she continued her experience beside Fabio Fazio in the new season of „Che tempo che fa“ on Rai3, till 9 April 2005. On that day she was interviewed live by Fazio and she admitted in public to being pregnant. At the 3rd month she let the audience know to expect the baby by the end of October and her boyfriend confirmed the news with a phone call while on air. Blasi was to be replaced by the Swedish show-girl Filippa Lagerback. Instead her last episode of „CD:Live“ was broadcast on 4 June with her showing a curvier silhouette and she introduced the girl who would play her role: Giorgia Palmas