In the top ten of the films with the highest grossing at the cinema in Italy, four are his (and three by “rival” James Cameron, in the ranking with Titanic and the first two chapters of Avatar). A hegemony that confirms the leading role of Checco Zalone in the Italian filmography, and which makes the box office race even more interesting Natale 2025. The Apulian comedian returns to the cinema from December 25th with Good Wayditto the director who launched the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, ready to leave his mark with Avatar 3. “James Cameron should wake up on the morning of the 26th and say ‘who the f*** is this Zalone?’” said Checco, not hiding his desire to break new records (and of course, collect a lot of money).
The movie Good Way it is the story of a father’s journey to Santiago de Compostela together with his daughter, and the theme of parenthood is one of the fulcrums of the story. With the hook of the plot of the film, Zalone exceptionally opened up about his private life during the promotion of the film: here’s what he said.
Checco Zalone is the father of two little girls
Despite his fame, Checco Zalone is notoriously allergic to the spotlight and always very shy about his private life. Photos with the family and social media incursions are non-existent, quotation marks are very rare. In a recent interview with the Corriere della Serathe comedian from Capurso born in 1976, born Luca Medici (and with a law degree in his pocket), spoke about fatherhood and the relationship with his daughters struggling with adolescence and pre-adolescence. From the union with his historic partner Mariangela Eboliknown in 2006 (yes, the year of the turning point with the song We are a very strong team for the World Cup in Germany won by the Azzurri), in fact, the two daughters of Checco: Gaia born in 2013 and Greta in 2017.
The eldest daughter has already made her first appearance on the big screen, specifically in dad’s film Sunshinereleased the year of her birth: in a sequence of the film a newborn appears, who is little Gaia. Today he is 12 years old and has a new passion: horse riding. “The big girl is entering her adolescent phase. She rides a horse every day: it’s a beautiful sport, but demanding,” said the 49-year-old, “if you show up after a week, the horse gets angry and makes you pay.”
Ceccho Zalone and farewell to Mariangela Eboli after 18 years together
Mariangela was Checco Zalone’s partner for 18 years. The two met in 2006 in Casamassima (Bari), in a club, where he was taking his first steps as an actor and comedian and she was in charge of managing the karaoke. For him it was love at first sight while she let herself be won over by his marked irony. Shortly afterwards he arrives Zelig Off and the first film, I fall from the clouds (2009), directed by Gennaro Nunziante (it is no coincidence that Checco’s lover is called Angela), followed by What a beautiful day (2011), Sunshine (2013), Where am I going? (2016), Slow down (2020) to the end good way (2025). The latter will be the first film without Mariangela at his side and not only on the private side: Eboli, in fact, managed his partner’s production company, Mzl until last summer, when the couple decided to separate..
To announce the farewell news, Dagospiawith a detailed story of papers signed on the desk of a well-known divorce lawyer from Rome and of Checco far from the family home. Today it is Zalone who confirms the farewell from the pages of Corriere della Sera. “It’s true, we’re not together anymore”he admitted, “But we were never actually married. And we’re on great terms.”
Checco Zalone and his flirtation with Virginia Raffaele
The news of the separation from his historic partner went hand in hand with the gossip news of a flirtation between Zalone and his colleague Virginia Raffaele after a few sightings together. Again to Aldo Cazzullo, Checco denied the rumor after more than a year. “They said all sorts of things,” he said Cds“Also that I got together with Virginia. I saw her again the other day, for the first time since the video about Covid and herd immunity, and we laughed about it. In reality, Virginia knows I’ll never give it to her.” Virginia had also tried to throw water on the fire by talking about friendship: “We’re just friends”, she admitted on the matter, even if not everyone fully believed it.
The company’s revenues after the separation from his partner
Mlz srl, a film company of which Checco Zalone is a 95% shareholder (the remaining 5% belongs to his mother Antonietta Capobianco), according to the latest data released by Openwould have suffered particularly the exit of ex-partner Mariangela Ebolisole director until last year. The newspaper speaks of “revenues decimated in the space of a year, falling from 4,328,494 euros to just 327,296 euros” and earnings reduced by 44 times, from 1,402,200 euros to 31,435 euros.
Today Checco is sole director and his salary has been reduced (86,887 euros gross compared to the 108,739 euros gross that his ex-partner received annually for covering the same role) and is ready to see his finances replenished with the guaranteed earnings of Good Waynot to mention that “his company has set aside many earnings from previous years among the statutory reserves, for a total of 7.299 million euros”.
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