Giovanna Civitillo, who is Amadeus’ wife: age, career, private life

Fifteen years apart, the meeting in The legacy at the beginning of the 2000s, the engagement in 2003, a son, Josè, in January 2009, the marriage with Amadeus in the summer of the same year, in Rome, in the church of Sant’Anna, Vatican City. Born a dancer Giovanna Civitillo from Vico Equense, studied classical dance, graduated in ’94 from the Bellini in Naples, and two years later began dancing on TV, moving from Rai to Mediaset and attending some of the most popular programs of the time, from Carramba what a surprise (1998) a Blessed among women (1999) a Sunday In (2001).

“At 8 years old, when the dance school opened under my house, I went down to find out about it” he said in an interview with Repubblica, “I watched Lorella, Martines, Heather Parisi on TV. I graduated in classical dance, I auditioned at San Carlo, at La Scala in Milan. Then I moved on to TV, to One morning in 1996, I was 18 years old. Dad accompanied me.”

But the turning point, professional and personal, comes with The legacy on Rai 1 where she landed in 2002 (her “shock” was famous) and where she remained until 2006. It was there that she won the favor of the public and it was there that she met the man who would become her husband (he had a previous marriage from which she had a daughter), she was 25, he was 40. “For me he was a gentleman, he gave me attention that I didn’t have from my peers. It was a great love that overwhelmed us.”

From that moment the career of Giovanna Civitillo, who gives up the role of dancer to take on that of presenter or co-presenter, follows that of Amadeus: during the Sanremo Festivals of 2020 and 2021, and for the 2023 edition, she becomes a correspondent de Life live. In 2021 he leads the PrimaFestivalin 2022 she co-hosts with her husband Your Business – Family formatand is currently one of the faces of It’s always middaythe Rai 1 cooking show hosted by Antonella Clerici.

They experienced together the great successes of recent years, but also the difficult moments, the years in which success and visibility were slow in arriving for Amadeus: “He didn’t give up, he started again from scratch – said Civitillo – the radio , Midday with the family, As such, Chain reaction. The best moment was the birth of José in 2009. Then we got into horse racing, riding frees your mind. We were outdoors, in the riding stables, we did competitions. In a dark time, we were living a fairy tale. Luck in life is finding the other half of the apple. It happened to us.”