An early passion for dance inherited from his father, his television debuts like dancer at «Amici» and then an increasingly rapid rise as a host which in no time led him to be one of the faces on which Rai is now bettingemptied by the many farewells of recent times.
Stefano De Martino, linked to Viale Mazzini by a new (and, it is said, very generous) multi-year contractis the name that bounces around as the successor to Amadeus ad “Your business”: «He will be busy managing prime time entertainment in the prime time slots of Rai 1 and Rai 2», reads the official press release released by Rai, but according to Dagospia there is also the option for a possible Sanremo takeover after Carlo Conti’s two-year period, without even excluding co-hosting at the Festival between 2025 and 2026 and other special evenings.
Lots of irons in the fire for the 34 year old from Torre del Greco who ended his adventure on Rai2 with the comedy show «Tonight everything is possible», complete with record share (14.33%) and accidental slip on the wet floor, luckily without damage.
Having become a dancer thanks to the passion passed on to him by his father, De Martino took his first steps in dance at 10 years old, just a child. A scholarship took him to New York in 2007, where he perfected the technique in a modern and contemporary context, and then the school of «Amici di Maria De Filippi» saw him sitting among the desks between 2009 and 2010, in the same edition in which he triumphs Emma Brown: the two get engaged and their love, born in the spotlight, can only be much talked about, also because in the middle, again thanks to the jailbird studio of «Amici», Belén Rodriguez enters, with which love at first sight strikes.
Having left Emma, Stefano begins an intense love story with Belén, from which the son Santiago: a long and tormented relationship, in which the two get married, they break up and then get back together several times. In the end, in 2023, the couple reaches the end of the line and her vitriolic confessions also arrive, again on TV, to Mara Venier’s microphones: «Stefano cheated on me with dozens of women», she tells «Domenica In». The 12 lovers of De Martino, called by her on the phone one by one, immediately become legend. Rodriguez admits that she collapsed due to Stefano’s inability to “know how to be a husband”.
He replies that when a relationship ends “everyone has their own truth”. To Fabio Fazio, during «Che tempo che fa», he says that he wants to protect the privacy of those involved: «I decided not to make my truth public simply because I have reasons. The most important are the good that I wanted and that I want for Belén and the fact that Belén is the mother of my son.”
The fact is that from a simple dancer and “husband of”, after his years on Amici as a professional and his first experiments as a host, De Martino took off and took on an increasingly independent television identity. He arrived at Rai in 2019 with «Made in Sud», then his CV is a zigzag between other seasons at «Amici» as a judge and new stints at Rai, first replacing Amadeus from which he inherited «Stasera tutto è possibili» and then in the late evening with his «Bar Stella». Now, in light of the new contract, it really seems that anything is possible for him.
