Giulia Salemi (born 1 April 1993 in

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ian television presenter and model.

Early life and career

She was born in Piacenza to the Italian policeman Mario Salemi and the Iranian beautician Fariba Tehrani, who separated in 2009. She studied at the high school of human sciences and attended Economics at the

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, in the Piacenza branch. She was attracted from a very young age to the world of entertainment, she made her debut as a model. She embarked on a television career, she leaves her studies after a year. The first television participation takes place in the summer of 2012, in which she participates in the fourth edition of the Veline television program. The following year she takes part as a competitor, winning it, in the reality show of

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Sweet Sardinia. On September 14, 2014, she participates in the final of

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, where she is classified in third place and gets the national bands of Miss Sport Lotto and Miss TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. In February 2015 she joined

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in the conduct of the football talent show

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, broadcast on

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. In the same year she participates as a competitor paired with her mother Fariba in the fourth edition of

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, finishing in third place.

Private life

The former model dated the model Francesco Monte, met during the participation in the third edition of the reality show

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: the two broke off the relationship in the summer of 2019. From December 2020, a sentimental story began with the model and ex velino of

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Pierpaolo Pretelli always inside the house of Big Brother VIP, during the fifth edition.

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

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