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Wanda Nara (born 10 December 1986) is an Argentine
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Early life

Nara was born on 10 December 1986 in
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, Buenos Aires, to Andrés Nara and Nora Colosimo. She has a younger sister, Zaira.


Career

Nara officially debuted on stage as a second vedette in the summer theatre season of 2005–2006 in the
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''Humor en custodia''. In the summer theatre season of 2006–2007, Nara was a vedette in the revue ''King Corona'' by Jorge Corona. She left the revue after two months due to alleged abuse from the comedian and his wife. Nara, after the scandal (which gave her much notoriety in the gossip magazines), signed a contract with Showmatch's ''Patinando por un sueño'', aired in August–December 2007, as contestant and soubrette. In late 2009 she participated in '' El musical de tus sueños'' as a contestant archiving success, and in May 2011 she became contestant in ''
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'', a contest Nara left to go to Italy with her then-husband
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, and was replaced by her sister Zaira. Nara, in September 2018, replaced Melissa Satta as co-presenter, showgirl and opinionist in ''Tiki Taka - Il calcio è il nostro gioco'', the sports talk show of
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aired in the late night slot and hosted by Pierluigi Pardo. The program was aired in 2018, and also in 2020, on
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, and aired in 2019 on
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. The roles of Nara and Pardo in this program ended in March 2020 due to the
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and in the next season (aired from September 2020 on Italia 1) they were replaced by Piero Chiambretti. In early 2020 Nara took part in the fourth season of ''
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'' (hosted by
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and aired on
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) as opinionist with Pupo. In September 2022 Nara became one of the four panelists in the first season of the Argentine talent '' ¿Quién es la máscara?''. In February 2023, she became the new presenter of Masterchef Argentina.


Personal life

Nara was married to
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from 28 May 2008 to 6 November 2013; Nara and López divorced after López accused her of cheating on him, but she accused López of repeated marital infidelity and the Argentine magistrates absolved him from the charge of harassment against their home governess, but she got the public recognition that she was betrayed by her husband. López and Nara have three sons, Valentino Gastón López Nara (born January 25, 2009 in
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), Constantino López Nara (born December 18, 2010 in
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) and Benedicto López Nara (born February 20, 2012 in
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); not long after her divorce Nara, with her sons, left Italy to return to Buenos Aires and began a relationship with
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. Icardi knew Nara during his friendship with López when they played during the
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in the same team (
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). The following season, during the April 2014
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match between Lopez's
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and Icardi's
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, López notably refused to shake Icardi's hand, leading the international press to dub the game ''Wanda Derby''. Nara and Icardi subsequently married on 27 May 2014 with a small ceremony in
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and a big wedding party on 7 June 2014 which attracted the attention of the international press. López, in April 2016, repeated the story of ''Wanda Derby'' by again refusing to shake his hand during a Serie A match. Nara and Icardi have two daughters, Francesca Icardi Nara (born January 19, 2015 in
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) and Isabella Icardi Nara (born October 27, 2016 in
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). On 16 October 2021, Nara wrote a message on her
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story seemingly directed at her husband Icardi. The message said that someone had "ruined another family for a
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", referring to María Eugenia Suárez, better known ''“China Suárez”''. The following day, she left
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for
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, the family's former home until 2019, with her five children. Later, the two spouses reconciled, and Nara and her five children returned to live with Icardi. However, Nara announced the end of their marriage almost a year later on 22 September 2022 in Instagram Stories. Two months later, Nara and Icardi were back together, before once again splitting a month later. Their on-again, off-again relationship continued with another reconciliation in 2023. In July 2024, she announced her definitive separation and in November of that year, she confirmed her relationship with L-Gante. In an Instagram live, L-Gante confirmed their relationship started on 2021. Later, she also confirmed that in early 2023; she had an affair with
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. On January 5, 2025, she announced the end of her romantic relationship with L-Gante. On January 21, of that year, L-Gante stated they were back together, and on April 20 of that same year, he revealed that they had broken up again.https://caras.perfil.com/noticias/celebridades/termino-misterio-l-gante-oficializo-vuelta-wanda-nara-todo-orden.phtml


Television


Discography


Singles


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nara, Wanda 1986 births Living people Argentine expatriates in Italy Argentine female models Participants in Argentine reality television series People from San Isidro Partido