Overview

• The female face of La Ruota della Fortuna alongside Gerry Scotti, Lui is fronting one of Italy’s most-watched shows with recent peaks around 5–5.5 million viewers.
• She says her father left before she was born and now has another family, adding that attempts to reconnect found him not ready.
• Raised near Udine by her mother and grandparents, she credits her mother’s sacrifices for funding singing, dance and acting courses and says she did not face overt racism growing up.
• After seven years with entrepreneur Luigi Punzo, she says she is waiting for his marriage proposal rather than making it herself.
• Her path runs from third place at Miss Italia 2017 to L’Eredità, Tale e Quale Show and Grande Fratello, and she says she aims to host a musical entertainment program, citing Raffaella Carrà; she also acknowledges a breast augmentation.