A timeless icon at ‘Ballando con le Stelle 2024’

It’s time for the semi-final at Ballando con le Stelle 2024. As the competitors continue to train this evening on television, Saturday November 30, a timeless icon takes the stage for the space dedicated to the ‘dancer for one night’: Amanda Lear who, to the notes of Copacabana, will perform a samba with dancers Simone Iannuzzi, Filippo Zara and Samuel Santarelli. While we wait to see her performance, let’s find out more about Amanda Lear.

Amanda Lear, who is she: a mysterious childhood

Amanda Learreal name Amanda Tappwas born in Hong Kong on November 18, 1939 (she is 85 years old). His entire childhood is surrounded by many questions and some contradictions, to the point that the real date of birth could be June 18. All this contributed to creating an aura of mystery around him, which marked his entire career.

Dancing with the Stars 2024, this evening (Saturday 30 November) the demi-final: Samuel Peron replaces Angelo Madonia

The singer shows an early ability to learn different languages, she is fluent in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. She began working as a model in the early 1960s and Salvador Dali notices her for her androgyny, so the two begin a romantic and artistic relationship. Lear defined this union as a “spiritual marriage”, what is certain is that the years spent with the painter and his wife allowed the model to discover museums and salons of all kinds. Europe. Not only did the painter want it for some of his cinematographic projects and for pictorial works and press conferences which often transformed into real shows.

The career

French model, singer, writer, painter and presenter, she has long been the muse of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali. In the 1960s, her first big appearances on covers, then the international scene in the early 1970s thanks to a really important, if brief, love affair. In 1973, the singer posed, wearing a leather dress and a panther on a leash, on the cover of For Your Pleasurealbum musical des Roxy Music. This attracted the attention of David Bowie who, during the two years of love they shared, pushed her to enter the world of music.

Fake news (exploited) about his sexuality

An extraordinary biography for Amanda Lear painted on canvases made of sexual ambiguity. Sexy, irreplaceable and mysterious, this is how it has conquered millions of people. And the question of whether Amanda Lear was a man or a woman is one that millions of people have asked themselves for decades. The community was convinced that she was the first transgender person in television history. His real name, at birth, for some would even have been Alain René Tappa boy who underwent two gender reassignment operations. Rumors denied by the main interested party, who decided to pose naked for Playboy in order to silence all the rumors. In an interview with The Pressshe declared: “I am the first victim of fake news and conspiracy theorists. They said these photos were photoshopped. People talked about me, perhaps thinking of destroying me. And instead, they contributed to my fame. So here’s my advice to the victims of today’s fake news on social media: use it to your advantage.” And that’s what she did, she rode the wave of gossip.

The relationship with Salvador Dalí

If the career of Amanda Lear is shrouded in mystery, that of his private life is even more so. Breathtakingly attractive, there was no one who was not fascinated by the artist. It was the fall of 1965 when Amanda Lear encounter Salvador Dali (and she’s not that fascinated by it). This is where the relationship between Salvador Dalí and Amanda Lear begins. An unexpected relationship, because she, a student in Fine Arts, was not really a great admirer of the works of the surrealist painter, preferring instead Picasso, Magritte and De Chirico. And yet, despite an unpromising start, Lear will be Dalí’s lover and muse for seventeen years, in a relationship that could hardly fit into the best-known categories of love. The relationship between her and the surrealist painter lasted a very long time, no less than 16 years, but the two never married, the reason? “He was already the husband of Gala. She made me swear that if she died, I would take her place. I couldn’t, I was 25 and my music. And then, treacherously, she told me that I sang badly. He wanted me to stay by his side, but I didn’t want to marry an old man.” And indeed, this marriage never took place. “Dalí was madly in love with me, although he knew he could not satisfy me. I was dating handsome young men and he was enjoying his jealousy. He wanted me to tell him everything. It was a masochistic thing. I went dancing every night, I did a lot of drugs, I was definitely not a good girl. He accompanied me to the door of my lovers’ house and delighted in thinking about what I was going to do.

From David Bowie to Miguel Bosé

In 1973, the singer posed, wearing a leather dress and a panther on a leash, on the cover of For Your Pleasurealbum musical des Roxy Music. This attracts the attention of David Bowie who, during the two years of love shared, pushed her to enter the world of music. It was the star herself who suggested that her partner play on her ambiguous sexual identity. About him, she said important words to Vanity Fair: «He was the first to believe in me as an artist. He paid for singing lessons for me. (…) He wore more makeup than me, the problem with men who wear makeup is that they don’t remove their makeup at night to sleep (…) he dirtied the pillow with foundation»

Marriages and the death of the husband

The first marriage of Lear is with Morgan Paul Lear in 1965, while in 1979 she married Alain-Philippe Malagnac d’Argens de Villèle; unfortunately, the man died at the age of 51 due to the fire of their villa in Provence. From 2001 to 2008, the singer is linked to Italian Manuel Casellaforty years younger, met in the studio of Il brutto anatroccolo. In 2014, she became engaged to the actor Anthony Hornezwhile the last known companion is a mysterious young man whose name and age are unknown (probably between twenty and thirty years old), introduced by Lear herself in 2021 with an Instagram photo whose caption was only about where the photo was taken: Trocadéro

Bosé’s hot story

Another famous love of Amanda Lear has been Miguel Bose. It was he himself who told a juicy anecdote between them to the journalist Nuria Rocastating that he lost his virginity at the age of 17 precisely with Lear while he was at Dalí with his father, the bullfighter Dominguin. Amanda Lear at Verissimo in November 2021 gave his opinion on the matter: «I don’t understand why Miguel told this private thing, but we can see that I left him with a good memory. He was the son of the great bullfighter Dominguinwho was a great seducer and was concerned that Miguel was too delicate, gentle. He often came as a guest to Salvador Dalí in Cadaqués and one summer Dominguin practically threw him into my arms. Miguel and I went for a walk and this happened». Among Amanda Lear’s most recent relationships, we remember that with model Anthony Hornez, 40 years younger than her. The story began in 2014 and ended a few years ago (“It had to end”), before the relationship with the last boyfriend, a young man we met in 2021 and of whom we subsequently lost track . Probably it was a passing adventure and nothing more. It is not now known whether Lear has a companion or not, but in 2020 she told Oggi that «when I have a young lover, I like to share my life in general, not just the bed. Two hours of sex a day is the maximum».

L’intervention

In January 2022, she announced to her fans that she had undergone a delicate procedure at heartwhich went well. With the cannula still in the vein and the traditional smile to which she has accustomed us, Amanda écrit : «Glad I did! My heart is now repaired and will love my fans even more“. A positivity which is essential for the showgirl, residing today in France but also very famous in Italy. The operation took place in a clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, as deduced from the GeoTag. We do not know precisely what illness is affecting Amanda’s life, because she has always preferred to keep as much discretion as possible about her health conditions, preferring to show the exuberant face to which she has accustomed us. What is important is that the alert is lifted today.

Heritage

Amanda Learsince 2003, according to available information, decided to live in a small French village, Saint-Étienne-du-GrèsnearAvignon. We do not know the amount of his assets, but in 2020 at Todayshe said she would leave everything to her cats. «I wrote my will and left all my assets to my cats. I have ten, I love them more than anything and they love me… My cats saved me, they were the best doctors for me, that’s why I decided that they are the only ones worthy of my heritage. My money will go to a foundation whose sole purpose is to take care of my cats when I am no longer here»she revealed. But she also added that it will be difficult for anything to remain of her assets because she likes to spend money, «but we can sell my house, my paintings».