“You’ll see a fun, goofy Federica. I’m not participating in ‘Dancing with the Stars’ to win, but it’s a challenge with myself and to combat a little of this innate shyness.”. Federica Pellegrini will be among the protagonists of Milly Carlucci’s talent show, which returns this evening on television on Rai1 from 9:20 p.m.
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The ex-swimmer will dance as a couple with Angelo Madonia (the boyfriend of Sonia Bruganelli, also in competition). And she promises: “It will be a nice fair challenge because none of the participants are professional dancers. I don’t fear anyone, maybe Federica Nargi who is very good at dancing.. While we wait to follow the live stream and see how the athlete does on the dance floor, let’s find out a little more about her.
Federica Pellegrini on Dancing with the Stars, who is she?
Federica Pellegrini was born in Mirano (Venice) on August 5, 1988 (she is 36 years old) and grew up in Spinea. Nicknamed La Divine by many, she is considered the greatest Italian swimmer in history as well as one of the most talented and enduring in her field. She is 177 centimeters tall and weighs around 66 kilos.
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His mother, Cinzia Lionello, Venetian, was always passionate about swimming, while his father, Roberto, worked in a large hotel as a bartender; his maternal grandfather was the Italian Greco-Roman wrestling champion Gastone Lionello. It was her mother who introduced her to swimming, in 1995, when, at the end of the children’s aquatics lessons, she enrolled her in the first advanced lessons in the swimming pool of the Serenissima club, located in La Gazzera . She has a younger brother, Alessandro, born in 1990.
The career
Already at the age of 6, she successfully competed in her first competitions and entrusted herself to the technical training of Massimiliano Di Mito, who followed her until 2006. In 2002, she participated in the Italian Absolute Championships and won a bronze medal in 200 meters freestyle. In 2004, she made her debut in the national swimming team and participated in the Athens Olympic Games where she won the silver medal. In 2007, at the World Championships in Melbourne, she obtained her first world record. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won her first Olympic gold medal with a new world record.
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At the 2009 Rome World Championships, Pellegrini won two gold medals, in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle, and on both occasions she set a new world record. She repeated the same world double in Shanghai in 2011. The London Olympic Games in 2012 were a failure for Federica Pellegrini who did not do better than fifth place. At the World Championships in Budapest in 2017, she once again became the queen of the 200 meter freestyle by winning gold; a result she repeated two years later during her last world championship. In 2021, she will participate in her fifth and final Olympic Games, those in Tokyo.
The diploma and television
The San Raffaele University of Rome awarded her, on September 29, 2022, the Honoris Causa Master’s Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activities to the athlete Federica Pellegrini. Not only swimming, but Federica Pellegrini has also become a television face over the years.
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In 2019 she was a judge on Italia’s Got Talent, in 2021 she joined Le Iene alongside Nicola Savino. In 2022, with her husband Matteo Giunta, she participated in Beijing Express. Now the curtain rises for her on Dancing with the Stars 2024.
Private life: marriage to Matteo Giunta
Having become a public figure, much is known about her private life. From 2008 to 2011, Federica was in a relationship with Luca Marin; he had asked her to marry him, but their relationship ended when the swimmer found Pellegrini in a hotel room with Filippo Magnini, another Italian national team swimmer, during the World Championships in Shanghai.
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Federica and Filippo’s relationship lasted from 2011 to 2017, but she ended it because she was unsure of her feelings. Since 2017, she has been in a relationship with her former trainer Matteo Giunta. In September 2021, he asked her to marry him and she said yes. They were married in Venice on August 27, 2022 and on January 3, 2024, Matilde, their first daughter, was born.
Where she lives
Since 2006, Federica Pellegrini has chosen Verona as the city to live in. She was looking for a reality on a human scale and found it in the “city of love”. The small two-story house is extremely simple and rustic in style inside. Parquet floors, high ceilings and modern details. A large dressing room, an expression of her passion for fashion, houses a rich collection of clothes alongside soft toys, creating a unique balance between life as an athlete and motherhood. Finally, the detail that did not go unnoticed was of course Matilde’s bedroom, the most important place for the two new parents: the room was decorated with hand drawings by the artist Tony Gallo. In the videos published by Federica shortly before giving birth, we also see a beige sofa covered in hearts, a white cradle and a wardrobe where the newborn’s little clothes are kept.
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