The star made a resounding return to Italian television. This weekend, Amanda Lear made a notable appearance in the show “Ballando con le stelle”, the Italian version of “Dancing with the Stars” broadcast on Rai. In a sequined suit and yellow boa, the 85-year-old singer and actress caused a sensation during a samba.
Surrounded by her three partners, Amanda Lear demonstrated her dancing skills on a new version of the song “Copacabana”. A number that ended in style with a spontaneous kiss from the queen of disco with one of her dancers, the charming Filippo Zara.
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Not appearing among the candidates for this 19th season of “Ballando con le stelle”, Amanda Lear played the star dancers for one evening only. If she took part in Saturday evening's semi-final, it was as an exceptional guest, she who was a judge on the show between 2005 and 2009.
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Amanda Lear, superstar in Italy
Amanda Lear is a well-known figure in Italy, since her debut on the show “Stryx” in the late 1970s. Perfectly bilingual, she also hosted a show in the 1980s on Canale 5, the channel founded by Silvio Berlusconi , before moving to Rai (the Italian public audiovisual group) in the early 2000s.
When she's not swaying her hips on Italian television, Amanda Lear lives in France, in her Provençal farmhouse on the outskirts of the Alpilles, which she has owned for over forty years. This same house in which her husband Alain-Philippe Malagnac perished in a terrible fire in 2000. A tragedy that she spoke of frankly during an interview with Paris Match in the summer of 2023, as well as her retirement , anything but peaceful, punctuated by appearances on television, in the theater or in the cinema. “I want to stop, but people insist… They want me so much that they offer me large sums of money. Difficult to refuse, because I might need it to pay for my nursing home. [Rires.] »
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