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Carmela Tonto, aka Carmen di Pietro, was born in Potenza on 24th May 1965 from father Donato (railwayman) and mother Emma. She has two brothers, Vito and Giuseppe, and a sister, Maria, who passed away when she was only three years old.
For her father's work needs, Carmen moved first to Bologna where she attended kindergarten and then to Salerno.
In Salerno she attended elementary and high school, always spending her summer holidays in Baragiano with her paternal grandparents and in Bella with her maternal grandparents. She obtained her high school diploma at the Istituto Magistrale Regina Margherita in 1983. Afterwards she l
Carmela Tonto, aka Carmen di Pietro, was born in Potenza on 24th May 1965 from father Donato (railwayman) and mother Emma. She has two brothers, Vito and Giuseppe, and a sister, Maria, who passed away when she was only three years old.
For her father's work needs, Carmen moved first to Bologna where she attended kindergarten and then to Salerno.
In Salerno she attended elementary and high school, always spending her summer holidays in Baragiano with her paternal grandparents and in Bella with her maternal grandparents. She obtained her high school diploma at the Istituto Magistrale Regina Margherita in 1983. Afterwards she lives between London, Rome, Milan, Paris and Madrid, where she works as a model.
She achieved popularity in the early nineties thanks to her television appearances with Gianni Ippoliti, on RAI 1 with Le sfumature di Ippoliti and on RAI 3 with Spazio Ippoliti. After her success as an actress in several theatre shows and films Carmen has also worked as a presenter in several local TV shows. She came to the forefront of the news for declaring, in 1997, that one of her breast implants had exploded during an air trip due to the pressurization of the cabin.
On June 17, 1998, after 5 years of engagement, Carmen Di Pietro married Sandro Paternostro, historical Rai correspondent from London and a character who has marked the history of Italian journalism and television. The marriage caused a stir because of the enormous age difference: he was in fact 76 years old, while she was only 33. The event was filmed by newspapers and television stations all over the world.
What immediately made the showgirl fall in love, in her own words, was "the mix of English humor and Sicilian impetuosity, as well as Sandro's charm and great culture, which he intelligently never flaunted. The marriage was celebrated despite the hostility of Paternostro's first-bed sons: Roberto and Alessandra. Later Neri Parenti called them to play the role of themselves in the 1998 comedy film Paparazzi.
She was widowed on July 23, 2000 Carmen did not want to marry for a long time in order not to lose her late husband's considerable pension. Later, at the age of 36, she became the mother of Alessandro and, at 43, of Carmelina. Both children are the result of the relationship with her partner, Giuseppe Iannoni. On February 28, 2015 the couple receives a religious blessing, with a Catholic rite in a church in Rome and in a church in London. In June 2017 the showgirl separates definitively from Giuseppe Iannoni.
Carmen Di Pietro's artistic career begins at the Teatro La Chanson in Rome as a showgirl in the show Italian Beauty. This was followed by several showgirl seasons, until she stepped onto the stage at the Ariston Theatre in Sanremo in the cabaret show Il Diavolo sveste Prodi, with the author and director Claudio Natili (2007). He was one of the actors in the 1987 Italian comedy Quelli del casco, directed by Luciano Salce, and in 1988 he was in the cast of Tinto Brass' Snack Bar Budapest. In 1991 he starred in the film Ossessione fatale by Joe d'Amato and played a leading role in the thriller Belle da morire directed by Riccardo Sesani; in 1993 he was in the cast of Abbronzatissimi 2 - Un anno dopo by Bruno Gaburro; in 2016 CREED'C directed by Francesco Cippone and Lucky Dario Fortunato.
In 1996 he joined Lino Banfi in Viva la Radio, a variety show on tour in the main Italian squares, broadcast live by Rai Radio 2. In 1995-1996, with the songs Tocalo tocalo (Sony Music) and La Fiesta (both written by Cristiano Malgioglio), Carmen participated as a showgirl in some Spanish TV programmes TVE 1 and Telecinco. Other TV appearances will follow, which will increase the fame of the Italian showgirl throughout Spain.
In 2015, shortly after turning half a century old, she created a sexy calendar - under the supervision of photographer Bruno Oliviero - whose proceeds will be donated to charity.
Carmen Di Pietro made her television debut in 1994 with Gianni Ippoliti in the programmes Le sfumature di Ippoliti (Rai 1) and Spazio Ippoliti (Rai 3). In 1995, during her participation in the program Una sera c'incontrammo ci (Rete 4), directed by Maestro Vince Tempera, she performed together with Sandro Paternostro. Thanks to her ironic and spontaneous acting, she is often a welcome guest of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, on Canale 5. Over the years she has established herself in the world of show business with various television appearances, both as a showgirl and as a columnist, in the most important Rai and Mediaset entertainment venues. In 2000-2001 she took part in the transmission of Paolo Limiti Alle due on Rai 1, on air on Raiuno.
From 2001 to 2002 he was constantly present as a columnist in the programme La vita in diretta (Rai 1) and, since 2002, again as a columnist, he is also present in L'Italia sul 2 (Rai 2). From 2004 to 2007 he participated in the programs of Teo Mammucari Libero (Rai 2) and Distraction (Italia 1). In 2004 she was one of the protagonists of Rai 2's reality show L'isola dei famosi, where Carmen divided Antonella Elia and Aída Yéspica in the historical quarrel and where she was eliminated during the fifth episode and refused the televoting with Sergio Múñiz to try to stay on the last beach. In 2005 she is in the cast of Sunday in, presented by Mara Venier, as showgirl. From 2011 to 2013 he is a columnist in the program of Rai 1 Verdetto final. Throughout 2014 she is the guest of Barbara D'Urso in Pomeriggio Cinque, on Canale 5.
In September 2014 she will present in Salerno, with the TG1 journalist Paolo Di Giannantonio, five evenings of the prestigious National Mediterranean Award. In 2016, in the program of Rai 1 Sabato in, in the column of Gianni Ippoliti the showgirl reads and interprets the verses of the great poets. In 2017 she participated as a contestant in the second edition of the Big Brother VIP broadcast on Channel 5, conducted by Ilary Blasi, being eliminated in the fourth episode with 68% of the votes. In 2019 she participated in the cooking show La prova del cuoco for some episodes. Since September 3, 2018 she is co-host of the radio show Morning Show, on air every morning on Radio Globo, a local Roman radio station. She is in charge of the column "Ask Carmen", where radio listeners ask some questions about general culture to Di Pietro, who answers in an imaginative and out of context way.
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