Massimo Giletti is a guest today on Mara Venier. The journalist and TV host returns to Rai. The announcement, after several rumors, arrived at the Ariston during the third evening of the Sanremo Festival 2024. Amadeus, embracing him, said: "Welcome and welcome back to Rai". And he: "We will celebrate 70 years of TV on February 28, on Rai1 in prime time, with big names. Returning to the company where I was born and grew up, professionally and as a man - Giletti said during the third evening of the Sanremo Festival - is a very intense emotion. I dedicate it to the people who are here, who have given me warmth in difficult moments that I cannot forget".
Today at Sunday In he will present the evening event. While waiting for the live broadcast, let's find out more about the journalist.
Who is Massimo Giletti?
Massimo Giletti was born in Turin on March 18, 1962 (he is almost 62 years old), the third child of the family that owns the textile company Giletti SpA, founded in 1884 by the host's great-grandfather. His father, Emilio, who died in 2020, was a race car driver for the Ferrari and Maserati teams before dedicating himself to managing the family business.
The career
The career In 1988 he made his debut as a journalist in the Mixer editorial office and debuted as a television presenter in 1994 in Morning in family and at Noon in family on Rai 2. From 1996 to 2001 he is the presenter of Your facts and in 2002 of Casa Raiuno. In 2004 he presents Sunday In with Mara Venier. From 2005 to 2016 he hosts the talk-show The arena and in 2017 he moves to La7 to host Not the arena.
In 2019 he returns to Rai as a guest on Dancing with the stars. After various battles and disciplinary proceedings (including three suspensions in 1998, in 2005 and in 2006) for mixing journalistic activity and advertising, in 2008 Massimo Giletti resigned from the Order of Journalists. He will be welcomed back by the Piedmont Order in 2014.
Death threats
Since 2020 Giletti has been under escort due to death threats received from the mafia following his journalistic investigations. In 2020 Massimo Giletti presents on LA7 an investigation into the release of mobsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. Following threats received from boss Filippo Graviano, Giletti lives under escort.
Private life
From a professional point of view, we know a lot about Massimo Giletti's private life, we really know very little. The host admits to Fagnani that he has been "very dishonest" with women. "The difficulty is that one is always looking and the search involves betrayals (...) The nursing tendency of women, in the sense "I cure him", but Giletti is incurable". During his career he is linked to colleague Antonella Clerici during the '90s and then has relationships with Democratic Party deputy Alessandra Moretti and model Angela Tuccia. The two had a three-year relationship from 2011 to 2013, but then got back together in 2017. Last year he was caught in the company of actress Claudia Gerini, but the gossip about their alleged love story has never been confirmed. The following year the journalist returns to the front page for some photos taken by paparazzi that portray him in the pool in the company of skier Sofia Goggia. The shots arrive in the summer period after several months of speculation about their relationship, in this case however both choose not to confirm or deny the rumors. In Massimo Giletti's private life, currently, there seems to be no new girlfriend. But at Belve he declared to have a partner for ten years. So it could be that it is always the model Angela Tuccia who is by his side. There has often been speculation about a liaison between the host and Barbara D'Urso but between the two there seems to be only a strong friendship.
The disease
Disease The host revealed in an interview that he has suffered from a severe form of scoliosis since he was a child, which in the past forced him to several hospitalizations. "I had to wear braces and plaster corsets - Giletti said - What I had to endure in those years, however, shaped me for the future". He himself stated that he was able to overcome the disease thanks to the faith that led him to make as many as thirty pilgrimages to Lourdes.
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