Serena Autieri: A Life Between Acting, Football Passion, and True Friendship

Serena Autieri is still a jeans and t-shirt girl. A true scugnizza who enjoyed climbing trees. It took her a while to make her mother understand this. But in the end, she won. A scugnizza raised on bread, Naples, and Diego Maradona as she herself tells to Corriere della Sera: "Behind our house was the Paradiso field, where Napoli trained. One day, I must have been 10 years old and I was with my dad, a huge fan, we met Diego himself. We approached him, he caressed my head and gave me a kiss on the forehead. 'The little girl has been blessed by Maradona!', my father boasted. For days, the family talked about nothing else." Today, she remains a big blue fan who watches the matches alone wearing her team's shirt, without dad, brothers, and even brothers-in-law. Michelle Hunziker, Gabriele Parpiglia against the host: "There is hatred between us, she is rude and does not show respect." Her debut in Un posto al sole among anxieties of not making it and happiness, then co-host of Alberto Castagna on Stranamore. "He invited me to his house to offer me the part - she still tells to Corsera - I wanted to act, not be on TV, but he was so nice that he convinced me in a second." Among the many things done also Sanremo 2003 with Pippo Baudo and Claudia Gerini. "I remember the audition with Pippo, it lasted an hour and a half, he made me sing, act, dance. He wanted me on stage with little makeup, while Gino Landi insisted that they had to hide my freckles on the face with a lot of foundation: 'On TV they look like spots'. But Baudo won. Since then, I always want him by my side, he was even my wedding witness." And she also played Donna Rosa on the piano. In her acting resume also a cinepanettone, Natale in Sudafrica: "At least one is needed, on the resume." Private life with a list of alleged previous flirts: Matteo Marzotto, Gabriel Garko, and Giovanni Malagò. "I do not talk about this, for me life exists from my husband onwards. Anyway, I was single and having fun, period." She met her husband Enrico Griselli through mutual friends "'You are perfect together'. I was skeptical. 'I am so good on my own, why do you want to stick this guy on me? Surely he will have some flaws'." As a good Neapolitan, she is also very jealous. Even extremely jealous she still tells to Corriere della Sera: "When you love so much, the irrational part of you, insecure, comes out. I used to make real Neapolitan scenes, keeping him on the phone until two in the morning. He impassive: 'Hey Mario Merola, now sing me a song'. But now I have improved." Her greatest friend? Michelle Hunziker. "Between us, there is pure love, which asks for nothing in return. Even if we see each other little, when we meet it is as if not even a moment has passed. The last time, in Milan, we hugged for ten minutes." Together they hike in the mountains, real climbs in San Cassiano, in Alta Badia. Too bad that "she wears absurd shoes. And I: 'But where did you get them?'. Capable of walking on ice in evening sandals, coming to the refuge at 2,000 meters with 12 cm heel boots."