For more than 15 years, the thin, blond, gravelly voiced Maria De Filippi has been hosting talk and gossip shows on Italy’s Canale 5, broadcast by Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset. She’s also the face of the popular talent show Amici, on which two groups of aspiring singers and dancers from the same high school compete against each other before a live audience and judges. De Filippi even has her own Stedman, and he’s famous in his own right: The host, 47, is married to Italian TV personality and journalist Maurizio Costanzo, 70, who also appears on Canale 5.










