Jimmy Ghione: “I’ve always been the beautiful shift, but in love I suffered like a dog”

Twenty -eight years a Strip the newsa long career also built on a “beautiful” image that has not always made him easy to get seriously taken. Jimmy Ghione, in an interview a Republicretraces the most significant stages of his life, between auditions gone badly, family pain and a present full of novelty.

After the end of the studies, he leaves Italy and He moved to the United States for four years. A choice made for loveas he himself says: «I met a girl who was a model. I went to Florida to her and then there I started to study acting ». But reality on the return is very different from the initial ambitions: «I am not ashamed to say it but, When I returned from America I was more ric tin tin than Robert De Niro».

Then it was the turn of appearance in the films, of roles in which the face and physique were the protagonists. “I took photo novels and movies where I also saw the B side … because I was a bit the beautiful shift. They are still obviously », jokes, but not too much. «Unfortunately it is taken for granted that a beautiful one is stupid and that he cannot do things. However, here, to destroy that stereotype, more than the others must be done. To demonstrate that it is not true that if you have a role or you have a position, it’s just because you are beautiful. And I can say that my twenty -eight years a Strip They are a testimony: it took me the contents as well as, certainly, beauty. But despite my beautiful face and side B, in love I suffered like a dog … ».

If at work it has been able to earn credibility and respect, things have been more complex in the sentimental field. Jimmy Ghione returns with thought to end of the marriage to Tania, the woman who shared her life for years: «He left me eight years ago And I suffered again like a dog. When I met her I thought it was the woman of my life, for me the family was (and it is) everything ».

Their story had begun in Aosta, on the occasion of a charity match: «We met twenty -five years ago, she worked in the world of football, I was there with other journalists. Then we got married. But the marriage was shipwrecked ». Today next to him is Marialaura, 27 years oldwith whom he seems to have found a new balance: «After various vicissitudes I met my current girlfriend. It is much more mature than the identity card says. Study, does theater, diction, dubbing workshops. But life is complicated, in love and beyond ».

The landing on Strip the news, In 1998, it is a turning point. But even there, the beginnings are not the simplest. Jimmy Ghione meets Lorenzo Beccati, historical author of Antonio Ricci’s program, and proposes himself: «He asked me to do a service and I did it very badly: he was on antidoping. And then Ricci called me aside and he said to me: “Look, you are perfect, but you have to make the service exactly on the contrary Compared to how you did it “».

The problem, admits, was the approach: “I was too close, I thought that to work in the format he meant to be severe, pungent». Instead Ricci explains to him that you need anything else: “I didn’t have to be aggressive, I had to do myself”.

Among the services that recall more pride there is the investigation on Vanna Marchi, culminating in the identification of the swindler do Native: a teamwork that deeply scored him. But The most painful remains the one on the Italian military affected by the depleted uranium in Kosovo: “That was the service that touched me most,” he admits.

In his path, two figures played a fundamental role: Antonio Ricci and Ezio Greggio. “I owe everything to them,” he says.