Tonight on television begins La Talpa 2024. The host of the show is Diletta Leotta, who said as a guest on Verissimo: “I can’t wait, I’m so excited.”

Diletta Leotta: “My mother married my brother’s father when I was three, but Mirko and I are very close. We are a tribe.”

Among the candidates for the reality TV show will be Gilles Rocca. Let’s find out more about the actor.

Gilles Rocca, who is he?

Born in 83, Gilles Rocca was born in Rome on January 12 (he is 41 years old). From a very young age, thanks to his parents who owned a musical instrument rental and technical assistance company, which has provided musical equipment to the Sanremo Festival since the early 2000s, he got closer to the world of show. As a child, Gilles Rocca dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. He played four years in Lazio then in Cervia. He participated in the second edition of the reality show Campioni – Il sogno, but his presence was very short-lived. At age 21, he suffered a serious injury during a match, leading him to decide to retire from football and focus on entertainment.

The career

He made his debut in the television series Carabinieri, where he starred alongside Alessia Marcuzzi and Luca Argentero. He then participated in many other similar programs, including Don Matteo, Distretto di polizia, RIS Roma – Delitti imperfetti, Le tre rose di Eva, but also Rimbocchiamoci le maniche and Nero a metà.

La Talpa 2024, this evening on TV the first episode: from the argument between Marina La Rosa and Gilles Rocca to the failed marriage proposal. Spoilers, casting and where it’s filmed

In 2012, he made his debut as a director, creating the short films Fame and L’ostacolo più grande. He then repeated the feat with the award-winning films Casting Die-Rector and Duchenne. During this same period, he appeared in two films, first Tre tocchi then Natale a Londra.

His popularity, however, came in 2020 when he participated and won Dancing with the Stars, and the following year he landed on the beach of L’isola dei famosi, where he was eliminated on the 50th day.

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In 2022, Gilles Rocca returns to the small screen by participating in Nudi per la vita, a docu-reality aimed at raising awareness of cancer prevention. In the fall of the same year, the actor showed viewers a new side of himself by participating in the show Tale e quale, where he placed third thanks to his performances of big stars like Tiziano Ferro and Jon Bon Jovi. After the success of the series, he returned for the spin-off Tale e quale Sanremo, where he won.

Private life: the (new) girlfriend

Gilles Rocca is dating actress Miriam Galanti. The couple had a crisis when they returned from L’isola dei famosi, but they later reconciled. In January 2024, he introduced his fans to his new girlfriend, actress Roberta Mastromichele, an actress who works in theater, film and television. One of his most recent projects is the film series Manuale d’amore by Giovanni Veronesi. “It was love at first sight,” Rocca told the weekly Mio, describing the joy of living in the present with Roberta. “I have known her by sight for over twenty years, and it had been twenty years since I last saw her. Although we did the same job and had many friends in common, we had never met. met all these years It was destiny to see each other again… Do I think of the future with her, I dream of the present,” he said, expressing his joy of enjoying every moment with her? his girlfriend.

Curiosities

He has numerous tattoos, including ideograms on his right shoulder, an initial on his right wrist, writing on his left forearm, various zodiac signs on his right bicep, and a letter on his right side.

The choice of this name, of French origin, is linked to the Formula 1 champion Gilles Villeneuve, who died a few months before his birth.

His Instagram profile (@gillesroccaofficial) has more than 95,000 subscribers.

He accompanied his father to 19 Sanremo festivals. What is Gil Rocca doing in Sanremo? He became famous at the 2020 Sanremo Festival because he appeared for a few seconds backstage when Bugo left the stage after Morgan changed the lyrics of the song.