Sonia Bruganelli Talked About Her Life and Career Amid Criticism

Sonia Bruganelli is ready to respond to her criticisms at Ballando con le Stelle 2024 and will do so today together with Mara Venier. The ex-wife of Paolo Bonolis will be the protagonist of the interview in which she will talk about her career and private life, as well as how she lived her journey, in the talent show Domenica In, hosted by Milly Carlucci. Sonia Bruganelli: ‘My father died in 5 minutes, everything changed. I feel guilty about breaking up with Paolo Bonolis. Boyfriend? ‘I need to be alone now.’ The appointment is at 14:00 on Rai1, in the meantime, let’s learn more about the entrepreneur. Sonia Bruganelli was born on 20 February 1974 (age 50) in Rome to Massimo and Giulia. The commentator often poses on social networks with his mother Giulia, to whom he is very attached: in many photos published on Instagram, the two often appear together. The woman is 75 years old. Sonia Bruganelli’s parents, Massimo and Giulia, remained together their entire lives until the man died of an aortic aneurysm in 2019. A terrible loss that left its mark on the lives of all his loved ones. She began working in the fashion world from an early age, lending her image to photo novels and also working as a promotional girl in nightclubs. He also studied and received his diploma in Communication Sciences. Thanks to her modeling work, she met Paolo Bonolis on the Canale 5 program Tira e Molla. Bonolis was the host and did telepromotion. He was thirty-six years old and she was twenty-three. At that time, he was already a well-known television personality and she was a young professional. They made their relationship official in ’97 and married in 2002, and had three children: Silvia, 20, born with a severe heart condition; Davide, 18; Adele, 14 (Bonolis is also father to Stefano and Martina, from his previous marriage to Diane Zoeller). Eight months into her pregnancy, Bruganelli discovered that her first son, Silvia Bonolis, had a serious heart condition. That’s why he had heart surgery as soon as he was born, but after the surgery he had ‘motor damage and always had difficulty moving his limbs.’ Bruganelli said in an interview with Verissimo that his damage was caused by hypoxia seven days after surgery. ‘The night before he had a heart attack I saw him in intensive care in grey; doctors said he was fine. ‘The disease then emerged during the shift change between doctors.’ Sonia has often talked about the difficulties she experienced when she learned that she had a daughter who was born with health problems. In many interviews, he pointed out the difficulties experienced by families who have to live with a disabled child and their often inadequate support. Silvia is now 19 and Sonia said in an interview: ‘I saw her so small with all these tubes and I was afraid to touch her, even to breastfeed her. And then I felt guilty about it.’ When Sonia learned about her daughter’s illness, she had to use all her strength to face the situation. Silvia is now doing well and it is a great pride for her family to see her as such a determined and self-sufficient person. Of the couple’s three children, 20-year-old Davide Bonolis is the most well-known: He is a football player for Triestina’s Primavera team. Adele, the youngest of Sonia Bruganelli’s children, appeared with her mother on the Verissimo program on Canale 5 channel, and the two talked about mother-daughter relationships on television. After meeting Paolo Bonolis and receiving her degree, she became an entrepreneur, creating a children’s clothing brand ‘Adele Virgy’ inspired by her children’s drawings. In 2005, he produced, among other works, Ciao Darwin and Avanti un altro! He opened his own agency, SDL, in 2005, which handles casting for Bonolis programs such as. Bruganelli also created a web TV called SDL TV, which offers exclusive content about her husband’s programs and hosts the program ‘I libri di Sonia’, where she interviews people who publish fiction or non-fiction books. In 2021, he became a commentator in the role of Grande Fratello Vip, which he assumes in the seventh edition, which will be published from autumn 2022. Now Cesara Buonamici has taken her place and moved to L’Isola. She eventually became a dancer in Ballando. In 2023, Paolo Bonolis announced the end of their marriage with Vanity Fair: ‘We are separated, but we are more together than ever. For our family, we will continue to be like that among us. This feeling is very strong, but it is no longer what brings us together.’ Sonia Bruganelli predicted this: ‘We are parents, we will continue to holiday together, we will keep the same dynamic. This is the news. ‘There are no third parties or lovers involved.’ Of course, Paolo Bonolis ‘endured’ the decision even though he ‘shared’ it. ‘How can you expect someone to do something they no longer want, to feel what they no longer feel, to be the person they no longer are?’ ‘But it wasn’t easy to accept the truth: he also wondered what he had or hadn’t done wrong towards Sonia, ‘and surely she must have done the same.’ Bruganelli, who is currently dating Ballando con le Stelle master Angelo Madonia, decided not to dance with him in the show. Bruganelli explained to Chi: “For a thousand reasons we asked not to dance as a couple, and I must say that I got along very well with my teacher Carlo Aloia.” ‘He reminds me of my brother, someone I can open up to. ‘I don’t think the rumors will be about me and Angelo, there are other couples that might be intriguing.’ Bruganelli tells Chi it’s a matter of sincerity: ‘I’m here to throw down my shield, and having a teacher like Carlo, who is so similar to someone dear to me, will allow me to let go and do things I can’t do, even in dance.’ If I had someone like Angelo, I wouldn’t share this . Then I would feel like I was revealing my sincerity, I would never do that, it would be a different contact…’ At the Ballando con le Stelle conference, Sonia Bruganelli answered journalists’ questions as usual. , frankly and directly. ‘Why did you agree to do the talent?’ they asked him and he answered without hesitation: ‘They are paying me, the contract is not bad, we are not all here for glory.’ How much do Ballando’s stars earn? How much are the fees for the show? There are no official figures. The fee for each hero is estimated to be around 30,000 Euros. Frankly, this is a rough figure per episode, because the greater the fame of the character, the greater the earnings they can make. Also, very well-known personalities of show business, who are called “Ballerini per una notte” and can often earn much higher amounts, should be excluded from this estimate. Not only that, even dance teachers can count on a very respectable ‘salary’, not inferior to that of a normal Italian manager: around 4,000 euros per episode for them, certainly a nice sum for professional dancers. For Sonia Bruganelli, the last event in Ballando was a complicated one. Before taking the stage, the former Grande Fratello commentator broke down. The song he was supposed to play (Un’emozione da poco by Anna Oxa) reminded him of a difficult moment in his past; She was eight months pregnant and doctors had diagnosed her daughter, Silvia, with a congenital heart defect. ‘This song opens up a world for me, then before we went in we talked about Silvia (her daughter, ed.). I associate this song with a period of anger. Unfortunately, at the age of 27, I experienced the greatest pain and joy at a time when I should have experienced it. The greatest and most beautiful thing you can do for your daughter is to give her life, but also to give her health, a life full of smiles, races, tears, and suddenly you realize that your daughter’s life is going to be an uphill battle. My daughter, Silvia, was born in the eighth month of her pregnancy, with a diagnosis of heart disease, due to all the negligence. I was only 27 years old. I did all the checks but fate wanted a late diagnosis and I found myself facing the last month of pregnancy and the birth of my daughter, knowing that she would need surgery.’ ‘He was a different child the moment he was born because he hadn’t had surgery yet. It was Silvia, she didn’t have the bad moving little hand, it was Silvia. I held her for five minutes, when Silvia came back it was different.’ But the commentator’s confession did not end there. ‘I chose to numb myself while I was in that hospital because I saw what was happening, what could happen. I could have lost him, I’ve seen kids who didn’t make it, he spent two months in intensive care. The first day I brought him home I was happy, he was little. I called a doctor, a pediatrician, and he said, ‘Ma’am, there is nothing different about the child.’ ‘We have to get used to this, the children are crying.’ He had an inner path full of pain and difficulty. Later, I realized that I had been accumulating judgments of inadequacy.’ And he concluded his words as follows: ‘We chose to form a common front, we were a very strong unity. This thing changed us, he (Paolo Bonolis, ed.) exorcised the demon by working, I in a different way, then life goes on. Growing up, you see kids telling you, ‘Live now.’ Sonia Bruganelli lives in Northern Rome, moved house after breaking up with Bonolis, but actually stayed with her ex-husband. ‘The episode between me and Paolo is an important one, he and I are still very close. I’m talking about colleagues who have taken a stand, assuming things have changed, and now feel much more ‘calm’. From a relationship and connection perspective, we are all the same. We live separately by a door, behind that door (he points to the door of the living room that separates the two flats; there is my daughter Silvia’s room in her father’s house, but if I open it, there is Silvia), he explained on Instagram a while ago: ‘At that time, ‘Oh, Even for those who say ‘she leaves her daughter to her father…’ the reality is different. ‘throw it away like this, you don’t show it like this. And Paolo and I did that for years.’ The producer – and current ‘Ballando con le Stelle’ contestant – has caused quite a stir. A few years ago, before her romantic breakup with her landlord became public, she announced that she was renovating an apartment where she would live with her youngest daughter, Adele. He announced that firstborn Silvia would stay with her father instead. However, it was said that the two housing units would be connected by an interior door. And so today, for the first time, Sonia shows on social media the door separating the two houses. There is a door in the living room of Bonolis’ ex-girlfriend’s new home that allows him to reach the room of 22-year-old Silvia, who suffered from hypoxia at birth, causing permanent neurological damage of mainly motor origin.