- Cecilia Bolocco
Cecilia Carolina Bolocco Fonck (
May 19 ,1965 ) is a Chilean television entertainer and formerMiss Universe .Early life
Bolocco was born in
Santiago, Chile to Enzo Bolocco Cintolesi, a businessman, and Rose Marie Fonck. She attended primary and secondary school atSantiago College . She then took a year ofCivil Engineering at theUniversity of Santiago, Chile , before dropping out to pursueCostume Design at INCA-CEA Institute.Miss Universe
Bolocco was selected
Miss Chile forMiss Universe onApril 20 ,1987 . OnMay 26 ,1987 she beat 67 contestants to become the first Chilean to win the Miss Universebeauty pageant that was held inSingapore that year. During her year-long reign, she settled inLos Angeles, California .After the crown
Bolocco began a television career in Chile with the show "Porque hoy es sábado" ("Because it's Saturday") on
TVN (Chile)Televisión Nacional de Chile . She then co-hosted "Martes 13" ("Tuesday the 13th") on Channel 13.In March, 1990 Bolocco married American television producer Michael Young in Santiago. The local media covered the event as if it were a royal wedding.
Bolocco moved to
Atlanta , Georgia to work as an anchorwoman for the Spanish section atCNN produced for Telemundo Network, on June, 1990. Then, she became a full fledged member of theTelemundo family where she hosted the afternoon lifestyles program "La Buena Vida" ("The Good Life"), The show was merged with another newsmagazine titled "Ocurrió así" ("It Happened This Way") and "Esta noche con Cecilia Bolocco" ("Tonight With Cecilia Bolocco") followed for which she won twoEmmy awards.She then took a starring role as the evil "Karina Lafontaine de Montero" in the Mexican
Televisa 's hitsoap opera Morelia, which was aired to more than 70 countries throughoutthe Americas , includingChile , andEurope .Around the mid-1990s Bolocco ended her relationship with husband
Michael Young . The marriage was annulled, because nodivorce law existed in Chile at the time.In 1995 Bolocco co-hosted the closing night of the 36th
Viña del Mar International Song Festival , held every year inViña del Mar , Chile.In October, 1996, already separated, Bolocco took the job as co-host in one of the shows with the highest ratings in Chilean television history, "Viva el lunes" (Long Live Monday), alongside Kike Morandé and comedian Álvaro Salas. At the same time, she had a radio show and appeared in her own television show, "La noche de Cecilia" ("The Night of Cecilia").
In February, 2000, Bolocco became an established hostess for the Viña del Mar Song Festival, with partner and long time host
Antonio Vodanovic . During this time she was romantically linked with "Viva el lunes" partner Kike Morandé, songwriter Keko Yungue, andBrazil ian writerPaulo Coelho .On
May 26 ,2001 Bolocco married former Argentine ex-presidentCarlos Menem inLa Rioja, Argentina [ [http://www.lacuarta.cl/sitios/bolocco/index.html "Cecilia Bolocco, El casamiento del año"] , "La Cuarta"] , whom she met while interviewing him at theCasa Rosada presidential house in Argentina. OnNovember 19 ,2003 , their first son, Máximo Saúl Menem Bolocco, was born in Santiago, Chile. They separated in April, 2007.In May 2007, Bolocco made tabloid headlines when she was caught on camera on her Miami residence, topless and in explicit erotic poses with Luciano Marocchino, an Italian playboy and former Miss Universe judge who coincidently was one of the judges when Bolocco was crowned Miss Universe.
ee also
*List of television presenters/Chile
References
External links
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STdNdQBd2CQ Miss Universe 1987 Opening]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ELmlR4euM&feature=related Miss Universe 1987 Top 10]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfjWcB6dTDg&feature=related Miss Universe 1987 Evening Gown Competition]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxf0al3Qe4&feature=related Miss Universe 1987 Interview]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4zRetAc94 Miss Universe 1987 Finals - Coronation of Cecilia Bolocco as Miss Universe 1987]
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