From suburban high-rise to star (the first) of men and women: “I had four bodyguards”. Then the crisis, the flight to Madrid and now the return to Milan: “I open a cryotherapy center and organize events. TV? No, pay little
Who remembers Costantino Vitagliano? Twenty years ago he couldn’t shoot alone in Italy because he feared the onslaught of female fans. He bought apartments, diamonds and cars, traveled on private planes. He had made it onto television, as a womanizer Tronista he did things that he only saw in newspapers and on television as a child, in the popular flat share in Calvairate. Today “il Costa” is 48 years old and in an interview he traces the path that led him out of nowhere into the glittering world of stars and then to the slow eclipse of the sun – photos | Video
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FROM WAITER TO TRONISTA – At the age of 16, Costantino worked in his uncle’s bar, then as a glasswasher in the club of Bolgia Umana, Enzo Jannacci and Paolo Rossi. Thanks to his body, the first jumps forward: image boy, cubist, stripper. “But I’ve never been a gigolo or a porn actor, all things they asked me to do,” he tells Corriere. The small screen doesn’t make him instantly famous. Prima does 15 years of apprenticeship: the pilgrimage to the agencies, the debut on television with Paolo Limiti, Raimondo Vianello, Fabio Fazio. And then, in 2003, the explosion in men and women, where he plays the role of the womanizer. The award-winning company Costanzo & De Filippi senses its potential, gives it more and more space and catapults it into the starry sky. Not to mention the stable of Lele Mora and her great love Alessandra Pierelli, which many thought was false: «In those 40 minutes of television everything was true. Then I had other lives, they caught me with the jacuzzi girls and on Ale live I said it was a set…».
WITH DI CAPRIO AND BEYONCÈ – This makes “Costa” a phenomenon, he is chased by women (“I traveled with four bodyguards or I would come back naked, they tore my clothes”) and is in the lists of the sexiest men alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt (“the most incredible episode of my career”). «I had apartments, restaurants, pizzerias. I bought a Bentley for 240,000 euros and Ferrari, Lamborghini. I’ve shared private rooms with Leonardo DiCaprio, I’ve dated Beyoncé and Jay Z, I’ve bought diamonds like them.”
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ESCAPE TO MADRID – But fame sends him into a crisis. “I hated hearing my name because I was all over the billboards. When I landed in Bari there were four thousand people outside and the police had to close the airport. The physicist was there, but he lost his head». In the midst of increasingly frequent panic attacks, Vitagliano moved to Spain, to Madrid.
“MY FUTURE? CRYOTHERAPY” – Today Konstantin is 48 years old. He has returned to Italy and is opening a center for cryotherapy, a treatment method based on cold, in Milan. “It’s the future, it’s good for osteoporosis, cellulite, aging,” he assures. “Then I take part in events. I’ll do a rai in prime time, but I don’t go on TV anymore because they underpay. Finally, the dig at the new stars: “Today, the idols are Tiktokers and YouTubers. But to my daughter (born from the union with model Elisa Mariani, editor’s note) I say: take out your cell phone and go on the swing »
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