Who is Andrea Giambruno, the controversial ex-partner of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni?
Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she has separated from longtime partner Andrea Giambruno, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments made on air. «My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here,» Meloni wrote on Facebook. «Our paths have diverged for some time, and the time has come to acknowledge it,» she added.
The couple have a young daughter.
Television journalist Giambruno is a presenter of a news programme aired by Mediaset, part of the MFE media group owned by the heirs of the late Silvio Berlusconi, the former premier and Meloni ally. The Italian Prime Minister relationship with Giambruno lasted for about 10 years.
«My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here,» the 46-year-old Italian Prime Minister s Meloni posted on her social media account on X.
«I thank him for the splendid years we spent together, for the difficulties we went through, and for giving me the most important thing in my life, which is our daughter Ginevra. I will defend what we were, I will defend our friendship, and I will defend, at all costs, a seven-year-old girl who loves her mother and loves her father, as I was unable to love mine. I have nothing else to say about this,» she said.
The split came as the Italian media reported that Giambruno had made sexist remarks to female colleagues on TV, apparently not knowing that his comments were being recorded. On Friday, Mediaset show telecast some off-air excerpts from the show, hosted by Andrea Giambruno.
Giambruno,42, who hosts the show «Diario del Giorno», had also come under flak in August when he suggested on his show that women could avoid rape by not getting too drunk.
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