Miss Italy 2015
Alice Sabatini was crowned Miss Italia 2015 on Sunday evening by Roman actor Claudio Amendola during a live TV broadcast hosted by Simona Ventura.
Sabatini, 18, is from Montalto di Castro in the province of Viterbo, about 90 km northwest of Rome, and is the first Miss Italia from the region of Lazio since the year 2000.
Miss Italia, first broadcast on the radio in 1950, has tried to address feminist concerns since its first live TV show in 1987.
Starting in 1990 the chest, waist, and hip measurements of the contestants have no longer been judged, and in 1994 the contest was opened to married women and mothers.
The 1987 winner was disqualified when it was later discovered she was married.
In 1996 Denny Mendez, originally from the Dominican Republic, became the first black Miss Italia before finding TV success and getting a small role in Ocean’s Twelve.
Among the other participants who achieved later success in cinema and entertainment, most of whom did not win the competition, are: Silvana Pampanini, Sophia Loren, Lucia Bose’, Stefania Sandrelli, Ventura, Anna Falchi and Martina Colombari
