Viviana Gibelli
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Viviana Gibelli is a Venezuela
n TV show host and former beauty queen. Her father is Brazilian-Italian and her mother from Cuba
. Gibelli has two brothers and has confessed that she prefers male friendships over female since she grew up playing with her brothers.
Gibelli was selected as fourth runner-up in the 1987 Miss Venezuela
Pageant and started a career as fashion model.
She later participated in different types of television shows, beginning with Complicidades, a daytime magazine show geared towards women. Later on, she worked on children's shows and telenovela
s. In 2003 Gibelli also filmed several television shows in Costa Rica
.
She has participated in a total of five telenovelas, of which Gata Salvaje
(Wild Cat), filmed in 2002 is the only released internationally. Though she had big hits in Venezuela with El Pais de las Mujeres
(The Country of Women) and Kaina, in which she both played one of the lead female roles. She has also participated in one Venezuelan feature film.
Gibelli is now a fixture of the Venevisión
network where she had a talk show called Viviana a la Media Noche (Viviana at Midnight), as well as the Venezuelan television mega-hit La Guerra de Los Sexos (Battle of the Sexes).
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n TV show host and former beauty queen. Her father is Brazilian-Italian and her mother from Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
. Gibelli has two brothers and has confessed that she prefers male friendships over female since she grew up playing with her brothers.
Gibelli was selected as fourth runner-up in the 1987 Miss Venezuela
Miss Venezuela
The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has...
Pageant and started a career as fashion model.
She later participated in different types of television shows, beginning with Complicidades, a daytime magazine show geared towards women. Later on, she worked on children's shows and telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s. In 2003 Gibelli also filmed several television shows in Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
.
She has participated in a total of five telenovelas, of which Gata Salvaje
Gata Salvaje
Gata Salvaje was a telenovela which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela on May 16, 2002 and some days later was released on the Spanish station Univision from mid-summer of 2002 until May 2003, and later aired in Mexico on El Canal De Las Estrellas from January 2003 to December 2003...
(Wild Cat), filmed in 2002 is the only released internationally. Though she had big hits in Venezuela with El Pais de las Mujeres
El Pais de las Mujeres
El País de las mujeres was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión. It was written by Leonardo Padron and directed by Carlos Izquierdo...
(The Country of Women) and Kaina, in which she both played one of the lead female roles. She has also participated in one Venezuelan feature film.
Gibelli is now a fixture of the Venevisión
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...
network where she had a talk show called Viviana a la Media Noche (Viviana at Midnight), as well as the Venezuelan television mega-hit La Guerra de Los Sexos (Battle of the Sexes).