Wanna Marchi
Italian television personality, scammer and criminal (born 1942)
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- Wanna Marchi , born Vanna (Castel Guelfo di Bologna, 2 September 1942), is an Italian television personality, scammer and criminal.
- Biography Early years Born in Castel Guelfo di Bologna on 2 September 1942 into a peasant family, she is the eldest daughter of Enedina Brini (1914-1993) and Nino Marchi (1912-1957).
- Career as a teleseller She became known when she started working in radio; subsequently she made her television debut with the television program Gran Bazar, hosted by Raffaele Pisu and Marisa Del Frate.
- Starting in 1983, she hosted a program entirely dedicated to the products she sponsored, Wanna Marchi Show, broadcast in the late evening on Rete A and hosted together with her children Maurizio and Stefania Nobile.
- Her key characteristic which remained in Italian collective imagination is the phrase he shouted repeatedly to seek the assent of viewers: " D'accordo?
Wanna Marchi, born Vanna (Castel Guelfo di Bologna, 2 September 1942), is an Italian television personality, scammer and criminal.
Very popular in the eighties and nineties, she earned the nickname "queen of teleshopping", and was later found responsible several times for scams connected to her business and sentenced to various prison terms of varying lengths.
Biography
Early years
Born in Castel Guelfo di Bologna on 2 September 1942 into a peasant family, she is the eldest daughter of Enedina Brini (1914-1993) and Nino Marchi (1912-1957). Following the death of her father on Christmas Day 1957, she began working as a beautician in Ozzano dell'Emilia.
Career as a teleseller
She became known when she started working in radio; subsequently she made her television debut with the television program Gran Bazar, hosted by Raffaele Pisu and Marisa Del Frate. Between the end of the seventies and the early eighties, Wanna Marchi became noticed for the noisy telesales of slimming products based on micronized dandelion and algae extracts, with which, thanks also to her particular communication style, she had a certain success.
Starting in 1983, she hosted a program entirely dedicated to the products she sponsored, Wanna Marchi Show, broadcast in the late evening on Rete A and hosted together with her children Maurizio and Stefania Nobile. During teleshopping, she used a high, shrill tone of voice and direct, effective phrases, often containing insults, together with flashy and incisive gestures: a style that made her unmistakable, so much so that she was nicknamed the "queen of teleshopping" and "telesalesperson". Her key characteristic which remained in Italian collective imagination is the phrase he shouted repeatedly to seek the assent of viewers: "D'accordo?!" ("Agree?!").
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