The love story between Paola Barale e Raz degan It was one of the most talked about in the 2000s. She successful showgirl, he is the Israeli model from the Gyanish heart meet and it is immediately passion. Together they will travel the world by avoiding the curiosity of the public and the paparazzi up to the crisis due to a betrayal, which has forever cracked the relationship ended definitively in 2015.
The meeting at a dinner
It is 2002 and Paola Barale and Raz Degan already know each other. They are not two strangers and their fame precedes them. But the real meeting, what will bind them for over a decade, takes place in the spring of 2002. Paola is fresh from separation from Gianni Sperti (with whom he was married three years) but from a professional point of view Barale lives a golden moment. Heads Baudo on the show “Number one “leads “A record for the summer “ And it is in the cast of “Those that football “. One evening it is invited to dinner From some friends and at the table he is next to Raz Degan. The Israeli model talks to her for the whole evening of an English DJ with whom she fell madly in love and listens to him. However, Raz is fascinated by the showgirl and the numbers exchange the numbers. It is the beginning of a attendance that the two, however, do not want to call.
The escape to Bali away from gossip
Raz hates clichés and calling himself “boyfriend” does not excite him. He and Paola declare they are friends and travel a lot. The couple decides to fly to Bali to take an adventurous journey between jungle, culture and sea away from the indiscreet attention of the press, which however chases them. In the summer of 2002 the first photos of Paola and Raz came out who loving under the palms of the Thailand And in Italy the case bursts. Guest of Mara Venier a “Sunday in ” Immediately after the summer, Paola reveals: “I had already separated from my husband, but I didn’t want to make these things public. I was sorry for him even if we had left ourselves in mutual agreement“.
Cocaine and accusations
During their first summer together, however, an unpleasant episode also happens that ends them in the center of the news. The couple is on the island ofElba In the house rented by the showgirl together with some friends and in the home, during a police inspection, some grams of cocaine. The drug belongs to a person in the party. “I am used to trusting people as I could know that one of them had it. The thing was magnified “, He will tell Paola months later in “Domenica In”. But in the meantime the couple ends up on trial and will be acquitted of accusations only years later.
Around the world far from TV
Paola Barale decides to follow Raz around the world by putting her profession aside. In 2003 he leads only “A record for the summer“Then leave Italy for months for travel with degan in the East and South America. During the long months away from Italy Paola and Raz collect video material to make their first docu -reality – “Private movie“Which in 2004 was broadcast by Italia Uno – who wants to tell their life away from the spotlight between exotic trips and passion.
The return to TV on good Sunday
Gitana life does not suit Paola Barale who, after two years of distance from television, decides to return to the small screen as a fixed presence of “Happy Sunday” On Canale 5. Between 2005 and 2006, Paola returns to cheer the public with his verve and professionalism and also recites in the short film “Broadcast ” by Laura Chiossone. At the first of the film in Rome, the showgirl takes the red carpet with his boyfriend Raz Degan alongside a rare public appearance.
Yet another escape from Italy
From 2007 to 2008 Paola and Raz leave Italy again to discover other mysterious places around the world. The Israeli model feels the need to travel and stay away from everything and everyone and Paola, despite the proposals of Work There is no lack, he decides to give up everything once again to follow his partner in his adventures. But the idyll does not last long.
Betrayal with Kasia Smutniak
It is 2008 and Raz Degan is contacted to interpret Alberto da Giussano in “Barbarossa“, Film by Renzo Martinelli. The Israeli accepts and reads next to his colleague Kasia Smutniakwhich in the film is Eleonora the beloved of Alberto. The passion recited on the set becomes concrete and far from the cameras the two have a flirtation. But she is married to Pietro Taricone And Paola Barale is still Raz’s girlfriend. Both discover they have been betrayed From the pink press, which publishes the photos of the hot dances that the two actors exchange in the pool of a villa rented by the production of the film. “I linked my hands, avoiding to go looking for that there, which sooner or later I will meet on the street and unpacked his nose“, He will tell Taricone years later talking about Kasia’s betrayal with Raz. Paola Barale instead does not make statements but takes the distances from Degan and returns to TV to overcome the pain.
The crisis and the return to television
At the end of 2008 the showgirl returned to Italia1 as a correspondent in South Africa of the third edition of the reality show “The mole “ conducted by Paola please and then shoot the movie “Glance“by Sergio Rubini. The following year in 2009 he is sworn from the reality show”Do you want to dance with me? “ On Sky. Although they are not often seen together, Raz and Paola continue to see each other even if the newspapers speak of crisis and of betrayal never overcome by the Barale. In 2010 the serene in the couple seems to have returned, because Paola denies the end of her story with Degan, which is a “Dancing with the starsAnd “as a competitor:”It’s not true, my story with Raz is not over “.
The announcement on Facebook: “It’s over”
From 2010 to 2014 Raz Degan and Paola Barale live a particular relationship made of ups and downs. For everyone they are not together and paparazzi struggle to photograph them together. The two continue to conduct two separate lives, but on some worldly occasions hand show hands in hand. In 2015, however, the official press release of the end of their report came. Paola publishes it on Facebook: “Raz and I have decided to take different paths for now. It happens, in life, at a certain point. It is not fair to be satisfied with a feeling who has lost of liveliness and color. Now I can split my hair in front of my eyes. Everything can always happen“.
The Island of the Famous and the return of flame
In 2017 Raz Degan agreed to participate in the twelfth edition of “The Island of the Famous“And during participation, the production invites Paola Barale. The showgirl not only goes to the episode, but it flies even overseas to surprise the ex -boyfriend. On the island Paola remains a few days and between kisses and tenderness it seems that between the two former companions there may be a return of flame. Even Barale seems to believe it, but once he returned to Italy as a winner of the reality show, Raz will not be alive with her.”Never seen or heard more“Confesses the guest showgirl of” Domenica in “in 2019. And there disappointment It is many.
Years later, in 2020, Paola Barale reveals: “I made the decision, but I was brought to the hair“The showgirl suggests that she would have liked to marry Raz but the” yes “never came. Today she declares herself single but happy, Degan instead lives a relationship with the Stuart model for about three years.