Seventeen years after their first meeting Luciano Cannito And Rossella Brescia they said goodbye. The official confirmation came from the dancer and radio host, who at Courier confirmed the rumor that circulated at the beginning of July about the end of their long relationship.
The meeting at the Amici school
It’s 2007. Luciano Cannito is one of the classical dance teachers at the school of Amici, a television program created by Maria De Filippi. Rossella Brescia, who is just getting divorced from director Roberto Cenci, is a guest on the show to evaluate some challenges between the dancers. The meeting between the dancer and the choreographer in the television studios is fleeting, but Cannito is struck by Rossella’s beauty and elegance and contacts her to offer her a role in the theatrical show “Carmen”, which he is staging.
On tour with “Carmen”
The artistic partnership is the beginning of an acquaintance that soon turns into love. The long tour of “Carmen” takes Rossella and Luciano around Italy for months and the closeness, the common passion for dance and the feeling soon turn into sentiment. Cannito and Brescia, however, are good at keeping their love story private, eager to live their relationship away from gossip and paparazzi.
The first public outing
The first official photos of Rossella and Luciano come out a year after they met. It is June 2008 and the choreographer and the dancer participate together in the world premiere of the musical “Maria di Nazareth una storia che continua” in the Vatican. From that moment on, the couple shows themselves to different events together, confirming the relationship. In the autumn of the same year they attend the national preview of the show “Hairspray” at the Sistina theatre and shortly after, during the Christmas holidays, they are photographed by paparazzi in the streets of Rome more in love than ever.
The years away from the spotlight
Despite their respective commitments and joint work projects, Rossella and Luciano have never been the protagonists of gossip. The couple has always remained in the shadows, enjoying their relationship away from gossip and the spotlight. In 2012, after four years of relationship, however, an insistent rumor about a possible wedding began to circulate, but Brescia put an end to all the rumors by confessing: “The marriage It’s not part of our plans, but it’s as if we were, we gave ourselves the gift of faith“.
The pregnancy that never came
Even without the wedding, the relationship between Cannito and Rossella Brescia is solid, so much so that the couple reveals that they want a son. “I’ve been trying for a long time“, confesses the dancer in an interview with Todaybut endometriosis, which Rossella has suffered from for years, prevents her from becoming a mother. “Artificial insemination? I will try in every way and if God wills, I will soon have a child”but the dream of becoming a mother does not come true.
Declarations of love
It’s 2016. The love between Luciano and Rossella knows no crisis and the two remain far from gossip and rumors. Their feelings are so strong that the two publicly exchange important messages. “We are in love like the first day. Ours is a relationship based on sincerity, respectharmony and complicity. We talk about everything, without secrets, and we indulge in lots of healthy laughter. Furthermore, we compensate each other: while I am hypersensitive and tending towards anxiety, he is sunny and positive”, Rossella confesses to Vanity Fairwhile Cannito celebrates her on her birthday with a very sweet Instagram post: “Happy birthday wonderful woman. A beacon in the lives of many who know you. I, a privileged one”.
The announcement of the end of the relationship
Like a bolt from the blue, on August 11, 2024, Rossella Brescia announced the end of the relationship. “It happened while I was shooting a movie and I didn’t decide it, it was a shock for me.
And anyway, if Jennifer Aniston could do it after Brad Pitt left her, I can do it too,” he confessed to Courier the dancer. No statement, however, comes from Luciano Cannito, who has chosen to remain silent.