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Ballando con le Stelle

Italian edition of Dancing with the Stars

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ23055504 ↗
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Ballando con le Stelle is the Italian version of the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the Dancing with the Stars franchise.

It was first broadcast on 8 January 2005 on TV station Rai 1. The show is aired in prime time, typically on Saturday evenings, and is hosted by Milly Carlucci with Paolo Belli and his orchestra. It is one of RAI's most important and successful programmes.

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The public source identifies “Ballando con le Stelle” as italian edition of Dancing with the Stars. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ballando, Stelle and Italian.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ballando con le Stelle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.