Thais Souza (born

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, 24 October 1985) is a Brazilian

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and

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. She was a

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in the Italian satirical series ''

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''.

Biography

Career

Thais started her career in the fashion industry at fourteen and since 2000 she took part in different beauty contest such as ''Face Summer''. She traveled to

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, where she finished high school while continuing to maintain her commitments as a model. In 2004 she was part of two advertising campaigns of TIM with supermodels

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and

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. In the same year she decided to move to

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where she worked as a model and later starred in some

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commercials. In Summer 2005 she was chosen as a showgirl for the satirical television program Striscia la news. The program was broadcast on Channel 5 and Thais gained popularity alongside

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. She worked for the program until her maternity leave in 2008. After the birth of her daughter she returned in tv and hosted the

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program American Gladiators with Pierluigi Pardo. In July 2009, Thais participated as a member of the jury (with

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and Sofia Bruscoli) in the Italian final of The Look of the Year, a beauty contest conducted by

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and

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. In 2011, Thais guest starred in the

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Favelas, bed and breakfast, that aired on

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, with the comedy duo

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. In the fall of 2012 she was the protagonist of the

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dedicated to smash Brazilian ''Eu Quero Tchu Eu Quero Tcha''.

Private life

From 2006 to 2009 she had a relationship with TV presenter

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, and in June 2008 she gave birth to a girl, Julia. Since 2010, she is in a relationship with the former correspondent of the TV program ''

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. In March 2019 she was spotted by paparazzi in Milan with a man known by the nickname 'Libo'.

References

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