Rule 5 Saturday - Holy Cannoli - Elisabetta Canalis

This week's Rule 5 spectacular is dedicated to Elisabetta Canalis, the Sardinian actress and dancer:

Canalis was born in Sassari, Italy. . . Canalis was educated in Sassari, where she attended the "classical" highschool (Liceo classico), and then moved to Milan to study foreign languages at Università degli Studi di Milano, though she never graduated because she started to work as a dancer for Silvio Berlusconi's TV channel Canale 5 at the age of 21.

Ah, one of Berlusconi's girls. He may be corrupt, but he has great taste.

Elisabetta Canalis was a dancer on the Canale 5 TV show Striscia la Notizia from 1999 to 2002. Canalis had minor roles in the films Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Virgin Territory, a comedy produced by Roberto Cavalli. In 2005, she replaced a busy Michelle Hunziker in Love Bugs 2, the second season of the sit-com Love Bugs.
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In 2010 she played a recurring character in season 3 of the TNT series Leverage.

Elisabetta Canalis was featured in the 2003 Max nude calendar (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). That's a onea spicey meatball. . .

Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup" and links. Linked at Wombat-socho's special post-Thanksgiving food coma double-stuffed Rule 5 compendium "Rule 5 Sunday: Them Ain’t Turkeys, Them Are Ducks."