Beautiful Game Show HostessCaer TV Selections1 min 50 sec - Oct 2, 2006Elisabetta Gregoraci began her career as a dancer for the Italian TV show 'Libero' before replacing top model Eva Herzigova for the Wonderbra campaign. Salvatore Sottile was the powerful spokesman for the former foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, who leads the far-Right Alleanza Nazionale Party, and was a leading member of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition. While intimately tied to the Savoy saga, more interesting to most Italians has been the discovery that - according to leaked transcripts of his conversations - Sottile, 60, arranged jobs for promising young television starlets in return for sexual favours. Some of the sexual "concussione" (bribes) involved are alleged to have taken place in Berlusconi's personal office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome's equivalent of Downing Street. The revelations emerging from the investigation eclipsed even coverage of Italy's progress to the second stage of the World Cup. Two of the women involved with Sottile have been named as Maria Monse and Elisabetta Gregoraci, the latter the latest flame of the Formula One Renault team director, Flavio Briatore. Miss Gregoraci, 26, was a beauty queen before she moved into television, where she now appears on prime-time game shows. Elisabetta Gregoraci admitted: "I had sexual relations with Salvatore Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places." She and Monse, another game show hostess, have been identified as the "first class sluts" whom Sottile and a friend at the state broadcaster, RAI, were taped discussing. In his conversations, Sottile boasted to his chauffeur and to his friends of sexual exploits with both women, and claimed that he had found them television jobs. The allegations have shaken the Alleanza Nazionale, and Fini has so far backed Sottile. He is said to have told the prosecuting magistrate John Henry Woodcock, a Somerset-born lawyer who works in Italy, that the conversations were just "male bravado." But Woodcock is said to have countered by producing a statement taken from Gregoraci during a secret interview last month. She is said to have admitted: "I had sexual relations with Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places."