Astonishingly, Eleonora was engaged to Diletta Leotta's stepbrother Mirko Manolo before she met Ricci.
The pretty brunette regularly turns heads when she's reporting on the touchline at stadiums including the San Siro in Milan and the Allianz Stadium in Turin.
She stepped in for Diletta Leotta to present the channel's coverage of Juventus against Inter Milan.
However, in 2010 she appeared in the Miss Italia competition and it changed her life forever.
She told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "The stadium is something special for me.
