Daniela Cicarelli

Daniela Cicarelli has been a model since age 12 and won the Elite national competition at 14. She attracted attention in Brazil in early 2001 due to a Pepsi TV commercial and became very well known. In 2002 she was already as popular in Brazil as Gisele Bündchen and had several commercial deals and has modeled for Cia Maritima and Victoria's Secret. In 2003 she began hosting a summer show for MTV Brasil, working in other shows on that channel since then. That year, Cicarelli started dating football player Ronaldo. This made her widely known in Spain leading her to command fees ten times higher for appearing at fashion events. In 2003, she signed with MTV to present shows on the channel, including one about makeovers. In 2003, Fica Comigo, a dating show which was MTV Brasil most popular show (and made Fernanda Lima, the host, famous), was canceled because Fernanda didn't want to renew her contract with the channel. So in 2004 MTV started producing another dating show, Beija Sapo (Kissing Frogs) and Daniela was chosen to host.