Michelle Rocca

Michelle Mary Teresa Rocca (born 1961) is an Irish-Italian tv host, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Ireland 1980.

Rocca attended University College Dublin studying Greek and Roman Civilization, as well as Italian and French Archaeology.

In 1988, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 with Pat Kenny in front of a worldwide audience of 600 million viewers.

Rocca began dating Arsenal and Irish International footballer John Devine when she was 17 and they were married in 1981 and lived in England.

[3] Upon Cathal Ryan's death in December 2007 of cancer, Rocca was quoted as saying, "He was a wonderful father to Claudia; he and I had a very good relationship over the past number of years and he will be greatly missed by all of us.