Arbana Osmani facts for kids

Arbana Osmani (born 7 May 1983) is an Albanian television presenter and radio personality, best known for presenting Big Brother Albania.

Career

She started her career in 2000 as a journalist for the Intervista magazine. Later she started working for Top Albania Radio, first as a radio presenter for shows like Top Select in 2002.

Later she went on to work in television at Top Channel, she presented for four seasons the popular show Top Fest, together with other TV presenters such as Ledion Liço, Xhemi Shehu, Alban Dudushi and Evis Mula. She has also presented other shows like Pasdite në Top Channel, E diell, 1001 pse?!, an entertainment children's show and other shows.

For 7 editions in a row, from 2008 until 2014, Osmani presented Albania's most watched reality show, Big Brother Albania. In 2013 she confirmed that Big Brother would go on hiatus for a year. She was then working on her cooking book. However, Big Brother returned with a seventh season on 22 February, 2014, with Osmani returning as well as the host of the show. She did not return for the eighth season, due to pregnancy. The main host was Ledion Liço. Osmani returned to the show as a presenter for its ninth season.

In 2015–2016 season, she presented for one season the game show Në 1 javë. From 29 October, 2016, and for 5 seasons she presented the show Dua te te bej te lumtur on Top Channel.

On 17 August, 2021, Osmani announced on her Instagram account that she would be presenting the celebrity version of Big Brother VIP Albania, that began airing on 5 October 2021 on Top Channel. Due to satisfactory ratings of the first season, Top Channel announced a second season of Big Brother VIP, which began airing in December 2022, with Osmani being the presenter of the show.

In 2022, Osmani made an appearance as herself on the film Sophia.

Osmani hosted the 61st edition of the annual Albanian music competition Festivali i Këngës on RTSH.

TV shows

• Top Select (Top Albania Radio)
• Top Fest (Top Channel)
• Pasdite në Top Channel (Top Channel)
• E diell (Top Channel)
• 1001 pse?! (Top Channel)
• Big Brother Albania (Top Channel) – seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
• Në 1 javë (Top Channel)
• Dua te te bej te lumtur (Top Channel)
• Big Brother VIP (Top Channel) – seasons 1 and 2
• Festivali i Këngës (RTSH) – edition 61

Personal life

Osmani was in a relationship with Ardit Kero for 16 years. They have a son, Joni.

Osmani met musical director Eduart Grishaj in 2019. They have a son, Diell (born 2020), and a daughter, Zoi (born 2022).