by Rex Wockner
Transgender former Italian Member of Parliament Vladimir Luxuria won the Italian TV reality show Celebrity Island (L'Isola dei Famosi) Nov. 24.
Viewers selected Luxuria, 43, winner of the program after seeing the contestants live for six weeks on Honduran beaches.
Luxuria, who has not had sex-change surgery and whose real name is Wladimiro Guadagno, won 200,000 euros ($260,000), half of which will be donated to UNICEF.
Luxuria served in the Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2008, representing a district of Rome for the Communist Refoundation Party.
