Fani Stipković

Fani Stipković (born August 20, 1981) is a Croatian television reporter, host and journalist.

Early life Stipković was born and raised in Korčula on the eponymous island in Croatia, and attended Maršala Tito elementary school until the age of 14. In 1996, she moved to Croatia's capital city, Zagreb, and attended XV Gymnasium MIOC ("Education Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science"). In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb with a bachelor's degree in Television and Press Journalism.

Career In 1996, Stipković joined the jazz dance group Tihana Škrinjarić and met Sandra Vranješ, who became her agent. She began modeling in Croatia, London, Milan, and Spain for various commercials, editorials, fashion shows, and music videos. During this time, she continued her political science studies at the University of Zagreb.

In 2001, Stipković was an intern at the Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), Croatia's national television network, and was an editor for the Jutarnji List (literally "Morning Paper") and Vecernji List ("Evening Paper"), Croatia's main newspapers.

In 2005, Stipković worked at Nova TV, conducting celebrity interviews with the football player Cristiano Ronaldo, basketball player Kobe Bryant, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and tennis players Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. During this time she worked on Nova TV's In Magazine Stipković worked at RTL Hrvatska hosting exclusive interviews with various athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs as well as showcasing travel and lifestyle hot spots around the world.

In 2015, Stipković worked with FACE TV, In 2015, she partnered with Khongboon Swimwear launching the collections.

Stipković has authored articles for The Huffington Post including "What actually is success?" and "How to Drop Your Ego with Five Techniques".

In July 2016, Stipković was official TV host for Umag, doing interviews with Andre Agassi and many others athletes and celebrities. In August, she started collaborating with a Spanish production company, filming a TV story about Melania Trump and exclusive interview with Natascha Kampusch, which were broadcast on Mediaset Spain. In 2017, Stipković was guest in a special TV show on Antena 3 television in Spain about the presidency of Donald Trump. The same year Stipkovic worked as a correspondent from Spain for a sports channel from Croatia doing interviews with celebrities such as the Spain national basketball team coach Sergio Scariolo.

As a fitness and sports enthusiast, Stipković was hired to do a TV story about CrossFit. In May and June 2018, she worked as a daily live TV host for a Croatian football reality show. Stipkovic continued doing exclusive interviews for Nova TV, interviewing tennis player Novak Đokovic and football player Luís Figo.

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