A special romance brought the star together Adel Emam With his wife, Hala Al-Shalkany, where he spoke in an old video of how they met, indicating that he met her while at his friend Samir Khafaja’s house..
And he continued: “I hadn’t set marriage in my head, but I married her as soon as we started rehearsing for the “School of the rioters”. It would do me good to marry someone else”.
Adel Imam added, during his talk about his wife in a previous interview, “She was from one of the feudal lords’ families, and it was very difficult for her to marry extras, and they really didn’t agree, but she insisted, because our work depends on livelihood and fate, like workers waiting for someone to say, come, do this.” And take this, and I was penniless for two years, so she said, “We won’t get married, and we sat looking for an apartment and there was no furniture.
Adel Imam and his wife
Leader Adel Imam was born in Shah village, Mansoura Center, Dakahlia Governorate. He moved as a young man to the Al-Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood, where his father was employed in a government factory. He holds a degree in agriculture from Cairo University.
Adel Imam participated in university group performances and joined the television theater group in 1962 while still a student in the university. The roles were small, but they drew attention to his talent as a comedian. Subsequently, he presented the show “Me and He and She” in 1962 as Desouky Effendi, the agent of the lawyer with the star Fouad Al-Muhandis, then participated in the show The Swindlers in 1966 at the Al-Hakim Theater , and at The Red Pajamas show in 1967.
He presented the play The School of Rioters, which ran from 1971 to 1975, and considered his real breakthrough as a stage star, then the play Shahid Mashafesh Haga, which ran for seven years, Al-Wad Sayed al- Shaghal from 1985 and continued until 1993, and the comedy Body Guard, from 1999, and he was given leading roles starting from 1999. 1972, and became the first television star when he presented the series Tears in the Eyes of Shameless, Dreams of the Flying Boy.
At the cinema level, the artist Ahmed Mazhar participated in the film “Thieves but Cute” in 1968, then in the film Searching for a Scandal in 1973 with Mervat Amin and Samir Sabry, and Adel Imam has led the overall championship since the mid seventy to date..
Al-Zaeem has presented 8 series in the last nine years, and the beginning was with the series “Naji Atallah Band” in 2012, and after that it continued to be featured every year, such as appeared in Ramadan 2013 in the series “Al- Araf”, and “Saheb Al-Saada” in 2014, and “Professor and Head of Department.” in 2015, “Mamoun and Partners” in 2016, “Goblins of Adly Allam” in 2017, and finally “Hidden Worlds” in 2018, and finally “Valentino” in 2020.
