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'The Sopranos' actor proud of new bod

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Published: Dec. 30, 2005 at 7:18 PM

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Actor Joseph Gannascoli, who plays gay mobster Vito Spatafore on "The Sopranos" is a shadow of his former rotund self.

"I'm down 160 pounds," he told Friday's New York Post. "I had stomach surgery -- not the bypass, the band. And I've been exercising. Diet pills help, too. I feel a lot better."

Gannascoli co-wrote a cookbook/novel with Allen C. Kupfer, which comes out Jan. 10.

"A Meal to Die For" is "about a chef who gets mixed up in the mob and becomes a food fence, like hijacking shrimp, bootlegging olive oil, things like that," Gannascoli told the newspaper. "I did stuff like that when I was younger."

The book will be accompanied by a line of pasta sauces called "A Sauce to Die For," he said.

Topics: Vito Spatafore
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