Rome, 10 May 2024 – A Beijing Express 2024 Damiano Carrara, former TV star of Real Time, competing with his brother Massimiliano. Second is the couple Italy-Argentina formed by the fencer-turned-influencer Antonella Fiordelisi with Estafania Bernal. Nothing surprising, everything in line with the historic spirit of the most cynical, egotistical, anxiety-provoking program à la Miccio and Cabello, except that for the first time this year in the Sky reality game all the contestants – with the exception of for Damiano and Massimiliano _ they have created an unprecedented way of facing the various challenges, often choosing to help each other, and not to fiercely oppose each other.
It happened from the beginning, when non-strategic but “heartfelt” alliances were woven like the one between, for example, Fabio and Eleonora Caressa or “I Caressa” and Megan Ria and Maddalena Svevi, the very young “Le Ballerine”. Solidarity and spirit of travel for the journey embodied, despite ups and downs, also by the couple Fratm (ex “Mare Fuori”) Artem and Antonio Orefice, and even by the couple Friends (third place) the two surprising Maddalena Corvaglia and Barbara Petrill or, who turned out to be, despite their status as beautiful blondes and just TV celebrities, strong but also sensitive and generous women, perpetually listening to others.
In the entire edition of the “Route of the Dragon” Damiano, in particular, never even tried, for a single moment, to conceal his irrepressible will to win, over everyone and against everyone: in the throes of disappointment if not anger, he publicly mistreated his brother Massimiliano (which was actually his personal “rock”), just as he did not hesitate to eliminate his elective “brother” Fabio Caressa right at the end of the episode in which, given the exchange of members of the competing couples, he confided to the husband of his “Bake Off” partner Cristina Parodi how important and even emotionally touching his presence at her side had been.
Anything but sweets. Incorrect use of the telephone that the production had put in their hands for different purposes in a test and in the same episode an attempt to “theft” a passage already assigned to the couple who had helped them shortly before. THE Pastry chefs Not they spared the low blows to their opponents, and they always put their own “victory” strategy before the instinct or interest in knowing the people who hosted them along the journey, explicitly worrying not about creating the sincere contact first empathetic with the inhabitants of the places they found themselves visiting in the evening and at night along the “Dragon’s Route”, but to have been assured by them of passage to the next stage, the next morning.
The 2024 edition ends leaving three questions: what on earth is RAI still waiting for to call Costantino Della Gherardesca to host and be the artistic director of the next Sanremo Festival? What does this have to do with Beijing? Maybe a little, but with the great show, the wisdom and the irony, a lot. But above all: how sweet Cristina will avenge Damiano’s “betrayal” in the next edition of “Bake Off”?
