The surprise announcement of Alice Mangione and Gianmarco Pozzoli, parents of the most famous “family” on the web: «We did couple therapy, but something had passed away. For a year in different houses in Milan: we have talked about it with children, now it’s up to the public. The page does not close “
Bum. The phone call begins with dry news. Alice Mangione and Gianmarco Pozzoli, husband-Moglie-Mamma-Papà of the Pozzolis Family, are no longer together. It is not simple gossip: theirs is the most famous family of the web, the one that from well before the mass landing on social media (year 2015) tells the rudeness of everyday life by earning the title of “anti-influencer” and becoming a phenomenon.
And now?
“Now let’s go on. We continue to work together, to be parents (Olivia was born in 2017 and Giosuè in 2015, ed.). But that love there, as a couple, is over. We were the traditional family, now we are the anti-transactional one in which, however, even in the separation, we will commit ourselves to looking for and telling the good side ».
Alice, 40 years old, fresh from her first theatrical tour on her own, and Gianmarco, 53, formerly column of the Zelig of the beginning, bring the work, the kindergarten, the diapers, then the school, the summer centers, the love and love online and on stage. They wanted to be the one to announce the steering in family life to the public who follows them (only on social networks almost 2 million fans). So they prepared a video that will be released today: ironic register and rooded format, cold shower included for those who saw them “forever”. Title: “The six things they ask for since we separated.” As if to say: the rupture is a fact, unappealable.
How separated? Did we lose something?
“Well yes.”
It will follow appeal with a smile only halfway: “At love you always believe it, we are still here too”. The courier told what is behind that minute of Dolceamara irony. To speak first is Alice, Bergamo of origin and Milanese by adoption (Gianmarco will intervene at the end). Everyone lives in the Portello area, first as now, with the novelty.
Alice, were you married to ..?
“I state: even married twice, in 2019. In common and then in San Candido, with party and new ceremony”.
When did you leave yourself?
«Final choice a year ago, exactly in June. We arrived after a long reflection and two years of couple therapy. Let’s say it now because before it was our family properly metabolizing the thing, we didn’t want external reactions to interfere while we were still very fragile. We took time to explain the new reality to our children, to welcome it with them. Gianma and I currently live in two different houses, not distant ».
Decision made far from the cameras, in front of which you now come back.
“Our project revolves around the family and explaining is a fact of honesty and transparency”.
What happened to Pozzolis Family? Does the page close?
“No! The New Pozzolis Family was born, where New is also in the logo. We are normal people, normal parents, a normal man and woman. We will continue to tell us, even from separate parents as in life there are many ».
What’s behind the break?
«Something that has passed away and that leaves place to another affection. We never quarreled, even in the past: perhaps it was already a signal. In the last period we did not even laugh together and for us (both comedians) it was a heavy symptom ».
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Who has decided?
“Both. Gianmarco remains in our old house, the one that can be seen on social media with the kitchen set up in the theater; I moved to a nearby apartment that fortunately we had held to rent it. The children are half with me and half with him, we didn’t need lawyers. We take some time together: at Christmas we all went to the mountains, then when we asked for two separate rooms the hotelier was amazed. Me: “He knows how he is, he Russian …” ».
Is that of the last year a less authentic narrative?
«We haven’t mentioned the fact that we are married for much anymore. We touched other themes. We had to understand ourselves, only later did the thought of what to do at work arrive. “
There is the risk of repercussions to the “brand”.
«The ongoing collaborations came to expire, we honored all the commitments and with the new ones we have slowed down. We also want transparency for those who hire us: green as it will go and we take the risk. He followed us a management agency, now we have chosen to deal with practices with some collaborators. Gianma and I remain two separate VAT games that are joined ».
How did you know you?
«I, eighteen -year -old student of theater looking for luck, had arrived from Bergamo in Milan where a kind lady rented me a chaise longue. Every evening I spent in Viale Monza at Zelig. I followed the show in the last row. He was already on stage. For years we have not endured ».
Until, he explained, he jumped into his shopping cart.
«To keep myself I was also the promoter. Once, at the Portello supermarket, I was in the lane dressed as an Elfa: I jumped in the cart because the gag foreseen it. He made purchases for a romantic dinner, instead in the end he came out with me ».
Giosuè was born in 2015.
“When he was born for a year I was at home with him. Great luck and close encounter with ferocious unemployment. They didn’t call me anymore, with the belly I didn’t go well for any part. Then I started writing about us happy parents on the verge of a nervous crisis: an audience on social media has grown gradually. “
Someone will say that breakage is a twist to increase followers.
«How not, we like to distort our life and our children. Next time I will say they kidnapped me to steal a kidney … ».
The phone call with the New Pozzolis is double, even if in deferred. After Alice, on the other house, Gianmarco intervenes. “We tried for a long time – he confirms – even with couple therapy as Alice said, yet we had to recognize that what was our strength has turned against us”.
Gianmarco, what do you allude?
«We, couple in life and on stage. The confrontation was seamlessly, then I am one who never detaches while Alice knows that there is a time that had to be alone in life ».
Who has suffered the situation more?
«Alice is resolved: it was the first to say that we were not well. Maybe I didn’t admit it. “
Do you frighten her life as a separate dad?
«It scares me to have some less time with children. And a little scares the silence at home, a house usually so noisy. I’m writing a piece on silence ».
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