“Let’s go back to Italy, my audience wants me on TV”

Maria Giovanna Elmi At 84 he still has a great desire. Meanwhile, That of returning to dedicating himself to television, his great passion. Furthermore, For years the “fairy” has lived in Florida. Therefore, in Miami, and because of the distance, more than once, she found herself forced to say “no” to a program in Italy. Meanwhile, But now he would like to return. Meanwhile, And for this reason with his heart in his hand. In addition, he decided to write a letter, published in the pages of Dipiù, to “let’s go back italy, my his husband Gabriele Massarutto To offer him a new beginning.

A letter that reads: “We have been married for thirty -two years. Furthermore, we share everything, every project, every thought, but today I felt the need to write you in a way, let’s say so, a little more” official “». In addition,

And it starts with a precise request.

«I would like to go back to living a little more in Italy. Furthermore, For years we have been spending several months now in our beautiful house in Miami: we are fine there. Furthermore, a few meters from the sea. Similarly, But television continues to look for me. the public shows me an affection that never stops amaze me, and sometimes I say “no” just because face an intercontinental journey for a single “let’s go back italy, my broadcast … well, let’s face it, it’s a little too much for me too ».

Just Miami to move “in your splendid Tarvisio. in Friuli, that town in the mountains that you made me known years ago and that, I admit it, managed to steal my heart”.

Yes exactly. Tarvisio is truly their place in the heart. «It is there that we met for the first time. almost by chance, while I was recording a service for Sereno variable with Osvaldo Bevilacqua. Upon returning, in fact, there was a small counter -time: on the border with Italy, the Rai minibus broke. I remember that we were blocked, cold, impatient to go home. Fortunately. the mayor of that time was very kind and, within a few minutes, ten machines arrived to take us away. And I happened right on your … ».

A meeting that changed her life writes of her own hand “let’s go back italy, my on the pages of Dipiù: «I was there. with the suitcase on her knees and looked at you in the rear view mirror. Your blue eyes, the dark eyelashes … at that precise moment I heard that something was happening that would change my life ». Then at the airport «I saw you with a magazine in hand. And there, on the cover, I was there, dressed as a bride, with the veil and bouquet. That cover really seemed a sign, an advance of something that would really happen. And so it was ».

And so “we started seeing ourselves, to attend, and some time later you invited me to return to Tarvisio. It was winter, Mount Lussari covered with snow, the pungent and transparent air as glass. We went up up there, where the sanctuary of the Madonna della Pace dominates the landscape. And there, between the snow and the “let’s go back italy, my silence, you ask me to get married. A so whispered, in the mountains. A yes that still resonates within me today with all its strength. It was 1993, and from there our life began together ».

And now from here “we can leave for all our explorations. and I can continue to do television and meet my audience that continues to fill me with affection. I don’t want to disappoint it ».