«I remember once in the car. One made a compliment to Giovanna – Civitillo, his wife – and I did a truly terrible thing Starsky & Hutch: I accelerated, skidded and cut him off. I got out of the car as if to say “I’ll pump you up now”. Giovanna screamed “no no no!”». It is part of the story that Amadeus entrusted to Diletta Leotta for the podcast Amateur mom. The host, at the center of the news for his farewell to Rai after yet another record-breaking Sanremo, was interviewed with his wife Giovanna at his side. And she also admitted that she was jealous of her partner: «We have always been jealous – said Civitillo -. However, I am a rational jealous person, he is completely irrational. Nobody could even say hello to me, now he’s improved a lot.”
The host explained that he is a “fiery” type and that he “forgets”, at times, that he is a public figure. However, over the years the jealousy has gradually weakened: «Maybe there was jealousy more at the beginning. I have to say no afterwards, because it is well established that we are a couple and therefore it is clear that there is respect from everyone. At the beginning, when we didn’t know and someone maybe made a little provolone…”. This is where the anecdote about the stunt committed by Amadeus while driving began. Which, however, ended with a happy ending: «At a certain point, this guy came down who hadn’t understood and says “oh Ama, hi!” and he disarmed me. I mean, at that point he was so cute with this smile and I said “hi” and he said “shall we take a photo?” We’re talking about 20 years ago.”
