What will Fiorello do? For Rai, his absence would be a joke. «Meloni’s flattery? The phone call went to Giorgia…”

Rai’s problem is not that Fiorello is leaving, but that in the next season he wants to do something on TV. As for a possible “divorce” from state TV, he has continued to reassure Rai top management for days. In his way. Meanwhile he made it clear that he never belongs to a company. “I am free. My contract begins with the first episode of a program and ends with the last». The Nine – which he also very often calls the Nine, to show how in tune he is… – is not in his plans. She reiterated it for the umpteenth time to Long live Rai2!: «I want to remember that Amadeus and I are two different people. We are very good friends but everyone has their own life: I have a wife called Susanna, he has a wife called Giovanna; we have different children, I have Angelica and Olivia, he has Josè; I live in Rome, he in Milan; he goes to the Nine, I don’t». The reasoning is clear: if Amadeus changes publisher it doesn’t mean he has to leave too.

On the backstory came out on Courier signed by Fabrizio Roncone who spoke about one phone call from Giorgia Meloni to the general manager of Rai to ask that Fiorello remain in the company at any cost, the showman joked: «The phone call was made to Giorgia, It’s not like he really wanted to call». But he is flattered by the words of great praise spoken towards him: «But what have I got to do with it? “Convince him, tie him, armor him, cuddle him”, It’s a nice ego massage, but all this doesn’t hold up. Anyone who knows me knows that I have a contract – I repeat – only with that: my sofa. From May 10th (the day the last episode of Long live Rai2!) whoever wants knows where to find me: on my sofa. I rest for a long time, I’m hibernating». In short, Fiorello assures that on the horizon there is “no 4 + 5 channel, no 3 times 3, no square root of 81”. There is nothing at stake: “They are very reliable voices… mine!”.

But a question that is not at all idle remains in the background. How long will this hibernation last? In fact, Fiorello made it clear that he has no intention of repeating his morning show for a third year, which became a case study. In fact, Fiorello managed to export the television codes of the prime time variety show into a space that had never been explored in that sense, bringing Rai2 from a microscopic 1% share to an unthinkable 20%.
For this reason, it would be a tough blow for the management of Viale Mazzini to deal with if his name were not present at the presentation of the next schedule. Insult could also be added to injury. Because it cannot be ruled out that in a few months Fiorello will visit Amadeus (in Rai they should have had a prime time show in the autumn) in the name of a friendship that a different button on the remote control cannot break.