Become Enrico Papi it wasn’t easy. «My dad didn’t want me to do this job, he dreamed of something safer. My mother on the other hand was more modern, she was my biggest fan. To prove to my father that I could do it, I started opening concerts in the squares.” But one day, he still tells the Milanese newspaper, «I accidentally overheard the words of the manager who hired me: this Papi isn’t funny at all, but when he’s around it never rains, it’s good luck. I was very disappointed.”
Legend says that Enrico Papi was discovered by Magalli. «In reality, I was the one who invaded his room, he had an office with a window on the ground floor, I knew that he was preparing Fantastico Bis and was looking for someone to do the candid cameras. I entered directly from the street, from the window, to propose myself.”
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His career continued with gossip. But it was great luck, he tells Corriere della Sera. First with Chiacchiere, a gossip program broadcast after the night’s Tg1. Then the turning point: «It worked and I was lucky that Berlusconi slept little: he saw me at night and contacted me to have me at Mediaset. In 1996 Papi daily was the turning point of my career.” Some pie in the face from Bonolis and Andrea Roncato that hurt him, with simple words, it was Mike Bongiorno who said: “Everyone hates you”.
«What a pain… I was hiding in a hotel during the Sanremo Festival hoping to see him with some woman. But nothing. I edited a playful report, with his press office entering his room, he got very upset. Looking back, perhaps I had exaggerated.”
Mrs. Ciampi even called him an idiot, recalls her colleague Renato Franco of the Corriere della Sera: «I was naive. I was at Sanremo hosted by Raffaella Carrà. She told me to do an irreverent After Festival, the risk of making a mistake was high.”
With Raffaella Carrà he remembers great games of cards, of tresette, he also remembers the success achieved with Sarabanda: «At the beginning it didn’t take off, we had ratings based on the telephone area code. They gave me one more week. I was desperate. We made some small changes and it began to grow dramatically. I sweated it out.”
Al Corsera also talks about Maurizio Costanzo as his best man at the wedding. «When we met he was wary, I forced him to say Buona Domenica and at the beginning we called each other on a formal note. Then a very strong personal relationship was born, despite the differences: one day he told me we had a meeting at 7. I thought it would be in the evening, but it was in the morning. And Ilary Blasi? «No arguments at all. They talked about it on social media, but I don’t believe much in social media.”
For fun he takes shirtless selfies on Instagram and has always declared himself to be fluid despite never having fallen in love with a man. «I have always thought that this distinction between the macho man who must never ask and the fragile woman who must be saved makes no sense. I could fall in love with a man or a woman in the same way, never having had any kind of foreclosure.”
Last question on the alleged love story with Valeria Marini. «I love Valeria very much, but I have memories of the goldfish».
Meanwhile, he has been married to Raffaella Schifino for 26 years. But in this case: no gossip! «We support ourselves: each of us has more defects than qualities and to be together we must be able to appreciate the defects above all. Our union doesn’t make the news, even though it really should: two people who have been together for 26 years resembles a perversion.”
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