“What makes me angry? When they tell me I taste too much like sauce – she said during the broadcast – Many singers didn’t come to my Sanremo Festival due to some sort of prejudice. And one said: ‘It tastes too much like gravy.’” For the record, Clerici has for years presented the program ‘È semper midday’ on Rai 1, which in the past was called ‘La prova del cuoco’, which mainly deals with cooking.
This time the presenter mentioned the name that had been stuck in her throat for several years. “They told me, so I’ll start by saying: if it’s not true, I apologize, but if it’s true, I expect an apology from you. The singer was Ligabue, I did everything to have him at my festival, I liked him a lot, I imagined her and I going away on a Harley Davidson and I was disappointed, coming from him that thing is even more serious. We both know about sauce, he’s a nice big man, a little rough”.
The rocker’s reply was not long in coming and arrived via social media, with a video: “Dear Antonella Clerici, obviously I have never said something like that, certain phrases don’t belong to me… Dear my Antonella, no. I never said you taste like gravy. Sorry if I smile but this is really too absurd stuff. If I said no to several editions of Sanremo it’s because Sanremo gives me a lot of tension and I prefer to make music in contexts where I feel more relaxed. The reason is that. I’m sorry that someone invented something like this but I’m even more sorry that you didn’t try to clarify things with me and held back this stupidity for so long. However, I heard you say that you would have apologized to me if this hadn’t been true, so I accept your apologies and I hug you.”
