Long live sincerity. On the day of the moving celebration of Toto Cutugno to Sunday Inin the living room of Mara Venier on Rai 1 a guest who goes against the trend stands out: Alba Parietti. The general atmosphere is that of festive memories, with Pupo’s video message and above all the interview with Niko, the 35-year-old son of the great singer born out of wedlock and who was close to him even during the years of his illness, a prostate tumor that ‘he passed away almost a year ago, in August 2023, at the age of 80.
And then there’s Alba, who with Toto hosted one of the liveliest, liveliest and most talked-about editions of Sunday In, that of 1992/93. There were rumors that there was bad blood between the two artists: characters who were too strong, fumantic, destined to clash in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. And Parietti, somewhat surprisingly, confirms everything with such sincere and direct tones to the point of bordering on brutality at some point. «He was an alpha male, and so was I but not like him», the Turin showgirl. «Toto had a characteristic, when it comes to pranks and surprises he would do both positive and negative ones, we say this just so as not to make a saint out of it».
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No useless caresses, in short, which Cutugno himself, someone who never sent word and who has always had a certain taste for controversy, probably would not have appreciated. «She made me do wonderful duets but I wanted them Biagio Antonacci who was just starting out and it was gnawing at him – Alba still remembers -. In the end he made us do it but what was he doing, being everyone’s friends, Biagio and I went into the studio but Toto made everyone believe we had an affair and the audience started chanting. He had a diabolical side.” «Have we ever argued? Often and like beasts for everything.” Two real Italians.
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