Piero Chiambretti, 68, comedian, television author and presenter, returns to Rai with a new program entitled ‘Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown’, broadcast in prime time on 14 May on Rai3. Guest at Belve tells his story.
Who is Piero Chiambretti’s ex-wife, Federica Laviosa
Chiambretti was married to Federica Laviosa. After the end of the marriage, the story ended up in court due to financial issues. The two had a daughter, Margherita, born in 2011.
Piero Chiambretti, who the daughter is and the relationship with her mother
Guest at Belve, among the showman’s various stories, a memory of his mother, who passed away 4 years ago due to Covid, is missing. And when talking about his daughter Margherita, the host says: “I wish she had something of my mother: courage, pride, seriousness, independence. I wish it looked like her.” Finally, on her absence, he comments emotionally: “I really have a feeling that I can’t understand, but it’s that of having her next to me. Even at this moment, it seems to me that she is here. I don’t know why I think this, because I’m not one of those mythomaniacs, in fact, I believe almost nothing… but I feel it here.”
Why Piero Chiambretti was “made out” by Rai
Piero Chiambretti was a face of RAI between the 80s and 200s. In an interview with La Stampa in May 2023 he said that he did not remember who “he was the executor” of his expulsion from RAI. The instigator? “Berlusconi said to himself. But then he called me to Mediaset, where I am in complete harmony with Piersilvio. I have been working there for twelve years, after fifteen years in Rai”.
Chiambretti to Belve: “Delicate situation in Rai, no denying it”
The irreverent Piero Chiambretti, after years of absence, returns to Rai and talks about himself on Belve, the Rai2 program hosted by Francesca Fagnani. On the choice to return to Viale Mazzini, going against the trend of his colleagues, Fagnani asks “do you think that Rai is the right place to be?”, and Chiambretti replies “if I have to close I hope to close well, where I started. Now it’s a delicate situation for Rai, we can’t deny it, I certainly won’t save Rai, Rai will save itself, but I’m happy to find myself in an already precarious situation, before I even start”. The journalist then asks: “does Amadeus’ farewell worry you or all in all, let’s say, does a space free up?” and Chiambretti: “I believe that if someone leaves there will be some reason… whether it is, as some say, free thought or a free market, we will leave this to those directly involved.” And then he concludes with a joke from him: “I know that in these hours even the Pope has signed for the Nove!”.
Hilarious moments when we talk about the private, or rather intimate, life of the host: from the group sexual therapies of the Seventies, to his misadventures with Viagra, up to a not very erotic menage a trois: “years ago she told of one of her menage a trois… we were two boys and a girl, and we said what should we do?”. And Chiambretti, who remembers everything, responds to an amused Fagnani, without leaving out details.
Piero Chiambretti returns to Rai: what is the new programme
“Television is curious, stuck on schedules stuck ten years ago. The presentation of the programs they make every year is a copy and paste of that of the previous year. Only conductors and work groups move. These escapes from the nest give a little spice to tired television. Many go elsewhere and repeat the same programs, with the same name: but I came back to Rai with something new.” Thus Piero Chiambretti in an interview with ‘La Stampa’ in view of his return to Rai with the show ‘Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown’, broadcast in prime time on 14 May on Rai3.
“I vote 10 for Operation Fazio. But I’ve never seen the program itself. Because I don’t watch TV, ever: it’s already too much to do it. This gives me a lot of freedom because then I’m not tempted to copy from anyone. Of course, I happened to propose a program that I thought I had invented and to be told that there had already been an identical thing on the air for ten years – he explained – They say that everything in Rai is at a standstill? I’ve been hearing this for almost forty years. It has always been like this: before the elections everything stops, like on the motorway on August 15th. There has always been subdivision, governments place their people in companies and this is the norm. This handbrake pulled on all the activities waiting for the vote is déja vu. Two of the phrases we hear the most are: ‘Let’s wait for the elections and then we’ll see’ and even more so ‘we need to see who comes’, I’ve been hearing them for thirty years”.
Chiambretti revealed that he started working on this new program “when I was still at Mediaset. Then the arrival on Raitre transformed the project a bit. More than guests, I will have ‘interventions’ by characters to tell stories of current affairs and life, much of the world of women who are the true pillars of our society. Also because I am convinced that the world of women is much more interesting than that of men – he concluded – The program is very simple, my new provocations lie in simplicity. I have provoked audiences and guests for too long. What we have in mind now is to do a public service and offer a bit of escape.”
