Enrico Mentana breaks the silence and replies to Lilli Gruber. Yesterday evening, in fact, the journalist opened the episode of Half past eight with a controversy over the delay, harshly teasing his colleague and director of the La7 news program for having exceeded the deadline. After the initial silence, Mentana decided to respond to the presenter in the morning, publishing the ratings of her news program and “distancing himself from rude people”. Let’s find out what happened And What he said.
Enrico Mentana: Lilli Gruber’s controversy
Yesterday Monday 6 May 2024 Lilli Gruber opened the episode of Half past eight with a controversy, directing vitriolic words at Enrico Mentana. In fact, her talk show received the live line with more than a quarter of an hour delay and the journalist didn’t spare a single word broadside towards the colleague (“Good evening and welcome at 8.46pm, not at half past eight or half past eight, but incontinence is a bad thing. Sorry for this delay”). The tensions at La7, however, they certainly didn’t end up here.
The answer
This morning Enrico Mentana he decided to break the silence and has answeredalbeit indirectly, to the heavy attack of Lilli Gruber on social media. The director of News La7 he in fact published on Instagram i ratings data from his news program yesterday and he vented. “From one to nine percent in half an hour. This is the audience curve – completely similar to those of previous days – of the La7 news last night, marked by important and continuously updated events” explained Mentana, replying in kind: “However, that news program was unpredictably followed by a grossly contemptuous judgment towards me by the person hosting the next programme, who is also the direct beneficiary of that ascending curve every evening.“.
Rumors of his farewell to are denied A7 and of a possible interest of Nineso, Enrico Mentana he has to deal with an internal controversy in Urbano Cairo’s network and he certainly didn’t hold back, teasing Lilli Gruber in turn: “A judgment from which so far no one among the La7 leaders has felt the need to distance themselves. Small episode, but very indicative. At this point, as is right, I distance myself from the rude and the lazy“.
