It’s good, it’s bad, better this way “which will then inflate”, or not, “tell him to think again, not to leave”: at five thirty in the morning the debate on Fiorello’s fate, among the ranks of the people of VivaRai2!, It’s open. You can no longer walk on the sidewalks of the Foro Italico, there is no parking to pay for in gold: «We arrived at one in the morning, we fought to keep our place. People are pushing”, says a lady with white hair, clinging to the barrier. She comes from Bologna, others come from Jesi, Rieti, Florence, Sicily: there is also a family from Zurich.
Fiorello, the last episode of “Viva Rai2” together with Amadeus: «Here I have always been free, I’ll see you again at the next idea». The ratings and the social boom
FRIENDS
Last episode of VivaRai2!, end of a cycle: more than 2000 people live (it’s a record), Amadeus guest of his last Rai live broadcast, Jovanotti reappears for the first time in public ten months after the bad bike accident that cost him fracture of the femur and pelvis. The singer arrives at the Foro Italico with a crutch on his shoulder, a hat on his head, a cautious gait: he will sing Azzurro with Fiorello, in the finale of the episode, before leaving aboard a pink Cadillac driven by Amadeus. Fiorello extracts an announcement from him: his possible return to the stage “in the spring of 2025”. But we’ll see, after all today everyone is a bit emotional.
Biggio is, who can’t hold back his tears in front of journalists. «How do I feel? It’s like waking up from a dream», he says, and he’s not far from the truth: from today he will have to fend for himself – he and the “gang” of talents raised in the program – moving on to the cash before the Fiorello effect vanishes like a ‘illusion. Also because he, Fiorello, seems intent on stopping for real: «When will we see each other again? It could be in a year, two or never. We need a good idea to return. Help the next host on the Sanremo stage? After six festivals, the best strategy is not to return at all.” As for a program with Amadeus, «it was never really an option, it was journalistic conjecture», he says. Reiterating: «Go and visit Ama on Nove? Now I rest. If you asked me to do it tomorrow, I would say no.” Even more so since Rai (“Always been free, never received a phone call or pressure”) treats him with every possible respect. On pilgrimage to the glass, at seven in the morning, there was the president of the company herself, Marinella Soldi, the deputy director of Prime Time entertainment Claudio Fasulo, flown in specially from Eurovision, the manager Stefano Coletta, the director of RaiPlay Elena Capparelli (CEO Roberto Sergio: «Thank you Fiorello, unforgettable season»). Fiorello hugs and kisses everyone, without ever forgetting the audience behind the barriers: children in the front row, a group of people in wheelchairs, a truck passes, slows down and greets with a honk. The episode is long, “over” 15 minutes, and never so eventful: from the glass to the traffic lights, where the showman performs with Amadeus in a number on the pedestrian crossing, boarding a bus (“It was number nine”, jokes), then from the street to the Olympic Stadium. Where, alone with a piano in the middle of the deserted field, Ultimo awaits him to sing his single Altrove and Albachiara by Vasco Rossi.
THE CONCLUSION
Fiorello’s wife, Susanna Biondo, and her daughter Angelica also arrive at the Foro Italico, with a backpack on their shoulders “and then we go to school”. There is time for a few jokes (“Ama, you dream of these people at Nove”) and at 8.16 the curtain falls on the program, with the municipal police trying in vain to restore order to the place designated for the tennis internationals. There are those who peek on the glass desk, orphaned of hosts: the program lineup (just 4 pages), puppets, a fake hand, a sheep, an alarm clock with Fiorello’s face. The popular sentiment interpreted by the words on the teleprompter: “A day without a smile is a day wasted”.
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