To Your business the protagonist of the episode of May 24, 2024 it was Elvio, a freight train driver from Celle Ligure, in the province of Savona. Flanked by his wife Manuelawith whom he has been married for twenty years, the competitor experienced an evening full of emotions and twists, which had as its common thread theunconditional love that binds the couple and some powerful life stories. Unfortunately, however, their match, although exciting, culminated in a disastrous epilogue, complete with final ‘lecture’ from Amadeus. Here’s how it went.
Your business (24 May), the emotion of Amadeus
A long-time packager (he attended 25 episodes before being selected to play), Elvio opened his evening with a touching moment, because he cared thank Amadeus for his work. “The word that comes to me is thanks to you, Amadeus, because you are a fantastic host. It’s not rhetoric” said Elvio, provoking the emotion of the conductor who replied: “Good, because they are the last episodes, I’m of an age and I am easily moved“. From the next television season, in fact, Amadeus will move to Nove and the helm of Affari Tui will pass into the hands of Stefano De Martinowhich recently signed a multi-year contract to take care of entertainment formats on Rai 1.
After fishing the package number 12Elvio and Manuela started their match proceeding quickly like a train until the first heavy red – worth 200 thousand euros – caught by Manuela in the Lombardy parcel. Despite the Doctor’s offers, which reached up to 38,000 euros, the couple decided to take a risk and continue with the game. “In recent years we have experienced really difficult times financially, I don’t want to be a martyr, but with my better half I could climb Everest naked. With her by my side I feel miraculous and very lucky, so if you feel like it, let’s refuse and move on”, Elvio told his wife, earning applause from the audience.
The powerful story of Elvio and Manuela
During the match, the couple shared details of their personal lives, recounting the difficulties and challenges they have faced over the years. “We gave up career opportunities, we chose family, children” explained Elvio. “We have been renovating our house for years, we started from one stall. She goes to the cement mixer with the bags of cement and in twenty years we have done a lot of work. I am lucky to have her by my side.” Elvio then, with tears in her eyes, also spoke about their difficult experiences in 1997 Manuela had an accident horrendous and was in a wheelchair, the doctors told her she would never walk again. She was 17 years old. Instead she had exaggerated strength and is here.” Then Elvio also spoke about himself: “I also have two titanium plates in my spine after an eight-hour operation. I’m fine now, just with a little less mobility. But I don’t want to upset anyone: we are not martyrs, we are well, we are happy and full of energy, we are here to have fun and play.”
Your business, the unfulfilled dream and the turning point of the game
The match had a fluctuating flow, with Elvio and Manuela managing to eliminate blue packages and reject several offers from the Doctor, keeping the tension high. However, the situation became complicated when Manuela – with her third call – he sent out the package worth 300 thousand euros, causing the reaction of Amadeus who underlined his “bad luck“, giving her half-joking advice: “Maybe just suggest where the reds are, so he chooses something else…”.
The match therefore reached the final straight with 3 packages still on the scoreboard: two red ones – 75 thousand and 15 thousand – and 1 blue one for 75 euros. Elvio revealed to Amadeus that he has a Amethic doubt and being torn about the next call: “17 is my wife’s and my number, it has haunted us since we got engaged. But there is also 15 which concerns a dream my daughter Nina had: one morning she told me about having dreamed of the parcel table, underneath there was a body of water and he saw in the reflection that inside parcel number 15 there was money…”. Then, after thinking about it, she decided to open on the 15th, despite Amadeus was very hesitant: “Are you sure? That dream scares me a little. Then the water, the reflected number, if there’s money there, your daughter takes away your greeting.” And he was actually right, because in the package dreamed of by his daughter there were 75 thousand euros. And so after showing the figure the host almost went in outburstlaunching into a lecture to the couple “Guys, I always say it, dreams never open! If you dream of a number, it’s not scientific, anyone can tell you that I’m talking rubbish, but I’m convinced that if you dream something, the dream is premonitory he dreamed of money, and there is money. Now that you’re back, Nina has knocked your house down!”.
At this point, Elvio and Manuela decided to try the Fortunata Region route, but unfortunately even in the “reserve game” they had no luck and returned home empty-handed, with the awareness of having missed a wonderful opportunity to put hands on a nice figure.
