The powerful entertainment agent, fresh from his professional break-up with Amadeus, spoke at the Dogliani TV Festival
“Amadeus? I respect him very much, but he did something that you don’t do even if a person has really hurt you“. As Lucio Presta he opened his speech at Dogliani TV Festival. The famous (and powerful) entertainment agent is a river full of vitriolic statements, anecdotes and barbs. At the center of the sights, needless to say, is the host of the latest Sanremo Festival, with whom relations now seem irretrievable. “When presenting the New Year’s Eve broadcast in Calabria, he said something that I couldn’t accept: ‘Presta knows what he did’. Words that hurt me, because my honor was at stake. This is why I decided to publicly talk about certain behaviors of his. And noI have not read any corrections to what I said,” reveals Presta.
The rivalry with Beppe Caschetto
There was no shortage of jabs at his old rival, Beppe Caschetto. While recognizing its primacy in terms of power (“He is more powerful than me, he is left-wing, instead I pissed off the right, the center and the left”), Presta underlined how the relations between the two are much more cordial than “what one might imagine”, however, he couldn’t help but throw a dig : “When my artists did the Sanremo Festival they always called yours. While the opposite has never happened. When his artists hosted Sanremo, he never took any of mine… perhaps they weren’t adequate. But I say this without controversy. Sometimes I raised him some promising young people which then passed to him, like Stefano De Martino”.
The Stefano De Martino issue
And the former dancer of Friends was therefore the subject of discussion: Presta actually spoke about the passage of Stefano De Martino to Caschetto’s team. “His move to Caschetto’s team? I said what I had to say to Stefano. We met one day at a presentation of the schedules. I said to him: ‘Whoever cheats once always cheats in life’. It will happen to others, it will happen again.”
The future of Barbara D’Urso
Another hot topic was Barbara D’Urso’s future on television. “Why hasn’t Barbara D’Urso returned to TV yet? It’s a very complicated story. It wouldn’t be a title, but a seven column. I’m sure that Barbara’s time will soon return“, Presta said. When asked which channel she might return to, she replied: “I make use of the right not to answer. If we have already signed? No. Now Barbara is enjoying her granddaughter”.
The manager shared various episodes from his career, including why he had Heater Parisi’s salary seized, his former client: “I was his first fan, I lived in his house, there was great complicity,” he said. After the broadcast “Beloved enemy” with Lorella Cuccarini, Parisi published a photo of his deceased ex-wife with an unacceptable sentence. “In life I know how to wait, occupying my time with many things”. There was no shortage of stinging criticism, such as the one addressed to Antonio Campo Dall’Ortor, defined as “the worst general director in the history of Rai. He is on TV like I am on nuclear astrophysics.” Finally, Presta recalled a teaching he received from Andreotti: “If you help someone, you will have 100 angry people and one ungrateful person.”
