“Amadeus is not returning to Rai. He is a person I respect but who made a very clear and definite choice, two years ago, to leave Rai to move to other shores”: the CEO of the state TV, Giampaolo Rossi, interviewed at the Festa del Foglio in Venice, extinguishes all hope for the presenter. A cold shower after the rumors that have circulated in recent days about a possible divorce of Ama from Discovery, with the complicity of Fiorello who even hosted him on Pennicanza on Radio2 Rai, supporting the return to Viale Mazzini of his great friend and colleague.
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Rossi emphasized that now they are looking forward: “Rai has other extraordinary talents. We covered the Sanremo Festival with one of the greatest professionals of Italian television, Carlo Conti, and we brought Sanremo to the greatest historical records of Italian television. On Affari tuoi we invested, and also for the next Sanremo, in the figure of Stefano De Martino who is one of the great revelations of television, also because Stefano De Martino is not a presenter. The difference between a presenter and a showman is that the presenter needs a format, the showman often is the format himself. I believe that Stefano De Martino will be one of the great artistic resources of the future, Rai has ample room for maneuver.”
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Fiorello brought Amadeus back to Rai
In the end, friendship proves to be a more powerful feeling than many things: contracts, vetoes, recommendations,…
