Fiordelisi eliminated (“because of” the mother): voice 9
The unthinkable has happened. Antonella Fiordelisi was eliminated with 8.1% of the televoting preferences. During the week, mother Milva posted an “open letter to Pier Silvio Berlusconi” on her daughter’s Instagram profile, in which she asked, among other things, Vippona fans to get her out of the house because of the obvious (?) emotional state of decompensation, in who poured it. A defeat that therefore smacks of victory for the curly-haired influencer: not even Chiara Ferragni, who asked her followers to vote for Fedez via social media, managed to lead him to triumph in Sanremo 2021. You don’t mess with that, Fiordelisis. And that’s pretty concerning, even considering that as soon as she came out, the girl was greeted by an entire studio with their heads bowed in adoration, christening-style Simba in The Lion King. With Alfonso Signorini in the role of Rafiki. Antonella was certainly, for better or for worse, a great protagonist of this edition. The point is that in a just world she would not have had time to become one. We are not writing this out of personal dislike. From day zero, Fiordelisi was allowed to do good and bad weather in the house: she indulged in horrific behavior without ever making a reproach, which columnist Orietta Berti didn’t occasionally come up with. On the contrary, she has been “rewarded” with XXL blocks for every live broadcast so far. As if she hadn’t pretended to be physically assaulted by her fellow house elf, the disqualified Edoardo Donnamaria, for example. Despite all the molestation and mothering scenes she’s become the capricious interpreter of, she’s arrived one step away from the semifinals. Holy elimination we actually encourage full marks. It just had to happen much sooner. We will atone for the visibility and power that she has gained in the last six months for the next few years. She did not deserve it. And neither does the public.
Dal Moro disqualified (but what does Oriana have to do with it?): 4.5 points
During the week Daniele Dal Moro was disqualified for a very direct match. The reason? Vippone happily quarreled with his (non)girlfriend Oriana Marzoli: she tried several times to deprive him of the foundation, he angrily withdrew. Until he caught her by forcing her to throw away the creepy facial tissue. The clip, which went viral on Twitter, was not shown in the episode, again due to the rhetoric of “pictures too strong for prime time”. Vippone, bound by a contract that doesn’t yet allow him free speech, promises fire and flames via Instagram and is so at odds with the authors that he refuses to post a video message for “his” baby K from Caracas. In doing so, she suffers. And Alfonso Signorini does everything he can to incite a feeling of guilt (which, of course, he shouldn’t have). “You say you were joking, but Daniele was also eliminated because of your reaction,” he teases her. “After the incident you told Tavassi that you didn’t like the joke because Dal Moro grabbed you too tight. These are serious accusations, words have weight, Oriana,” says the conductor. “Actually, I just said that Daniele can’t joke because he always took my make-up off and never gave me the opportunity to do it to him,” explains “Bebè”. Alfonso Signorini changes the subject. “I don’t want to dwell too long on this subject, we’ve already talked about it too much,” he added. Of course we were only at the beginning of the episode and there were still at least 27 blocks to be broadcast on Antonella Fiordelisi, also in the VAR version, until good night. What bitterness.
Happy Baby Nikita (although not a finalist yet): Vote 8
In a climate of flimsy disqualifications and fear of Pier Silvio, the only ray of sunshine goes by the name of Nikita Pelizon. Actually, she is not a saint. Vippona never misses an opportunity to show his forked tongue. At the same time, she is one of the few who really knows how to give good advice. When Fiordelisi was crying and screaming for not becoming a finalist last Thursday night, at one point he took her aside and said: “Look, it’s okay, but now stop acting like a seven-year-old girl.” Thank you very much. Previously avoided by roommates like Scabies, the “pack” ended up bowing to the power of the influencer with a greenish balayage. It is not known whether, out of calculation or authoritarian compulsion, they “decided” to organize a wonderful birthday party with a gift: fluorescent unicorn-shaped pajamas. Then the fireworks in her honor, only St. Peter was missing to open the gates of paradise on earth to her. Surreal considering no one spoke to her until four days ago. In fact, even the always effusive Oriana Marzoli had cropped it out of the souvenir photo during her birthday house party. Not bad, Nikita enjoys it and the production surprises her with a video message from her sister who is four months pregnant. It won’t be an official finalist just yet, but like it or not, Pelizon has already won. Without going through the inconvenience of having to saddle up some beef to talk about it. Always good.
Giaele third finalist (by no logic): Vote 4
The new editorial line imposed by Pier Silvio Berlusconi on the reality show has claimed several victims. First the disqualified Edoardo Donnamaria and Daniele Dal Moro. In this forty-third episode, however, he also chose his first (or already second) miracle cure. In fact, televoting crowned a finalist, Giaele De Donà, who surprisingly even surpassed Nikita Pelizon in terms of approval rating (48.2% vs. 24.7%). Not bad for a competitor who had brought home a zero point literally four days ago, always in televoting. What has changed in such a short time? Nothing. Apart from the fact that “you want to be there where you can”, Giaele must have been seen as a worthy competitor in the final. After a rather loud first two months, in which she became the protagonist thanks to the much-touted free love affair with her American tycoon husband Brad, Vippona has all but disappeared from the radar. So much so that she almost never managed to capture a single block during the two weekly live broadcasts. More than one who doesn’t follow the daily newspaper will surely have wondered if it was still in play. Then suddenly a finalist. We wonder whether it would not be a work of admirable consistency to revive the good George Ciupilan at this point, in order to reserve a place of honor for him and his stoic silence in the finale as well. But the moment Giaele saw his mother, who suffered a stroke at the age of 24, was very moving. There’s just one problem: her story has been told very little to promptly prioritize the Fiordelisi-Donnamaria love affair. Does it make sense only now, two episodes before the end, to deepen characters that were previously treated like dusty bedside tables? Absolutely not. But that’s the new editorial line, beauty.
De Pisis is a warrior (but he could have told us earlier): Voice 6
Albert DePisis. No one remembers when he entered the house, most people will surely have trouble connecting that name back to an exact face. Nevertheless. However, always following the new “edifying” and never kitschy editorial line, the authors have chosen to give Vippone a place he had never been given before. Once again we have to reiterate that two episodes from the finale, this change in focus and storytelling is ridiculous on multiple levels. But so be it. So let’s get passionate. The platinum blonde version of Tommaso Zorzi is called into the confessional by Alfonso Signorini for an intense story about his own troubled past: bullying between beatings and teasing at school because his classmates saw him as “different”, his first love at 16 with Gaetano “which made me realize that I wasn’t denied the kind of luck I thought I would have had”, that I never really felt accepted by my parents, “who wanted me to become a business clerk and then a bank clerk”. Instead, De Pisis took a “train of desire” to break into the world of fashion he dreamed of. “I’m a warrior, I never gave up, not even when I had cancer,” he proudly says. All of this in the five-minute block, a stone’s throw from the end credits of the issue. Too bad there wasn’t six months of reality TV to tackle all of these topics one-by-one live. Real?
Berti Superstar, Berti Rock’n’Roll: Voice 8.5
Promoting Orietta Berti with flying colors is always a duty. But above all a pleasure. Aside from her bizarre crush on Luca Onestini (who proved tonight that she believed Elton John was a member of the Beatles), she’s the consummate expert. At least if he finds the strength to hold his nose and stretch his leg to intervene in the advancing swamp. From day one he has been in open opposition to this issue’s protégé, Antonella Fiordelisi. More against the current than a runaway salmon, he never let her go half or nearly through. Even tonight, on the eve of the surprise elimination, she hasn’t left her tortellini shotgun at home, and here she shoots a perfect definition of Vippona: “I’ve always given you advice, at most saying you’re rude. Your parents got back at me with some very nasty vulgarities over social media. So I already know why you’re the way you are, you don’t have to explain it in front of the cameras.” Twitter has literally exploded in flavor like a crescentina stuffed with squacquerone. The capricious influencer dabbled in the rhetoric, “I made myself, unlike the others here who all have relatives who already do TV,” but there was no way to defend. “I know you, I’ve read your full bio: How about an Instagram Having a profile?” asks Orietta, hurt. And then he sinks in: “I’ve always tried to remind people that it takes respect for the public, because fans, followers, are there one day and maybe not the next.” Definitely: a thousand Fiordelisi does not make a Berti.
Signorini, “Big Brother is not San Vittore”: Voice 5
This forty-third episode began with a strenuous “Reflection” by Alfonso Signorini, to start right away with a nice festive atmosphere. It was difficult to understand what the conductor was getting at. Dumbfounded to the point of exhaustion, he seemed determined to censure the Vipponi for some mysterious misdeed, as ordinary administration has come to dictate. Surprise instead: Signorini Rottenmeier, struck to the core by Mama Fiordelisi’s letter that went viral on the unified social networks, felt he had to clarify an important quibble. Since Madame imagined her daughter couldn’t go out because of “a hefty fine she’d have to pay,” here comes the denial: “Big Brother isn’t San Vittore if anyone wants to go, and I tell everyone the red door is always open, anytime.Two rivals have already left the game without issue: Salatino because he missed his girlfriend too much and Patrizia Rossetti for health reasons.Fiordelisi, having felt his mother’s devastating descent onto the field, tries to get a pedestrian spot to tuck into: “Mom is so worried. Think of Alfonso, who stopped me from doing L’Isola dei Famosi in 2017 because she would have felt too bad from home to see me there. I was 19 and I let myself be conditioned to reject the offer despite passing the audition.” Just one question: Why could Fiordelisi be considered “famous” five years ago? If in doubt about losing sleep, a single Ge Wisdom: “Tonight I’m going to hug my Edoardo again, but unfortunately I have my women’s things”. Good news: we could have been kept up to date on the influencer cycle since 2017. We narrowly missed him.