“Amadeus continues to follow us unabashedly and tirelessly. i heard it yesterday He told me one thing: I don’t know if I’ll go to Sanremo this year. I throw it there. He told me: Don’t say it, but maybe I won’t either. I don’t know. Oh, he told me. I know he’s a melon but I like to say things because people need to know.’
So suddenly, early in the morning.
Fiorello at Viva Rai2! “Throw it there”: now we need to understand the level of the news. Bombshell, joke, hyperbole or just a passing outburst?
Of course, the atmosphere in the new Meloni-powered Rai is not the most serene: first Fabio Fazio and then Lucia Annunziata leaving (or being forced to…), now the hesitation of Amadeus.
It was already clear that the tide had already turned during the last Sanremo festival, more controversial than ever (especially the double case of Fedez: first the photo of Deputy Minister Galeazzo Bignami in a Nazi mask, snapped live, then the kiss on stage with Rosa Chemical). So much so that Amadeus (who has also signed a contract for 2024) was still hot at Sanremo, just as heartbroken as he was about the attacks that had come at him and Viale Mazzini management from the right: ” If you should send me away, what to do? I’m going… When my term here ends, I’ll pack my bags».
It also seems no coincidence that the private outburst that Fiorello made public came after the sit-down at Rai, which saw Stefano Coletta – with whom Amadeus has a much-cherished relationship – hand over Prime Time Entertainment to Marcello Ciannamea left (promoted to the new position in the league).
The other truth is that today Amadeus feels more tolerated than supported and that the mood he is facing in the face of the event that brings Rai’s box office the most revenue (over 50 million euros) is not the best. The conductor is waiting for an appreciative nod, but nothing has arrived yet…