Caterina Balivo has always liked a challenge and for this reason, in recent years she has decided to leave the “permanent position” to Zalone in order to study, reinvent herself and understand in which direction to go. And so, after a mini-format dedicated to books broadcast on Instagram during the first lockdown, came a delightful podcast entitled Ricomincio dal no, dedicated to all those nos who help to grow and improve , a foray into Radio2 and the role of judge of The Masked Singer on Rai1, it’s also time to tackle a brand new project on a network he’s never appeared on before: Tv8. The program is called who wants to marry my mother, produced by Ilaria Dallatana’s Blu Yazmine, focuses on mothers who, accompanied by their children, are looking for a man who will listen to them and a love that can brighten their lives. leading the story starts on Wednesday 22 June in prime time on DTT channel 8 and is then available on demand on Skyis in fact Caterina Balivo, attentive observer but also mentor, counselor and sometimes psychologist of mothers and children, who scans the shortlist of applicants episode by episode until the final selection is made.
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“It’s a production I seemed to have known all along. It’s not easy to stay all day with a team that you immediately perceive as family,” says Caterina on the sidelines of the press conference to present the program, just a few steps from the Teatro alla Scala. With her hair slicked back and wearing a high-necked, yellow, long-sleeved dress that she says gives Bridgerton a little wink, Balivo shows herself as the television audience knows her: sunny, open, always ready to answer, but also with a pronounced sensitivity that he can really pull himself out when he stops feeling the tension and starts to let go. In addition to underscoring the sincerity of the format’s intentions – “There is nothing piloted” – and to regret the microcosm floating in time where Who wants to marry my mother? unfolds – for the record, it’s Villa Tenchio near Pavia – Caterina also takes the opportunity to talk about her personal experiences with relationships before finding her corner of paradise Guido Maria Brera, to admit to being an incurable romantic.
“I love being wooed, I’m a bit old-fashioned. That’s why I sometimes tease my husband by asking him for a message, a note, a gift, but also a simple bouquet of flowers. I shop every ten days,” says Balivo, explaining that I’m not particularly used to surprises – “Once she organized dinner for me with my friends and she still weighs me because I’ve complained in the last 40 minutes because I was tired and didn’t want to go home that evening” -. Caterina is about the possibility of being able to have a say in the possible girlfriend and the possible boyfriend of her two sons Cora and Guido Alberto – who, by the way, are still very young decided: “I’ll have a say. Although thanks to this program I have realized that the more you say, the more the other does the opposite. You have to leave it with girlfriends, while maybe it’s easier to say something about friends,” explains Balivo, who understood that she had met the man of her life when she first decided not to rush to her friends for details talk about the encounter and the person and keep everything to yourself.
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What is clear is that Caterina’s attitude as a psychologist is not bad in her first show on Tv8: “It’s normal, after years of interviews with simple people and well-known personalities. I think it comes down to a certain approach, even if I never rush into diagnoses». On the business front, the host couldn’t be happier: «At Tv8 there is a great professionalism and a desire to marry projects that you really believe into follow them from beginning to end: a plus for the conductor and the producer ». When we ask her if working on a project is more liberating than the exclusivity of a network, the answer comes immediately, wrapped in a veil of deep sincerity: “In a fluid world, there is no right thing: if you like something you do it, if you don’t like it you don’t do it. I have received many suggestions in recent years that have not convinced me and I said no. Until recently I had a great responsibility to marry the right project: now I don’t have it ».
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