Silvia Abravanel was the interviewee of The All Programs program. This Tuesday (19. During the conversation with Dani Bavoso and Flávio Ricco, the moderator commented on the relationship with Silvio Santos, recalled SBT’s resignation request and spoke about the sisters.
The second daughter of Silvio Santos, the presenter, was adopted by her parents. “It’s a very nice deed. I think we’re a gift. I was chosen, I was already there and they picked me up. I arrived at three days old,” he says of the adoption.
Silvia also commented on the relationship with the sisters. She confirmed that some of the sisters are closer together and says it’s normal. “I lived with my sisters, I moved away from home and they are all about the same age. We have our own group, we talk, if there’s a fight we all get together, but we’re not a margarine family,” he says.
In addition to her personal life, she spoke about her work on television and recalled the episode in which she resigned. In 2020, a controversy arose that Silvia would miss Abravanel and keep the Bom Dia & Cia team waiting for her. To deny this story, the host called production staff in front of cameras and was accused of embarrassing them.
“People are not used to television. You were shy. They took that little bit of the show and said I was embarrassing them [os funcionários]. They talked about my adoption, they talked about my personal life,” he recalls.
She says she resigned following these criticisms and comments about her personal life. “I quit. The program was over, I walked off the stage and quit. I said, ‘Bring whatever you want on the air, I’m not coming back here.’ He caught everyone wearing shorts,” he says. Silvia says Silvio Santos called her after the resignation. The presenter spent two weeks with her parents and then returned to television after hearing Silvio’s advice not to bother with nasty comments.
Despite being the daughter of the owner of SBT, Silvia says she started out as an intern at the family station. “I started at the bottom. I’ve done everything you can imagine, I’ve gone through all the stations. Nobody gives a teaspoon,” he says. “It was important to me to be on an equal footing with everyone else. I have a degree in veterinary medicine, I was there to study,” he adds.
After years of working in television, Silvio Santos hired his daughter as a director and then as a presenter. Regarding her working relationship with her father, Silvia says she has insisted on being treated like the other employees at the TV station.
The presenter says that after working with her father for twenty years, directing his programs and other SBT attractions, she has developed a great friendship with Silvio Santos. “We created this bond, I know how to talk to my father, I understand him just by looking at him,” he emphasizes.
Despite this relationship with Silvio Santos, Silvia Abravanel remembers some arguments she had with her father. She says that at the time she hosted Bom Dia & Cia with a presentation by Maisa, Priscilla Alcantara and Yudi Tamashiro, she was scolded by her father and ended up falling out with the host.
“I had a fight with Yudi because of his hard head. He took Silvio’s breast. He arrived with different hair and we have to have a permit for everything. A 15yearold boy, he wanted to cut his hair,” he says. Silvia says that the owner of SBT wanted to speak to Yudi, but he refused to go to the former boss’ dressing room and was fired.
“The day we fought I told him he couldn’t do it. He disrespected me, he disrespected the owner of the station,” he adds. However, the director guarantees that the fight is in the past and that she is very fond of Yudi, Priscilla and Maisa.