It was enough for them to return to the Rai studios, some for an hour, others for a whole evening, and persistent rumors began to circulate about their final return to Viale Mazzini. This even went so far as to pressure the company's top management to intervene with a press release that flatly denied the rumors and branded them “fake news.” Last Sunday, March 3, Barbara D'Urso returned to the screen after Mediaset showed her the door. “I was ripped out of my life, I was at Mediaset for 23 years, happy especially in the first few years, I went live every day for 16 years, the company gave me a lot, but I gave my life.” “Me “I have not forgotten the terrible way in which I was sent away on June 26th at 4:20 p.m.,” she told Mara Venier at the Domenica In studios. Immediately after this interview, talks began about a possible return of D'Urso, who first worked on public television in the seventies, with an evening show on Saturdays on Rai 1, a kind of Carramba that surprises. “Returning to Rai is very important for me, I started here, I was in Rai for years. “My heart always belongs to you,” he said before signing off. In the indiscretion that he wanted her on Rai from the next season, there was also a reference to an intervention by Flavio Briatore in support of the presenter: a hypothesis that the entrepreneur himself denied.
Just a few days earlier, another big return to Rai caused uncontrolled rumors. Massimo Giletti, who was at Rai for almost 30 years from the late 1980s to 2016, hosted La tv fa 70 on Rai 1 on February 28, the special program celebrating the 70th anniversary of Italian television. This was enough to talk about a change in the management of one of the historical programs: the very one Domenica In from which Barbara D'Urso would reemerge a few days later on Rai. According to rumors, Giletti should have replaced Mara Venier from next season. At this point the official announcement came from Viale Mazzini. “False news continues to circulate with some frequency about the organization of the next Rai broadcasts,” we read, “after denying the return of Barbara D'Urso in the next operating plans, we are now reading with astonishment about a possible replacement. “ by Mara Venier with Massimo Giletti on Sunday afternoon. This is also news without any basis. Mara Venier will continue with her “Domenica In”.