Singer João Gomes, 19, revealed that presenter Maisa Silva, 20, tipped him off to ‘manage’ the jokes of a possible romance between the two as matters got ‘out of hand’.
In an interview with EXTRA newspaper, the owner of the hit song Dengo opened his heart and admitted he was in love with the former Bom Dia & Cia (SBT) host. Currently, he also considers the actress to be a great friend.
I met Maisa in person last year. I gave a presentation in São Paulo and she attended. After the show she sent me a message on Instagram that she had found a person my age who sings and is as successful as me, which gives me a very good energy with what she has written. As I went to reply, I saw that there was a very old message from me, from 2017, in which I explained I don’t even know what was in my head at the time (laughs). I think I wanted to be her friend so badly that I sent this straight away.
João Gomes
“That’s when we started playing this internal joke between us. She came to make fun of me and said if I said I liked her I should at least dedicate a song to her. When I released my new album, I said, “This will be it, okay?”
However, the hoax of a possible romance had a far bigger impact than either of them expected. To give you an idea, João Gomes and Maisa Silva’s name became one of the main topics on Twitter for a few days and with several suggestions from senders cute nicknames with abbreviations of the couple’s name.
Given the scenario, Maisa Silva asked João Gomes to “manage” the jokes they were both involved in because the public took the story to the “romantic side”.
Every day I texted Maisa and asked if everything was ok. One day she asked us to fix it because everything was out of control so we stopped playing. People don’t understand the story which is about friendship so they end up taking it on the romantic side.
João Gomes
He even joked about his “singleness” phase: “My heart is bitter. If I play João Gomes, I will cry myself,” he concluded.