Before leaving for Nepal, where she spent New Year’s Eve with her boyfriend Lorenzo Biagiarelli, Wild Lucarelli gave a long interview to the Corriere della Sera. The opportunity to argue again about the last “disastrous” edition of Dancing with the Stars, which could also be the last for them given the frictions with the production and the protagonists of the Rai Uno show. Carlucci has also confirmed her for next year, but she’s hesitant.
In the lengthy conversation, Selvaggia Lucarelli was self-critical, admitting that she doesn’t have a nice manner and that the strict upbringing she received from the nuns over the nine years of school made her inflexible and judgmental. But when it came time to talk about recent experiences, a dance with the stars it went down hard.
Fellow judges, Milly and the production
Among those who disappointed them the most are Guillermo Mariotto (“Rude and aligned”), Fabio Canino (“I expected solidarity from him”), but above all the program staff (“All very generous with not very dancing competitors and inexplicably hostile only to me and Lorenzo”). What embittered her most was the atmosphere of “Everyone against Selvaggia”, which, according to the journalist, was also received positively: “It seemed that everyone had to silence me, insult me, shame me. Directly and indirectly through Lorenzo. They managed to achieve the difficult result of making the public love me”.
In short, there is something for everyone, but not for the hostess Milly Carlucci, who overlooked Selvaggia Lucarelli: “Did I expect support from her? No”. And yet, she says, she’s always played for the team and for the show, but without receiving the same support: “I understood that at Ballando I would be seen as useful Mistake in the Matrix, but not part of the cast to be protected. I’m sorry because, on the other hand, I’ve always played on the program side.” Lucarelli launched the most melodious jab toward Carolyn Smith, with whom there’s really no harmony: “She’s mad at me, maybe because she’s Salvinian, but I don’t think it’s a political problem. Before I came to Ballando, she was one woman among four men, the undisputed queen of the program. I come and take my place, he never accepted.”
The friend’s participation in Ballando
Selvaggia Lucarelli has admitted allowing Lorenzo Biagiarelli, his partner of seven years, to take part was a mistake. The chef succumbed to the flattery of Carlucci, who wanted him on the program, but as soon as Biagiarelli got on the trail, he became the center of criticism and controversy. “Friends who are into television had advised me against it, they told me it was one catch, which was a way to weaken and attack me. I was naive, I trusted. And in any case, it was difficult to predict that envy,” the journalist said, arguing that if Carolyn Smith’s husband had been on the line, she wouldn’t have given him the same treatment.
In any case, Lucarelli regrets one thing in relation to her partner: “The invention that Lorenzo would have been rude to his dancer showered him with a thousandfold public hatred insults. In this case, maybe I should have called everyone from production to the judges and asked for more truth and more respect. Instead I have this stupid fixation on the right things and it felt unfair to the other competitors so I let them do it. Not correct”.
The possible farewell to the program and the fears
On his possible return to the jury bench, Selvaggia Lucarelli strategically took his time: “I don’t know if I’ll come back. We agreed that we would talk in January. And I never had anyway.” binding contracts for more than a year in Ballando, sometimes renewed on the eve of the debut. By eve, I mean the day before.” Meanwhile, she fights on, making no secret of her concern for her safety. “I look around the house, I pay attention to who is walking past me. Despite this, I think that this year I risked more in Ballando’s corridors,” Lucarelli concluded, spurring on the protagonists of the program once again.