The presenter: after two years at home with the children, now I’m back on TV. I always say what I think. I only improved on social media: my gaffes date back to when there was still no perception of being exploited
For twenty years, Caterina Balivo was the essential face of daytime Rai. Whether it was on Raiuno or Raidue, from Monday to Friday it entered our homes. Then, in the first lockdowndecides to leave hers early come to me
. Closed program, team disbanded. For the past two years, she has been home with her children. “I wanted to hear what was happening in the world and also to my family,” she says now. She adds: “Even just having lunch with them eating dishes cooked by me was a very strange feeling, after so many baskets consumed in the dressing room while I was being made up.” After her, she produced a podcast (I start from no), was sworn in by Masked singer, but no longer said good afternoon or good morning in favor of the camera. The return takes place in recent weeks, with two new programs and prime time. The bob has grown, the hair is long againthe verve is the same as when he debuted a Miss Italy in 1999.
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When did you get the idea of making TV?
“It was a goal already at 15. I saw a commercial to participate in Extremely beautiful
. My grandmother, who always told me “you are beautiful”, had recently passed away. I had never believed her, I didn’t feel beautiful at all. In front of the commercial, I thought: if she was right, they’ll get me. Under the house in Aversa, there was a wedding photographer, I present myself with the 50 thousand lire that grandfather had given me at Easter and with a very high-necked double-breasted coat. I only ask for black and white close-ups. The photographer tells me: you will only pay me if they catch you ».
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And did they take it?
«I never sent the photos: I was afraid of being disappointed by my grandmother. Who knows if, by sending her, perhaps they would have softened, they would have said: look at this one that sends photos completely covered … Then, since if I put something in my head I have to do it, I decided that I would try Miss Italy, but only after high school ” .
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He finished third and became the valley of «Let’s bet», and then conducted many programs. Among others, «Unomattina», «Casa Raiuno», «Afternoon on 2», «Festa Italiana», «Detto Fatto», «Come to me» …
“The last three he said, I created them from scratch. They left quietly, I struggled, I made them take off to great ratings: they were my best gratification ».
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Italian party, however, they took it away from the top of the audience, relegating it to Raidue. It seems that the director did not like an interview in which he talked about him.
“The career of a conductor is like that of a football player: the result does not always correspond to his performance”.
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She herself accused herself of not being able to count to ten before speaking.
“I haven’t learned how to do it yet. I always say what I think. I only improved on social media: my gaffes date back to when there was not yet the perception that what you wrote could be exploited ».
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She had to give up the role of godmother of Gay Pride for an old joke (“Ricky Martin is good even if he is gay”) and had to delete a post about Diletta Leotta in which he observed that, to invoke privacy, she was too little dressed.
“Today I realized that when you have the impulse to write, rather, it is better not to write. It strikes me that my son Guido Alberto is just like me. To my husband I say: you explain it to him that he has to count to 20, I am not credible ».
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His husband Guido Maria Breraa man of finance, has now also become a successful writer and he is also on the covers, what effect does it have on them?
«I find it a natural consequence of what I have always experienced at home, where he was immediately my opinion leader. I knew him he was talking to me about Devilswhich would become his first novel and then a Sky series ».
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You have two children, aged 10 and 5. Do you agree with your husband’s theory that children should study for up to one hour a day and then be outside?
“I don’t want to waste a minute on this story. He has received thousands of insults; Costanza, the youngest of the two children of her first marriage, made a post to say “enough, I’m her daughter, it’s 10.30 pm and I’m still studying”. Guido is right that, today, kids need to have practical sense, be organized and graduate quickly. But Guido Alberto is in elementary school, they give him very few homework and I complain about it. Of mine, I have memories of studying mad and desperate: at the Classico, in my class, we started in 30 and reached the maturity in 16 ».
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And how does it go about the story that children have to learn not Chinese but to drive a tractor?
«Guido really wanted to teach it, but Guido Alberto replied: Dad, I’m little! The truth is that my husband doesn’t always feel understood at home. However, after 13 years together, I acknowledge that about finance, the environment, he has always said things in advance that have come true. He, due to professional deformation, lives the risks, looking from here to a few years. At the beginning of the pandemic, he kept saying: let’s get ready, let’s get ready. I, on the other hand, live in the present, I don’t know how to live on what will come. The other day, in Rome, there was a fire at the Malagrotta landfill and Guido made us close the windows. A heat … I said: I don’t care if I lose a year of life for dioxin, I open ».
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Why did he self-report a marital crisis during lockdwon?
«Why tell us that there is a perfect family? We experienced the pandemic in a different way, he – frail in health – isolated for fear of getting sick, I more hungry for normality. In the second lockdown, we were staying in the house by the sea, the schools reopened and I was happy that the children were returning to socialize, but Guido was afraid that they would bring Covid home. At that, I took the children and went back to Rome, alone with them ».
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In the pandemic, she left «Come to me» precisely to be closer to her children and spouse. Result: zero conduction for almost two years.
“It was more complex than that. I was doing a cheerful, light program, which at that point I felt out of tune. Having Guido next to me, I realized that the world was changing and if I see the wave coming, I want to surf, not stay on the beach. I had a son in Dad, a two-year-old girl I had raised in my spare time. I had always worked ten hours a day. Sometimes, getting involved also means stopping, listening to yourself, changing the scale of priorities. Now, I no longer want to spend many hours away from home every day ».
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In the end, in emergencies, does the woman always take the step backwards?
“True. In my case, however, I have different possibilities than the average: I could have paid for aid, but I made a more personal choice ».
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Her husband said he delegated the daily chores to her.
“The RAI colleagues, when they read it, they said to me: what if you stay here every day?”.
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So, on parity, at home, we are not in good shape?
«My husband is not a male chauvinist, but there is a lot to do about equal commitments. We will arrive at parity when the two parents create the same problem on working hours, checking if there is a play or a medical examination of the child ».
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Guido told the Corriere about her: «I love your ability to be light while remaining a person of depth. You help me by using two weapons: sensitivity and the ability to play down ».
«On the ability to play down, however, at times, he gets angry. She smiles at it with a delayed burst. But we have the same values on the family, on our word ».
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What do you love about him?
«His detachment. For a sanguine like me it is good, if not, I would live in a continuous soap opera ».
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How is this soap opera made?
«Of tragedies, tears, of a slightly Neapolitan theatricality, of the vehemence that as a young girl had made me baptize ‘the class unionist’. And you calculate that my parents were teachers, my father was the school’s vice principal. “
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The protagonist of her novel “Men are like washing machines” is a Neapolitan girl who talks too much, always tells the truth and cuts the clothes of her boyfriends if they cheat on her. And she?
«He is inspired by me before Guido. Men changed. Only the washing machine remained faithful ».
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Did you know the betrayal?
“Of course. Both received and committed. But it gave me a goal to tell myself: with the father of my children it will be different. Still, I didn’t want any children. Then, seeing Guido being a dad, I discovered that weekends with his children didn’t bother me ».
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Before, she had only been seen alongside young career managers.
«I didn’t understand the friends who were with actors or players. I’ve always wanted a man with a non-public job who played a different league than mine. If you do the same job, either you are both very good or one is the shoulder of the other: I was not born a shoulder and I did not want a man with lesser ambitions ».
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Does the above soap opera include jealousy?
“Sometimes, my southerner part comes out. Once, in front of everyone, I said to one: Aren’t you ashamed to try it with my boyfriend next to your husband? Guido does not appreciate these interventions of mine. He says: never do it again ».
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On Tv8, he leads “Who wants to marry my mom?” and, starting July 28, she will be conducting “Help” on Raidue. Why not just Rai and why start up again?
“I want to do new things that stimulate me. On Tv8, separated mothers question themselves and the child can also decide for them. While Help starts from the assumption that every day we make thirty thousand decisions, perhaps asking for advice from a friend, while here the advice comes from strangers. They are two very different projects, but both with a psychological aspect that I love. I live with emotions, I have to feel the programs ».
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Until when do you want to do TV?
“Simple: as long as I enjoy myself.”
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June 28, 2022 (change June 28, 2022 | 07:19)
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