Maria De Filippi talks about Giulia De Lellis and gives the names of two big names in Italian music who have not passed the auditions of ‘Amici’!

And today online the second part (after the first published last week) of the interview that Maria De Filippi released to the weekly People. The queen of TV, as she is often nicknamed, indulged in some comments on those who then grinded great successes from her programs.

The talents of Friends, but also the boys of Men and women, today leaving the dating-show, they can find fame and success.

First of all, to the De Filippi was asked which guys, after leaving her programs, she is most fond of, but the presenter glossed over:

That’s the only question I don’t answer, I just can’t. If I told you a few names, all hell would break loose. With many of the guys who got lucky thanks to Friends I was tied up in a double thread. One word too many would hurt those I don’t mention. It must be understood that ad Friends special bonds and synergies are created. The boys stay there for three months, they don’t see anyone, they don’t meet family members: I necessarily become their only point of reference.

The De Filippi continues, however, to be fundamental in their artistic careers even after their participation in the program:

It’s true. For those – not all – who have established a special relationship with me, I have always been there. It is inevitable. Take Emma Marrone e Alessandra Amoroso, for example. When they got out of Friends and they started to record their first album, they made me listen to every song, they asked me for advice, they wanted my opinion on everything. This summer, however, he always calls me Gaia in Mantua to write songs: “As soon as I have something I’ll let you listen to it“, tells me. Then, of course, over time all these dynamics grow so tight they loosen a bit, but they remain.

Maria he then also told an anecdote about Emma and his new role ad X Factor, as a judge:

She never revealed it, but before this year she had already been called several times as a judge of a musical talent, both a The Voice both a X Factor. She always said no, she didn’t feel ready. This year he asked me for advice. “What do you say about X Factor?“. Absolutely yes, go. So it was. But that night when he left the house I was

Also Giulia De Lellis it is another creation of his, so to speak. However, it comes from Men and women:

I have known Giulia a Men and women four years ago, Andrea Damante she was a tronista, she was a courtier. This girl from Pomezia arrives and I immediately understand that she has something more, an important attitude, a strong and intelligent, instinctive character. But she never expected the success she has now achieved, something that has popped into her hand. I believe at some point Giulia as if looked at from the outside, with amazement. However when Mondadori he asked her to write the autobiography, she was very uncertain. She didn’t feel like a writer and she isn’t. So I told her: people do not expect an essay from you Umberto Eco, wants to know your life. And you tell them. Mondadori looks for you for what you are.

The presenter also admitted that she let various talents slip away over the years:

Arisa, for example. He did i casting per Friends and was immediately rejected, at the first song, after a few stanzas. That same year he won Sanremo with Sincerity. But also Last was discarded by my collaborators: he was granted a few more auditions than Arisa, but then they eliminated it anyway. He won instead Sanremo in New Proposals and the following year, in 2019, he was ranked second among the Big. We have taken a few patches over the years, it is inevitable, but those two have failed me, because both of them have not even arrived at my evaluation.