On his daughter Evelina, who from Vespa said that her father was plagiarized, the art critic revealed: “She could have come to me and she didn’t”
In the episode of Sunday In aired yesterday, Sunday 16 November 2025, Vittorio Sgarbi he was a guest of Mara Venier. In the Rai 1 television lounge the art critic not only presented his latest book, but also spoke at length about his private life, announcing that he will get married soon: he has decided to get married to his partner Sabrina Collewho stood by him in the most difficult moments. The 73-year-old also clarified his relationship with daughter Evelinawhich a few weeks ago, by Bruno Vespa, had expressed concern claiming that his father had been plagiarized.
Vittorio Sgarbi and his marriage to Sabrina Colle
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“Why marriage? To give, as is right, a part of my sensitivity and my existence to those who were close to me and to who gave me strength in the difficulties of daily life“. With these words Sgarbi responded to Mara Venier, who had asked him to describe his decision marry Sabrina Collehis historic companion. “My choice is a form of desire to testify to my conviction and my gratitude to Sabrina”, added the art critic, who in recent months has been hospitalized for depression and is gradually returning to public life.
The wedding will take place in Venice, in the church of Santa Maria dell’Orto. The choice of the city is not random: “I lived an important part of my life there, it is a return to a place of memory and happy existence”, he explained. Sgarbi also went over the long haul story with Sabrina Colle, which began in 1998 and often ended up in the spotlight due to the age difference and the “open” nature of their relationship. “Time does not change and it does not change the spirit of people, it makes them closer and more emotionally connected beyond their declarations and behavior in life”, he said. “There is the belief that some values are common and must be shared to the end. His irony and his amusement with my jokes are a form of intelligence that today have found a consolation and reassurance compared to provocation. The amazement ends, what remains is love, which is the most important thing“.
The relationships between Vittorio Sgarbi and his daughter Evelina
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During the interview we also returned to the relationship with the daughter Evelinawho submitted a request for the appointment of a support administrator for the father. Sgarbi said few words on the issue. Mara Venier recalled advising the young woman to join her father: “I told her to take a train and come to you straight away”. The critic’s response was immediate: “She could have easily come, but she didn’t come. He decided like this“.
The 25-year-old, on several occasions, claimed that her father would no longer be able to manage his interests and accused her partner Sabrina Colle of keeping her away from him. In the long interview given to Bruno Vespa, Evelina had responded to the words of the father, who had spoken of a daughter seeking attention, by saying: “It is plagiarized by cynical, heartless and unscrupulous people“.
What Evelina Sgarbi thinks of her father Vittorio’s marriage
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After the announcement a Sunday In, Evelina Sgarbi harshly commented on what she saw on TV: “What happened in Rai today is, if possible, an even more demeaning and humiliating spectacle of the interview done by Bruno Vespa and of the video on the wedding broadcast on Life Live“. The 25-year-old criticized the words uttered by her father: “My father in that video does not say ‘I am marrying Sabrina Colle because I discovered that I feel true love for her and because I have changed my mind about marriage’, but states in a tired way, almost as if it were a script, ‘I choose the certain path, rather than danger‘. It seems like a resignation to keep himself calm. But what should you watch out for? There isn’t even a sincere word that symbolizes true love, rather a collage of phrases prepared beforehand and repeated. I still think it’s completely plagiarized from the people around him.”
Evelina then added that she had seen her father in conditions that upset her: “He undoubtedly is intoxicated by the drugs he takes, swollen, full of tics. If you want to pretend that he worked on the book for months, that’s not the truth. He is a wealth of material for these things. Books can be made galore. He lets himself do it, he lets himself live. I also read some comments on the video in which it seems like he’s reading a script. I thought it was plagiarized but not to this extent.”
Finally, the young woman spoke about the impression she had watching the interview: “I saw my father panting again, staring into space, very disturbing. Even on social media they are realizing a reality made up of jackals and vultures. I saw him suffering, forced to go and publicize the book.”
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