If the lifeline for singers who lose inspiration are “Greatest Hits” albums and for actors it is theatrical tours throughout the country, for celebrities it is reality shows with their own family. A formula that has no prestige, that exposes them in the most unlikely way, but that, curiously, generates great dividends. So they did it the Montaners with his homonymous series for Disney+, Sylvester Stallone and Carolina Ardohain for Paramount+ and now his own Marcelo Tinelli for Prime Video. A bold bet with which the driver plans to return to the front pages, even if it costs him his credibility and assumed privacy.
Throughout his more than 40 years of uninterrupted career, Tinelli gradually showed his most personal world in gossip magazines. On its covers and pages, the former columnist of Alberto Badia In the ’80s he showed the birth of all his children, loves, heartbreaks and personal projects. However, with this proposal, the driver goes one step further, by exposing himself in front of a camera that does not cut him short of going to a session or, as the family publicly proposes, that there is no editing of reality or an overacting at home, which sounds hardly credible.
With a premiere date for Friday, January 17, 2025, the series – divided into eight chapters of a little more than 30 minutes, which will be available in more than 240 countries – will present the daily life of Tinelli when he gets together with his childrenin order of appearance: Micaela, Candelaria, Juanita and Lorenzoplus the addition of Luciano “El Tirri”his brand new Peruvian girlfriend Milett Figueroa and close friends like his ex-partner Soledad Aquinoand their sons-in-law Coti Sorokin and soccer player Lisandro López. It is worth noting that, by his own decision, his son Francis He gave up being part of the party, remaining only a guest on rare occasions.
Structure. The reality show is divided into two very marked narrative topics. On the one hand, the assembly, the prelude and the celebration of the celestial wedding between Candelaria and Coti in Punta del Este, where the Tinelli family has their mansion. And on the other, the introduction of the newest member, the actress and Marcelo’s partner, Milett Figueroa, and what it does to her daughters that a beautiful and outgoing woman immediately slips into such an intimate setting.
“We understand that consumers are looking for unique stories and talent that resonate locally. We trust that ‘Los Tinelli’ will be well received since the public will be able to delve more deeply into the members of this family, whom they follow on social networks and in public life,” he says. Camila Misasproducer of the Local Originals department of the global platform Prime Video.
To know the origin of the project, we must go back to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, when the host and former artistic manager of América TV expressed his intention to show his life to the public that accompanied him his entire life in the “most authentic and unfiltered” way. . A prototype that he put into practice in the last Copa América with his cousin “El Tirri”, but that lasted only one broadcast. Those close to the production company LaFlia acknowledge to NOTICIAS that the lack of a script and the place where the competition was played – the United States, which does not allow improvisation and where Marcelo is an ordinary citizen – played a very bad trick on them. The same would not happen under the wing of Prime Video directors.
For its part, Juan Manuel Martínez Medinadirector and showrunner of the platform, acknowledges: “What particularly attracted me to this project and encouraged me to lead it was the challenge that Marcelo Tinelli presented to me in a talk we had during the World Cup in Qatar. “He told me that he wanted me to tell him what he really is like, without filters.” And he added: “In ‘Los Tinelli’ you will discover an authentic, intimate and never-before-seen Marcelo. “They are going to see him in his role as father, friend and partner.”
Guest villain. The reality show begins in the luxurious residence in Punta del Este, Uruguay, where the family is making preparations for what will be the wedding of Candelaria and the renowned musician Coti Sorokin, showing them all dressed for the occasion, with logical nerves in front of them. an event of such sentimental and media magnitude. The conflict, because there must be one in every televised story, occurs when Marcelo recognizes: “I forgot to tell you that I invited my new girlfriend Milett”which generated the first discontent among his children, who questioned the inappropriateness of the situation. The protagonist of the evening, Candelariahe defends himself: “It seems to me that he should have talked about it before”while her other daughter Micaela attacks: “If I know a couple and I go three months, clearly, I will not come to the house in Uruguay.”
First short circuit that generated immediate tensions between the bearers of the surname Tinelli and the beautiful Milett and that would increase in the daily life of coexistence. Cizañea Candelaria with little spontaneity: “They spend all day tinkering, it makes me sick”. And although it is an unequal fight because it seems like “Milett against everyone,” the displays of affection from the recent couple especially bother the oldest daughter, Candelaria, 34 years old: “She’s a fool, she’s even younger than me,” says by Milett, 32.
In “Los Tinelli” there is a wild card that comes to put cold cloths on all the blood problems, if they exist in the paradisiacal mansion that the family has in Punta del Este. “El Tirri” is the comedian of the film. His interventions are to make the viewer smile and decompress tensions, although in each of them the hand of a film director is noticeable. Another lifeguard in a sea that will get choppy at times is Lorenzo (Lolo) – with prior authorization from his mother. Guillermina Valdes-, who with his 10 energetic years distracts from adult issues.
Francisco “Tiki” Tinelli It will not be part of the series. He son of Marcelo and Paula Robles He decided several years ago to keep a low profile and dedicate himself to music as a DJ and audiovisual producer, so this level of exposure only contradicts his interests. Proof of this is his Instagram account with more than 600 thousand followers, which does not have any posts other than old stories. In them he even shows an aesthetic encrypted between art and mysticism: little close-up and a lot of photographed objects with indirect messages. Nothing remained of her brief time in acting, of her previous role as a model and much less of her media family. But without anger or resentment he came out to explain his attitude towards the reality show: “It is not easy to be part of this family in which things always happen, but it is not impossible either. My mother always knew how to handle herself and that gave me a lot of peace and ease. “I’m not on the show simply because I feel more comfortable behind the camera, keeping my private life what it is, private.”
“We have never shown the intimacy of how our family lives together,” Marcelo confessed a few days ago in a note with Infobae. “It seems to me that it will be good from that place, so that those who see us know that we are a typical family in which there are encounters, disagreements and fights, like in any other.”
Another point to take into account will be the interaction generated by the content on networks and how its protagonists will respond to public demand. As NEWS was able to find out, the protagonists would be obliged to respond or replicate what public opinion debates in the virtual field. So it is assumed that there will be no shortage of those protocol editorials from the Tinellis on their Instagram or X accounts, defending themselves from this or that attitude.
Marcelo perjures, in every interview he conducts, that “Nothing that will be seen in the reality show is scripted”. That it is only about the real life of seven people under the same roof and that the bet is on capturing, in the most truthful way, the very essence of coexistence. “This is who we are, there is no staging, it is our real life,” he concludes.
