ORNow a small cult on the television schedule, it’s back this evening at 9.20pm BeastsFrancesca Fagnani’s program made up of pungent and ironic interviews with big names in costume, entertainment and sport. Guests of the evening Antonio Conte, Ivana Spagna and Eva Riccobono
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Former Juventus champion and former coach of the Italian national football team, Antonio Conte tells himself to Fagnani as he has never done before. Currently without a team, he does not hide his desire to return to the football pitch soon: Would he like to coach teams like Napoli or Roma? «Certainly yes, they are two squares that I would like to experience, for the passion they convey to you. I hope that one day there will be the opportunity to have this experience. What if I would train them while running? I don’t think so because they are situations created before.”
Instead, questioned about controversy erupted after Roberto Mancini’s farewell to the national team – to coach Saudi Arabia –, Conte says he does not want to enter into the issue but, when pressed, reveals «According to the newspapers, Saudi Arabia would have made offers to everyone, I’m getting involved too. But I refused. I think Mancini did something historic by winning the European championships. Then there was certainly the non-participation in the World Cup. These are situations that leave wounds.” To the joke “You would never recover!”, he replies «It would have been very hard. But in that case maybe yes, I would have left afterwards.”
Still on the subject of farewells, he also reveals that the most painful was certainly the one at Juventus in 2014 and then also talk about his troubled relationship with the current Roma coach José Mourinho. And when Francesca reminds Conte that she once told him “let’s meet in the office” in a threatening tone, the coach comments seraphically «I come from the street, don’t ever forget that».
The mister’s rules and the scam suffered
During the interview there is also space for joke about Conte’s “military” attitude in terms of “instructions” on sexual intercourse in a period of competition, of short duration and with as little effort as possible. «Having a background as a footballer – says the coach – I have practical experiences that I can transfer. In the imminence of the match the advice is to make as little effort as possible. That is, being passive while the other party must be very active» he concludes with a laugh.
The final argument is that of scam suffered by Conte at the hands of Massimo Bochicciobroker who died in a mysterious accident last June to which Conte had entrusted over 24 million euros. «It seemed strange to me, everything that happened when he returned to Italy, all this freedom that was given to him» confides the coach «It was clear that he had defrauded many people. Much more attention would have been needed and I think there was a bit of laxity from this point of view. I only partially recovered the money, we’ll see what happens with the other part».
At Belve 2023 Ivana Spagna and paranormal visions
Famous for hits such as Easy Lady And People like usthe singer from Verona talks about one special paranormal “sensitivity”. which he says he developed. «When we end up in this life we go to another dimension» she says, «I’m telling you this because I actually saw them. You can see the person, I don’t see the features but I see the paleness of the face and all the details of the dress». Just like the little protagonist of The sixth sense by M. Night Shyamalan, in short.
Fagnani can only elaborate: «But do you see them when you’re awake or when you sleep?», «When you’re awake – replies Ivana. Usually at five in the morning. The first time I saw a lady kneeling and writing in my living room. She didn’t talk to me because when I see them I can’t communicate with them while in dreams they tell me what’s happening».
The pain of the death of the mother and cosmetic surgery
Ivana then also talks about the pain of losing her mother «When she died I had been suffering for months. I went to sing, I went back to sleep in the hospital next to her and when she passed away, that same evening I went to sing and finished the tour. I was terrible even to look at, I was destroyed in soul and body.” A loss that even led her to think about taking her own life. «I took things to sleep, really heavy ones. And in the end I said to myself “Good, I thought about others now I think about myself”. I no longer had the desire to go on, to suffer. I had organized everything, then my kitten “awakened” me when I could no longer be there. I wanted to cut my wrists».
After many painful moments, the singer also talks about herself with irony and lightness, especially regarding her aesthetic interventions. Quietly admitted, unlike many of his colleagues. «I retouched my entire face. I started with my nose when I was sixteen, and my parents made a sacrifice to pay for it… Then I got my teeth done, facelifts, my mouth. I was freaked out, now I see the photos and I looked like a full moon. But first I saw the furrow, I went and bought the injections, kept them in the fridge and did them myself».
The supermodel Eva Riccobono a Beasts 2023
Born in Palermo in 1983, the supermodel is one of the few models in our country to have picked up the legacy of great names of the past such as Monica Bellucci and Carla Bruni. And today, after many wanderings around the world, Eva returned to live permanently in Italyready to tell her story in Francesca Fagnani’s studio.
Among the tastiest personal anecdotes, tells of a truly memorable party a few years ago in New York. «I was with a friend of mine who tells me he has to go to a party. I ask him to accompany him but he tells me that he is a party only for gays and trans in a particular place where women are not allowed to enter. So we came up with the idea of dress like a trans, I went and saw things that, quoting a movie, you humans cannot imagine. They coupled on the sofas and ended the evening in an even more surreal way. I go to the bathroom and two boys are hitting on me, at a certain point I started screaming in fear “I’ve got the potato!” because I was afraid.”
On his relationships however, Eva reveals for the first time about her experience with another woman «There was this very beautiful girl, more feminine than me. I, who am a pioneer of experiences, say to myself “I’ll try it, then if I like it or I don’t like it…”. So I tried. It was fun and cute, but I prefer it…I like women in some way, but maybe…”. And Fagnani concludes jokingly, «I have deja-vu on one of your colleagues».
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