Sit concludes tonight at 9.25pm on Rai 2 and streaming on RaiPlay the thirteenth edition of Beasts Of Francesca Fagnani. The guests of the episode of December 2nd are Stefania Sandrelli, Sabrina Salerno and the tennis player Fabio Fogniniready for a sincere and unfiltered chat. The final surprise is the interview with Maria De Filippi.
Beasts 2025guests tonight 2 December, interviews with Stefania Sandrelli, Sabrina Salerno, Fabio Fognini and Maria De Filippi
Stefania Sandrelli a Beasts: «I made love with Gino Paoli on top of the dome of St. Peter’s»
Francesca Fagnani’s first interview is with a luminous and never modest Stefania Sandrelli. The actress, among the most loved by Italian cinema, he indulges in libertine memories full of joy of living, starting with his greatest loves: Nicky Pende, Giovanni Soldati and Gino Paoli. She confesses that she felt an overwhelming passion for the Genoese singer, whom she met when she was just 16 years old. «With Gino we got a lot of satisfaction. We even made love on top of St. Peter’s Basilicaon the staircase towards the dome”.
Passions and pains of an erotic symbol of Italian cinema (who doesn’t wear panties)
“Did sex matter much in your life?” the host of Belve asks her. «Yes, and I’m very happy that Gino weaned me. Because he too was very exuberant.” The muse of directors such as Pietro Germi and Bernardo Bertolucci he talks about his second career in erotic cinema as successful as the film The Key.
To Francesca Fagnani, who asks her: «He embarks on the erotic genre at 40, because?”, Sandrelli explains to her that he found the script very beautiful and that he wanted to do it. «When she saw herself again she felt, did you feel embarrassed?” «No. I liked it. And then he freed me…».
Stefania Sandrelli at “Belve” (Stefania Casellato)
At Francesca Fagnani’s request regarding hers habit of not wearing pantiesan amused Sandrelli confesses: «they bother me. There are more times than not that I don’t wear them [..] in fact I have socks on tonight.” It’s there too space for more melancholic memories. The actress explains that, initially, she didn’t know that Gino Paoli was married.
The birth in 1964 of their daughter Amandajust 3 months after that of the son Paoli had with his wife Anna, it was a very painful moment. «He told me it wasn’t him but I didn’t believe him. He always denied it. She also said that she was free to do whatever she wanted:
years later we talked about it and laughed together with Anna.”
Also marriage to surgeon Nicky Pende It wasn’t always perfect. Because of man’s problems with alcoholSandrelli had to remove his daughter for a certain period, who went to live with her father Paoli. «I suffered a lot. I separated from my husband, I couldn’t give up my daughter.”
Sabrina Salerno a Beasts: «Never been Berlusconi’s lover. Today I love a very famous (but top secret) singer”
The singer and showgirl Sabrina Salerno is the symbol of the carefree nature of the Eighties. His interview with Beasts reveals a new, more fragile and sensitive side of the pin-up and sex symbol mask of Boyshis best-known hit. Francesca Fagnani tests her with gossip who has always followed her throughout her career: the alleged flirtation with Silvio Berlusconi.
«How much truth is there in that gossip?». «I was never his lover. They created an aura of mystery about this thing. He was fascinated by beauty, I was a little cheeky. He imposed me on the program Highly rewarded. Today, if I am here, it is also thanks to him. I am very grateful to him.”
During the long conversation, Sabrina Salerno reveals that she loves an artist but whose name she doesn’t mention. «I fell in love with an Italian singer who made the history of music.” «Tell us who it is!», Fagnani begs her. “No. He is much loved, someone who does stadiums».
«Baglioni?» try to guess the journalistwho perhaps got it right. The singer he pauses and then, smiling, try to glide: «She is terrible, Fagnani!».
Sabrina Salerno in Belve (Stefania Casellato)
The complicated relationship with his father
There is no shortage of confidences about his private life. Speaking of his father, he says: «I only met him when I was 12, he didn’t want to recognize me». “Did you ask for the DNA test?” asks the journalist. “I didn’t want to, but he said horrible things about me and so I decided: we took the test and I turned out to be his daughter.” «At the notary he hugged me, but as soon as we left he asked me not to reveal his surname. He was a career man, a figure with a view to finance.”
Fabio Fognini a Beasts: «The Davis Cup? a dream now closed in a drawer”
Fabio Fognini, a tennis champion to the court (and on the stool) by Francesca Fagnani. The athlete answers sincerely to the journalist’s questions regarding his recent retirement, and reveals that he is not very nostalgic. “I follow a lot but I don’t miss it: I haven’t played tennis anymore.” There is a hint of bitterness about his failure to be called up for the Davis Cup in 2023: “a dream that remained locked in the drawer”. To the direct question: «why did they exclude you from the Davis Cup, did they make it clear to you? the tennis player replies: “Nothing has been clarified to me. I haven’t had a discussion with anyone, I think this is the most ridiculous thing.”
Francesco Fagnini. (Stefania Casellato)
Fabio Fognini: panic attacks, fines and a certain Bukowski
The feeling of defeat is still present and he tells it with a very significant episode about the captain of the Italian team, Filippo Volandri. «On the very day I announced my retirement at Wimbledon, I was at dinner and at the next table there was him, Volandri: he greeted us but didn’t have the courage to say anything to me, not even a compliment about my career. He didn’t tell me anything.”
Fagnani does not miss the opportunity to ask him to account for the fines received for his less than impeccable attitudes during sporting events. «The saltiest? «At the US Open, a fine of 96 thousand euros». «How much have you paid in fines in your career?» asks the journalist. «About half a million euros».
Then, with great frankness, He says he suffered from panic attacks: «I have never felt so bad. The first time it happened at Roland Garros.” Finally, a little joke which Fognini captures with great irony. Fagnani asks: «Bukowski. Do we know who he is?». The tennis player responds with hilarity, renaming him “Bubboski”.