Carlo Conti has finally announced the co-hosts of the 2025 Sanremo Festival. The reveal of the names came live to Tg1 of 8pm on Wednesday 15 January, just under a month before the start of the 75th edition, even if the artistic director will still have a few surprises in store.
Sanremo 2025, who are the co-hosts: Bianca Balti arrives
«I make a nice list night by night», he began in connection with Tg1. «On the first evening, Tuesday 11 February, there will be 30 singers competing, so it will be a very institutional evening»he began and then added: «I will lead alone, unless I can convince two historical friends». Could it be the associates Giorgio Panariello and Leonardo Pieraccioni? In recent months he denied their participation, yet he commented: “It can’t be said yet, I’m trying to convince them.”
Wednesday 12 February will be a «particularly strong evening because it is energy, it is desire to live, it is color with an extraordinary woman, a warrior, like our wonderful Bianca Balti»Conti announced. The top model, who has been battling ovarian cancer in recent months, is in the United States, but will arrive in the City of Flowers for the event. Together with her there will also be Cristiano Malgioglio and Nino Frassica.
Malgioglio has been judging a for several years Such and such showwhile Frassica worked with Conti a The best years. Also on Tg1, the host revealed that Malgioglio reacted to the news of having been enlisted in the cast of Sanremo 2025 as follows: “I have to think about how to dress.”
Miriam Leone, Mahmood and Alessia Marcuzzi
The third evening, on Thursday 13 February, will see the participation of Miriam Leonefresh from the success of the series The Lions of Sicily and of Diabolik – Who are you?. They will also arrive with her Elettra Lamborghini and Katia Follesa. Carlo Conti defined them respectively as «elegance, energy and freshness».
Still, the fourth evening, Friday 14 February dedicated to covers, will open the doors to a new couple: Mahmood and Geppi Cucciari. «It will be a very glamorous evening, very chic, but full of irony»promised the host. Mahmood returns to the Festival after the victory in 2022 with Chills paired with Blanco and, even before, in 2019 with Money. Geppi Cucciari, however, returns after being a guest in the 2012 edition hosted by Gianni Morandi and Rocco Papaleo.
Closing the list of co-hosts will be Alessia Marcuzzi on the final evening of Saturday 15 February. together with Alessandro Cattelan. For Marcuzzi this is a debut, even if last year he was in the cast of Long live Rai 2! Long live Sanremo! On Rai 1 next to Fiorello. Cattelan, however, held the role of co-host of It will be Sanremo and his participation in Sanremo 2025 was made official in recent months. «The final will be very institutional», Conti reiterated, «then maybe some other surprises will come along the way.
Sanremo 2025, rehearsals begin
In addition to Carlo Conti’s announcement on Wednesday 15 January the 30 Bigs competing took the stage of the Ariston Theater for the first time for rehearsals with the orchestra. Tg1 met Georgie at the end of the performance, which he declared: «Now every time I come back I remember when I said enough the previous time. And here I am again.”
He will be competing with The cure for me and it was already appreciated by the orchestra who stood up and applauded at the end of the rehearsal. «The orchestra was magnificent, they were kind»he added. 2025 will be the 30th anniversary of the victory with How would I know and recalled: «I was just a little girl. Today I would hug her and say: Come on, what needs to be done. Come on, courage!
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