As soon as the threshold of 60 years is reached, Alba Parietti was told in a long interview with Corriere della Sera retracing his career, from the 80s, and from the famous Galagoal stool, which “who knows what happened to it”, to the 2000s and to his new career as a columnist. Age, for Alba Parietti, is just a number and years, she confesses, “she feels 30”. So the showgirl retraces the stages of her life, from adolescence, when she liked “all males”, to the first appearances on TV.
In the nineties, he says, “everything I could not even imagine comes true.” “I am sitting on the Galagoal stool in Telemontecarlo, an intuition of Ricardo Pereira, and from there I twist the sung mass of men’s football. I have a great chutzpah, I flaunt a certainty that makes men uncomfortable, but I’m prepared, they help me from the editorial staff and I study a lot – she says to the Via Solferino newspaper – From that moment everyone notices me, Rai, Mediaset, they call me Berlusconi, Agnelli, Maradona and Pelè are on the show, the New Yorker, Le Figaro write about me… ”. A success also due to the famous “crossed legs” on the stool: “But those of Sharon Stone came later“, Alba Parietti points out, wondering what happened to that stool.
Then in the interview we get to talk about our days too. The 2010s. “I become the guest par excellence – Parietti says again – I think I invented the profession of columnist, with Vittorio Sgarbi. I am a handyman and arouses many dislikes. But I never improvise, I prepare myself “.
During the interview, therefore, there is also room for more intimate confessions. Like those of the host’s countless meetings, including Alain Delon who Parietti even made him faint: “We both had to participate in Amici. We hadn’t seen each other for a long time, he was resentful because I had had a liaison with his lawyer – he says – But you see, Delon had never been the object of my desires because he was too beautiful, too perfect. However, after a long time we met again and I was very affectionate, as if nothing had happened. He went into crisis and felt bad. He says I made him faint ”.
The most exciting meeting, however, was the one with Ezio Bosso. “It was the most shocking meeting – he confesses – He was one of the few people I felt in awe of. In his huge tragedy he staged his illness, sharing it with music. It would be nice to tell these characters even in the shadows, because they developed the genius through great pains that made them cruel. It was a devastating relationship with him ”. Between the two there was a story, “complex, painful and dangerous, unrepeatable, which cost me a lot on an emotional level but which I am happy to have lived”. “It was a dream at times wonderful, beyond any human logic”, he tells Corriere.