«I’m going back to Rome with a program of my own. Whoever attacks me aims at Giorgia»- Corriere.it

From September, Andrea Giambruno will lead Diary of the day of the Tg4 every afternoon from Monday to Friday and, above all, broadcast from Rome and no longer from Milan. “It’s a personal favor that the company is doing me,” he admits with the Corriere della Sera, «and it is a reward not only to me, but to the whole team for having increased and consolidated the audience data and having retained the audience». Last October, the day after the electoral victory of comrade Giorgia Meloni, the First gentleman he had stepped back and left the leadership of Open Studio to “not be liable to criticism”. In January, then, always in his words, “when the government had taken off”, he was back on video in the in-depth program of the Tg4but not every day. “In Rome, I have to look after a daughter,” she explained. Now that the program has changed cities, she says “I’m so much more serene” and rattles off thanks to the information director Mauro Crippa, the director of the Tg Andrea Pucci, the publisher Pier Silvio Berlusconi. “They trusted me. Even if I am parachuted or recommended for someone, I have shown that I understand a little something about TV. I’ve been doing it for almost twenty years. First day at Telenova, at 22, while still studying at the Catholic University».

In recent months, as an alleged parachute, how much did he have the nightmare of audience figures?

“I’ve never lived with that anxiety. I tried to respond to the management’s mandate, I concentrated on doing a job that I hope was pleasant, well-groomed, not screaming… Then I arrived that we were at 4 percent or less, now we are well beyond that, with peaks of eight. It’s nice, but for me it’s more important to be intellectually honest and to work with a beautiful team that doesn’t change. Emanuela Sandali and Eliano Rossi, my two praetorians, will follow me from Milan: if we got here, it’s thanks to them that they put their heads into it».

Why had the newspapers been writing about a prime time talk for months?

«It is a hypothesis that has never been discussed. They are rumors spread, perhaps out of envy, perhaps to burn me. But if I had to worry about rumors and envies I would never leave the house again. Now I can say it freely: we had our eyes on us, but in the end we showed that we know how to do our thing without any help from home, as some have hypothesized».

When you gave a preview of the Prime Minister’s video message on May 1st, sites and newspapers wrote that you had an “advantage.

«It’s not that I only had that video. It had been announced for 3.30pm. I go on the air at 3.35 pm: in your opinion, if it had been by Mario Draghi or Giuseppe Conte or Pippo Pluto and I’m the first to give it, wouldn’t I? And I don’t throw it with emphasis? However, it is the video of the Prime Minister, not of my grandmother changing her dentures ».

Usually, the program has an opening on politics and foreign affairs, followed by a lot of news. Will anything change?

«The news makes plays, but everyone has their own figure. I prefer politics, but everything is political, even in the disappearance of little Kata there is political responsibility, as in so many episodes of violence: if you relegate crap to the suburbs, it is obvious that something bad will happen. I would like to implement the story of real life. I would like to give more and more elements to form an opinion: if we talk about the poor, I want to hear from the poor lady before the columnist who is not poor. Then, the talks that work are the “branded” ones, the ones where you feel a personality and say: I’m looking at Paolo Del Debbio, I’m looking at Mario Giordano».

Is this the ambition? To make people say: am I looking at Andrea Giambruno?

«For now, I’m a humble journalist who does his thing, but it can’t even be that every day someone on social media or in newspapers has to explain to me how to ask questions and what to say and that I’m also criticized for the tie, or for the moccasins with blue sole. I am the terminal of a working group that gets busy every day and is bringing home the results. You have to have respect for them even if you don’t like me. If you don’t like me, there’s that democratic moment where you can change the channel. And in any case, I’m not there by divine will: if I don’t listen, they remove me ».

But are blue-soled shoes as luxurious as women’s Louboutins with red soles?

«I take them from an affordable shop in front of Montecitorio, an area where I happen to pass, I don’t buy them for the color of the sole. But all the gratuitous inferences don’t bother me, but for Giorgia. It’s thinking of her that they attack me claiming that “disappear” is a word I’ve used, but it doesn’t exist. “Disappearance” is in the Italian dictionary: “That very sad news of the disappearance of the countess”, writes Ippolito Nievo. At least I know Italian, but with me many are on the listening committee».

How difficult were these six months of commuting between Rome and Milan?

«They were because from Monday to Thursday I was unable to take care of my daughter and we all know how much her mother works. I had the hope that something would change because it’s not nice to hear “dad you’re never here” or that someone else picks her up at school. In Milan, I miss my daughter».

When did you regret not being there?

«You’re not at the dance recital, you’re not at the end of the year party, they send you videos because you’re not there, it’s Father’s Day at school and you’re not there. It’s not like the world is coming down, for heaven’s sake, the girl is serene and growing well. I’m just sorry I’m not there.”

Will there be any family vacations?

“I don’t know, I think with the closure of parliamentary work, but if you ask me if there is anything planned, still nothing”.

Were you also in Borgo Egnazia at Meloni’s inspections for the G7 that caused so much discussion?

«Yes and thank God I wasn’t on the state plane: I paid for the flight and car on my own, all verifiable. I went to pick up my daughter, who I hadn’t seen for a week.’

Giorgia said about her, a Modern Woman: «He is a father who reaches where I cannot». Where does he come for example?

«She is an impeccable mother, but I think living in her shoes is not easy: you have great responsibilities and there are situations in which you don’t have the time that your daughter requires or that you would like. Humanly, you feel bad about it, every parent knows it. For this, I try to make up for it. I want Ginevra not to miss her so much. She happens to pick her up from school and ask her if she wants to say hello to mom. At Palazzo Chigi, she puts herself in a small office next to her mother’s, draws little drawings of her and is happy because she spends the afternoon with her mother. I do it, as everyone would do, for my daughter’s sake and for Giorgia to be well. I don’t think I’m doing anything exceptional.”

Minister Daniela Santanchè under investigation, undersecretary Andrea Delmastro accused: do you agree with the note from Palazzo Chigi accusing the magistrates of opposing?

«I am a guarantor by nature and by the Constitution. Now, with all the more reason, Minister Carlo Nordio is right to complete the justice reform».

In the book on the “powerful ones of Giorgia” by Paolo Madron and Luigi Bisignani, it is written that she is always with Dimitri, Santanchè’s companion.

«Yes, in the Porsche, like Miami Vice. And let’s go buy cashmere sweaters. In summer. But do you think? Buying cashmere in August? I would be insane. He and Daniela have been kind and hospitable to me, but I’m not addicted of Forte dei Marmi».

The book also argues that if the powerful Delta structure that decides everything still existed within Mediaset, you would be part of it.

“Absolutely yes. I’m the boss.”

How did the journalistic investigation into Casa Meloni hurt you, about the father with reckless affairs, about the stepsisters “kept hidden”?

“What came of it? What wrongdoing? If I don’t talk to my father or sister will it be my business? I was sad to see Giorgia suffer, because we were talking about a man who, even if he lived with him, is still the father and is no longer there. I’ve gotten used to exploitation: they call me Mr. Meloni, as if I didn’t have a surname or professionalism and patience. But there must be a limit to what can be written about the Prime Minister».

Daily fact

he called it the «Beppe Vessicchio of conferences».
Does she really lead them all?

“Am I the only one who moderates them? Do we want to make the list of all colleagues? If my director Andrea Pucci gives me the consent, I can do what I want. They wrote that I work for lobbies. Lobby of what? They mention Copasir, a bank, a state company: they are not lobbies».

At least the last ones he said are stakeholder companies.

“But where is the crime? They write “it would be appropriate”. But who decides if it is appropriate? A collegue?”.

You and Giorgia have been to see Checco Zalone in the theatre. And he, from the stage: don’t make me look like the president is here, she preferred me to karaoke with Macron.
«He is a talent, the joke came out well. Spending time with him is fun, we had a day together with him singing and playing the guitar, we had a lot of fun. Obviously in the immense vast Apulian farms that enjoy prestige thanks to us».

Speaking of karaoke: Giorgia caused a sensation for singing Fabrizio De Andrè at Matteo Salvini’s birthday. Did she sing too?

«I’m not in tune, Giorgia is a lot. De Andrè’s songs are her workhorse, Marinella’s “offending” song also sings it to our daughter to put her to sleep. It’s not that De Andrè only sings it from the left».

When is the appointment with Diary of the day all his?

“September 4th. I’ll wait for you in blue-soled shoes.’