The story of Victoria Cabello and Paride Vitale begins seventeen years before their triumph a Beijing Express thanks to a phone call. «At the time I was working for the Mini, I had cars that I gave as pr. One day I hear Vicky why she had to go to Sanremo: I give her the address to which she should have gone to pick her up, but on the phone she tells me that she was writing her speeches and that I should have brought the car to her “, says Paride seated at a sunny table on a Milanese terrace, at the end a House of Lords aplomb begins. That evening, Victoria was alone in the restaurant and, taken by the curiosity to meet the stranger, asked him to stop for dinner with her: “In the end I gave him a ride home and we discovered that we lived twenty meters away: at the end of the evening we exchanged numbers and we never separated “, adds Victoria Cabello, who was at the Festival that year to follow the backstage of the characters who gravitated around the festival.
Being their company makes me immediately realize that the Pazzeschi, out of range of the cameras of Beijing Express, are exactly what the public would expect: accomplices, brilliant, able to complete each other’s sentences, as if they were a married couple, the same one they pretended to be at Beijing to get accommodation for the night. «The bad thing was when they asked us: ‘what about the children?’. I sketched, replied: “God only knows how hard we try” », Paris jokes. “The women consoled me,” you’ll see that they will come. “I would have loved to say to them: but if I am 50 on each leg!”, Vicky resumes, giving life to a curtain so crazy that it’s a real shame that no one has immortalized it in a video. Not bad: enjoy our interview with the (unexpected) winners of Beijing Express and work your imagination imagining the facial expressions and the tone of amazement that literally made us fall in love with them when, every Thursday, we tuned in to Sky to follow them.
Let’s start with the preliminaries: who thought of the name Pazzeschi?
Victoria Cabello: «We had thought of them all: the Super Pops, the Best Friends, the Porta Venezia, but we just couldn’t get to a square. At one point the authors suggest the Pazzeschi to us and we were blown away. Of course, on the other hand, we imagined that we would have made sure a shit figure because, with that name, we would have greatly raised everyone’s expectations: in the end it was almost a self-fulfilling prophecy ».
Let’s go back even further: the phone call from Beijing Express when did it arrive?
VC: “They asked me every year but, on this tour, Costantino insisted a lot: Pechinor was it what I had been waiting for all my life, but I didn’t know it. After the illness I was closed in a comfort zone where I didn’t want to ruin any balance achieved. I knew, however, that the only one with whom I would do it would be Paris: we have known each other for a lifetime, she was sure that I would have fun with him. I said to myself: if I call him and he says yes, it is a sign ».
Paride Vitale: «The problem is, when he asked me to go to Beijing, I was already trying to figure out which agency to contact to book the flight, because I thought it was referring to the city ».
VC: “I called my agent and told him: okay, let’s do this bitch, we’ll get out right away.”
In fact, Paris had moved forward by organizing his agenda already two weeks after your departure …
PV: «I had the launch of Gomorrah: I remember telling my agency that I would be back in time. I had also made two appointments with two clients, but I never showed up ».
Instead, in spite of forecasts, you finished first.
VC: “It was the icing on the cake, but by the time you get to that point, you already know you’ve given everything you can. At least we would have been the Måneskin of Beijing. We said to ourselves: the course was so beautiful that we can’t help but have fun even in the final ».
PV: “After the first and second episodes, we didn’t think we would have surpassed the others”.
VC: “The strategy of getting back to the last and working people on it saved us: Paride and I have no talent, but we are empathetic. People loved us immediately, fell in love with us and were willing to do anything to help us. “
PV: “Suffice it to say that Vicky, who is incapable of cooking, eventually cooked for everyone.”
VC: “I’m shit. But I threw myself ».
Victoria, the experience of Beijing Express it came after four difficult years, but you have always been close: what did you understand most about friendship?
VC: «In that moment I closed myself very much with respect to the world and I cut so many dead branches, so much noise around that it gave me nothing. However, true friends remain, the ones you know you can count on. In some very strange way, that period took away from me but also gave me a lot. I learned many things, even in the condition of fragility: to try to myself to be strong, also thanks to the few people who had remained close to me ».
In this, Beijing Express what was that?
VC: “Shock therapy. I left behind the residues and the things that I needed to process in order to find myself: I had lost myself ».
And now she has found herself. Reassure us: will we see you together again on TV?
VC: «The couple in my opinion would also work out of Beijingwe would love to try to do something together ».
PV: “It must be said that she is the driver: it would still be Vicky’s program and I would go there to bear it.”
VC: “Endure it or support it?”
PV: “Support it.”
VC: “Note the slip.”
PV: “Seriously, a Beijing I realized that I only worked with her: I would go out with anyone else after two hours. We had a lot of fun with Vicky ».
VC: “Having a wrong shoulder can ruin the balance of a couple. We have natural times that it would be nice to be able to take somewhere else ».
Don’t ask me why, but I would see you a lot at an institutional ceremony like the David di Donatello.
PV: “But I look great in a tuxedo.”
VC: “Sometimes, in those very institutional contexts, they try to do something different, but then it always comes back to tradition. Not everyone takes irony very well, not everyone plays on things, but it would be a lot of fun. We will be like the “Sons Di” in Sanremo ».
PV: “Among other things, we know Piera Detassis.”
VC: “It would be the hell of many: Paris and Victoria leading the David di Donatello”.
Meanwhile, already think about the outfit.
VC: «The tuxedo k-way. TO Beijing I was afraid that, if we showed up tanned, nobody would load us into the car: we had to have something presentable with us so, talking to Nick Cerioni, I thought of an evening dress and a tailcoat in rainproof material to put inside a pouch . Before leaving, I tried on different dresses in his presence. I remember him saying to me: “This is very wrong, so it’s perfect.” The secret was to throw all the fucking shit on. “
Let’s close with a flourish: can you tell me when the Paris Ballet was born?
PV: «We were at an event in Trieste: once the driver, Peter, tells us that the most beautiful nightclub is in Slovenia so, thinking that no one would recognize Victoria there, we went. Inside, the vocalist yells her name and she decides to have a gin and tonic all in one go, and I do the same. To distract people we invent some silly stuff and start dancing ».
VC: “I did it once a guest came on the show: the authors liked it so much that they asked me to do it again with everyone else, but Paris didn’t know anything.”
PV: “On YouTube there is a video in which I do it too with Cortellesi, who said she would only do it with me because otherwise she was a whore.”
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