Beijing Express 2023: the controversy of the Lawyers and the elegance of Martina Colombari

Who knows Beijing Express he is well aware that couples begin to lose momentum around the middle of the journey, when the fatigue of the journey begins to get the better of the euphoria of the departure, but it is clear that something about this tour, either because of the heat or because of tiredness, has obviously gotten out of hand. During the second stage of the Sky adventure game produced by Banijay Italia, a 235 km long journey that led the couples to move from Kolhapur to Hampi, in fact, they were two competitors who did not feel well: Andrew Belfiore of the Italian Americans, who was unable to fully enjoy the bonus won together with Joe Bastianich for winning the immunity test, and the young Achille Costacurta who, again after taking part in the test, turned white as a sheet as he collapsed on himself. The production momentarily interrupted the recording while the production doctor intervened to make sure of the conditions of «Achi», as his mother affectionately calls him Martina Colombari: it is probable that the boy drank a little water and suffered a drop in blood pressure which, in fact, led his mother and son to spend the night in a hotel to allow Achilles to recover completely thanks to the help of a drip.

In all of this, Martina Colombari demonstrated the kind of superhuman strength that only mothers who care about their children’s health have. Without ever losing her temper, she tried to understand how Achilles was, letting him decide how to move. When she told her that she wanted to continue the competition, Martina did it, not without difficulty. As he slumped once more but was too determined to let go, Martina approached the side of the road and started hitchhiking alone, checking the boy’s condition even though, in his heart, he hoped he would admit he couldn’t make it and ask for a time-out. Which actually happened shortly after, even if in all this time Martina has never given up. several times during Beijing Express the former Miss Italy said she was proud of her child, to whom she nevertheless tried to teach a lesson at the time of the immunity test: after touring the length and breadth of the village of Govindakoppa in search of a basket containing Indian saris, Achilles has in fact surrendered, choosing not to proceed with the test and leaving Martina to carry those saris in the middle of the river and start washing them as prescribed by Costantino Della Gherardesca alone, without giving up.

It is probable that Costacurta Junior was not already feeling well, but Colombari did not throw in the towel, immediately transforming herself into the traveler we loved the most in the second episode of Beijing Express. An episode that is starting to make the public understand that certain couples, in order to win, are ready for anything: it is the case of Mediterranean Carolina Stramare and Barbara Prezia, who once again feigned sprains and crying fits to scrape together a few passages – spoilers, they succeeded – then delivering a masterstroke to the lawyers Alessandra Demichelis and Lara Picardi: in the final stages, realizing that they had mistaken the hill that would have welcomed them in the final stage, the Mediterraneans actually made the Avvocati believe that they had already reached the finish line, throwing them off the track. A masterful move that deserves a standing ovation but which, of course, did not please the lawyers, who are convinced that the two girls were helped by Bastianich and Belfiore immediately after receiving the bonus, even if that was not the case.

The discussion, which Enzo Miccio he described as a real one speechmade it clear to couples (but also a little to the public) that lawyers are no joke: Bastianich said that every reality show needs “bad guys” to work, and we agree with him, given that the lawyers are extremely functional to the story as were the Hypochondriacsi.e. the pair formed by Dario Vergassola and her daughter Caterina who, unfortunately, was forced to say goodbye Beijing Express at the hands of the Mediterraneans. Dario’s impromptu jokes were a breath of fresh air for everyone, they shored up the match and dampened the tension, and that’s why we will miss them a lot, with the hope that the adventure of Beijing can bring a cone of light back to Vergassola allowing us to re-appreciate it as soon as possible on TV.

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