“Che tempo che fa”: from the hot tubs to the anti-wrinkle tutorials, the “revolution” by Luciana Littizzetto

For years we have been talking about women’s lounges and laboriously conquered spaces, but the truth is that certain topics and certain confidences between women continue to be taboo on television, as if the red light on the camera entailed a self-censorship that pushes the guest and the hostess to continue with the handbrake on, well aware of not being able to cross a certain threshold. Fortunately, that limit, often imposed also by promotional duties which, nine times out of ten, monopolizes the conversation in place, is slowly beginning to loosen, and the merit is all of Luciana Littizzetto which, from the self-management of What’s the weather like for the extraordinary absence of Fabio Fazio, began conducting interviews with female guests in an informal manner, free, putting her interlocutors so at ease that they forget to be filmed.

Lights you have to send it all up !!!@lucianinalitti @fabfazio @chetempochefa #CTCF pic.twitter.com/Rshc81VmqQ

– Alessia Marcuzzi (@lapinella) March 28, 2021

It happened with Antonella Clerici, who told of hot spots and breasts that fall “and become limp” after menopause, but also with Alessia Marcuzzi who, on the occasion of the promotion of her new body creams, spoke of the petulance of her husbands during the lockdown, of the photo of the pasta with four cherry tomatoes that she repeatedly posts on Instagram to demonstrate that she had learned to improvise something in the kitchen, and of a tutorial to put into practice before leaving home to make the skin smoother and brighter. Dispelling the myth that one is beautiful regardless and that it is enough to accept oneself to face the day with a smile, Alessia, pushed by Luciana, decides to spill the beans and explain the beauty ritual to which she undergoes every time she has to go out: with the tuppo on the head and the band pressed on the forehead, the two friends begin to pat each other’s cheeks and caress each other’s neck to smooth out the wrinkles, showing the viewer an unprecedented page of television, a freedom that seems to be a trifle but which, instead , it is essential for many reasons.

It is useless to make fun of us: certain topics on television are still considered off-limits because he believes they are not in the news and that people want to see more. It is not “advisable” for a woman of nearly fifty to go on TV and say she pinches and slaps herself to firm up her skin; just as it is not “advisable” for a mother to go on TV to say that newborn children are not as beautiful as they appear in photos but that they often appear as wrinkled creatures with capillaries in plain sight. The small revolution that Luciana Littizzetto is trying to promote a What’s the weather like with its guests starts from this: from being able to talk, discuss, laugh and exorcise even apparently less fascinating topics for the prized target of Raitre. It is sacrosanct that personalities like Nancy Pelosi and Giovanna Botteri carry the flag of professionalism high at three hundred and sixty degrees on television and in life, but it is also right that we try to open up to discussions that, if we think about it, we have never heard debated in prime time with some freedom.