Dancing with the Stars 2021: what is (really) behind Al Bano’s retirement

The adventure of To the bathroom to the sixteenth edition of Dancing with the Stars. It was the strongest name, the one that Milly Carlucci courted with more insistence and for the longest time chasing him in the airports, yet the singer from Cellino San Marco on the runway gave himself little, a bit for a televoting that did not prove particularly lenient towards him, and a little for the injury of his teacher Oxana Lebedew which, since the first episode, has limited Al Bano in the movements and in the preparation of the paintings. Hence the chivalrous decision to abandon the game to allow her dance partner to get back on her feet without making an effort: «I would like Oxana to go and get cured because otherwise she risks her exceptional career. I’m stuck there… for you, for his health, for his art! I don’t want to feel responsible for anything. I take the responsibility to go away », Al Bano said during the episode of October 30th, even if the social networks have raised some doubts about the genuineness of the motivation.

According to various internet users, including Davide Maggio, in fact, it seems that Al Bano had made some singing commitments around Eastern Europe just for the month of November: commitments that he could not have honored had he still been tied to Dancing with the Stars. The hypothesis, therefore, is that the singer may have signed a special contract to appear in the Rai1 program only for a certain number of episodes. The motivation would hold up for a simple reason: the failure to replace Oxana Lebedew with another dancer. It is not the first time that a Dancing a master is injured but, in those cases, a substitution has always been chosen that would allow the competitor to continue competing. Why was it decided not to proceed in the same way with Al Bano? Regarding the voice of his upcoming concerts in Poland and Bulgaria, the singer returned to express himself during the program Intercom Rai2, lashing out against social media and their bad faith, but revealing the existence of a certain performance date.

Oxana Lebedew and Al Bano at Dancing with the Stars 2021

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“I only have a television on day 5 in Santiago de Compostela. I only have that and I defend it. I am not leaving for reasons that you are bragging about, “Al Bano specified. It must also be said that many of the concerts scheduled for the month of November have been postponed due to Covid, but it would, however, be interesting to find out if the postponement was decided before or after the signing of the contract with the production. It is not the first time that Al Bano leaves a program in the middle: it had already happened at the third edition ofIsland of the Famous from which he retired after Loredana Lecciso’s announcement to leave him. Even there, however, someone wondered if there was a time contract, given that the singer, now 78, had decided to give up not at the time of the announcement, but a week later, in the live episode. However things are, it’s a pity that Al Bano doesn’t dance anymore: we are sure that he would have had much more to give and to demonstrate. To the jury and the public.

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