Ilaria Capponi case: why the problem of live body shaming cannot be solved with censorship on RaiPlay

It's time to say enough to a television that slides towards gratuitous offense and inappropriate comments then erase everything with a sponge basking in the knowledge that what outrages the public today will soon give way to what will outrage the public tomorrow. Yet we should be increasingly careful about what we say and how we say it because our words have weight and can hurt more than a stab, especially when, on World Day against Eating Disorders, they are addressed to a person like Ilaria Capponi who survived those ailments. Another thing we should learn, however, is to listen to others and try to be sensitive to their testimonies.

What happened on Rai1 on Saturday 16 March to Ilaria Capponi, former model and former basketball player who came third in Miss Italyone meter eighty-one tall, size 42, he is very serious not only for that very violent and cruel comment about the low backside that Mauro Coruzzi uttered as Capponi walked away from the studio, but also the attitude that Guillermo Mariottostylist and judge of Dancing with the Starshad with her during the interview at Italy Yes conducted, exceptionally, by Gianluca Semprini. When, for example, Capponi said that once, during the backstage of a fashion show, she saw some models eating what looked like cotton candy to her but which, in reality, was cottonMariotto said that the models are «better to dress them than to feed them», adding that they eat a lot and always rush to the buffet “because they are tall”.

Ilaria CapponiPietro D'Aprano/Getty Images

A comment that the studio audience shamefully welcomed with a applause without observing the slightest sensitivity towards Ilaria Capponi and her testimony. We don't want the compromising clips to disappear the next day from RaiPlay, but we want the public service to select guests with care and professionalism.