Pippo Baudo, who is his historic assistant Dina Minna, at his side also at the funeral in Militello: “I lost a dad, he wanted to return to Sicily and it is right”

They described it in many ways. The most recurrent? “Guardian angel”. Speaking of the Disappearance of Pippo Baudo (on August 16th at 89 years old), she is often mentioned, The historical assistant of the conductor, Dina Minna. Talked as a discreet presence, he accompanied the conductor not only in his career as a secretariat but also in his life, remaining next to him until the end, at the medical organic campus in the capital, where he then died. To close the coffin of the historical face of the small screen there was only her next to her daughter Tiziana and the family lawyer Giorgio Assumma. After ten hours of travel, Diana also arrived in Militello for the funeral, before the burial next to the parents in the family tomb, and told theHANDLE: «He wanted to return to Sicily, it is right. He loved his land so much, and, having never fear of claiming it free from the mafia, when he could talk about it – he knows, nothing was held – he spoke about it. I want to call the priest to tell him ».

For decades (to be exact, she started just eighteen almost 36 years ago) Dina was the reference point of the insiders and the press because it managed the agenda of Pippo Baudo, the appointments and also the interviews since Every morning he arrived from him in his house in the center of via della Vite in Rome. “He didn’t even leave him a minute”as Franco Mariotti commented in 2007. And in a recent interview a The Republic He said: “Saturday I lost a dad.” He added: «He taught me everything, as one should behave when working, correctness, respect for others, rigor. That must always be committed; that in a group that collaborates, everyone’s work must be respected. That if you think of a project, you have to do if it is worth it ».

In the necrologists de The Corriere della Sera The name of Dina Minna, so far a silent and industrious shadow alongside the conductor, often occurs because editorial offices and friends remember her as a key presence in her life. According to an indiscretion of Dagospia In 2003 Pippo Baudo He left two properties By unleashing the wrath of Katia Ricciarelli, at the time his second wife (today the soprano, who gave the last farewell to the ex -husband in the burning room of the theater of the victories in Rome did not go to the funeral in Militello, in the province of Catania, for health reasons). The following year the two, who still lived in the separation of the assets, divorced.

Dina, who usually always called him by surname, During the funeral procession he shouted: “Hi Pippo” And he asked the escort of the car with the coffin to divert the route to make him pass in via della Giuliana, in the Prati district of Rome, for a last farewell to his historic office. “It was more there than at home, how many meetings we did.”

Talk Solar hour Di Paola Saluzzi in 2020 Pippo Baudo had described it as follows: “Thank you with all my heart, because for me it is really indispensable: it takes care of me, advises me, reassures me. I feel protected by her. He is much younger than me, yet, in front of her, I feel like a child ».