Simona Ventura and Paola Perego: the revenge of two professionals who didn’t have an easy life

It often happens in today’s world that taking backward steps is considered something inappropriate and dangerous, and it is fortunate that Simona Ventura And Paola Perego don’t think that way. Reinventing yourself, finding the right way to present yourself to the public was, according to Raffaella Carrà, the best way to stay within the cone of light, and this is precisely what Simona and Paola did. They did it by joining forces, giving themselves support in the face of many – too many – beatings to create a new path and to allow spectators to get to know them in a new guise. Both Simona Ventura and Paola Perego they hosted highly successful prime time programs, have achieved extraordinary credibility and artistic authority and have rightfully entered the door of the great professionals of Italian television. Over time, as was logical to expect, considering that both Simona Ventura and Paola Perego never told them, things changed.

With the move to Sky and the farewell to X Factor, Simona Ventura struggled to find her place again accepting questionable compromises – such as participation in theIsland of the Famousi.e. the program that she herself brought to success on Rai – and coming out great in the presence of delicate situations like the one faced during the hosting of Temptation Island VIP, when she found herself in spite of herself help her ex-husband Stefano Bettarini and Nicoletta Larini to make peace in front of the bonfire. Paola Perego, on the other hand, in recent years has suffered from being the wife of manager Lucio Presta in different environments: from the journalistic one to the television one, given that the immediate closure of Let’s talk about it on Saturday because of that survey on Ukrainian women it seemed much less serious than many other lapses in style that public television has been indulging in in recent months and towards which not a finger has ever been raised. Added to this are panic attacks which Perego courageously chose to talk about in a beautiful book – Behind the scenes of my fears (Piemme) – which has helped so many people understand that they are not alone.

Hence the desire of Simona Ventura and Paola Perego to get together to first give life to a light and lively program like Rai2 intercomwhich is broadcast on Sunday morning, in a slot that neither of the two presenters had ever tested on Rai, and to try their hand at an effervescent participation in Dancing with the Stars, where they represent the highlights of a cast that borders on perfection. TO Dancing, both Simona and Paola bring out happiness and fun by demonstrating that they willingly accept the fact of no longer being at the helm of a story but an integral part of it. On the one hand there is Simona Ventura, who dances very well but is told by the judges that she is no longer as combative as she used to be given that he dribbles the most biting comments with great elegance and education; on the other there is Paola Perego, so dedicated to the program that she skipped when three of her ribs cracked without compromising her descent on the track. In different ways, Simona Ventura and Paola Perego are two survivors who have never given up, and the fact of seeing them give light-heartedness and timidity to the public with their heads held high is a gift that we feel we must hold on to.