Stefania Orlando: “Dreaming of returning to lead”

The day after the final of Big Brother Vip who saw her finish third behind Pierpaolo Pretelli and his friend Tommaso Zorzi, Stefania Orlando He “dangled” around his home in Rome trying to measure up to the life he had left hanging six months earlier. “I felt dizzy, the phone wouldn’t stop ringing and my husband showed me all the videos, telling me a thousand things: it was a very chaotic week on a mental level, so much so that I don’t remember much »explains Stefania on the phone, almost lost at the idea of ​​no longer having the cameras behind her to follow her every step, her every movement.

“Before leaving, I imagined that it was easy to regain possession of your own life and daily life instead, once you are out, you feel that you are missing something, a certain sense of protection that, instead, you perceived inside the House” Orlando still insists, literally catapulted into a whirlwind of discussions on social networks and proposals to be evaluated that put her in a state of perennial adrenaline, as if she were always at attention.

Among which he elected her the moral winner of the Big Brother Vip longest in history – “If I could have voted, I would have voted Tommaso. For me it was already a great victory to reach the podium, I could not have hoped for better “- and who continues to call her” viperella “reproaching her for her excessive frankness, Stefania Orlando is in a very special moment in her life: she is enjoying the ‘affection of her husband Simone Gianlorenzi and her dog Margot, who is seventeen years old, and looks to the future with the right amount of positivity and concern, hoping that the insiders decide to make her come back around the main door that she deserves to cross again one time.

When I heard Tommaso Zorzi, he said get out of the Big Brother Vip it was like being in a blender: is that also true for you?
“In some ways, yes, not to mention that the impact with Covid was further traumatic: inside the House we lived a quiet life, made up of kisses and hugs because we were monitored daily and buffered every week. In going out there was also this factor to be reckoned with. After spending 6 months in there you are missing something, you cannot immediately turn the page ».

What was she missing?
“After GF, my house seemed very small to me. At night I would get up convinced to enter the confessional and every now and then I turned to look for the camera: the first day went a bit like this but then, little by little, almost everything returns to the same as before, even if I still can’t sleep 7 hours of row”.

Why?
“Because I’m hungry and, very often, I get up at night to eat. But then I start thinking. I realized that on social media, by now, controversy is unleashed for a comma more or less, so I think I will do a bit of detox very soon: I would like to get away from the idea a little Big Brother, go beyond”.

When she came back to reality, she must have realized that the Internet is crazy about her.
“It’s new to me, and quite rewarding too. I was struck by the affection of an audience very different from what I had before, younger and more feminine, and this makes me very happy: I admire women for their essence and their intelligence, their multitasking. The fact of being appreciated by them is more gratifying than being appreciated by men ».

I would like to say that she has strengthened her relationship with the homosexual public, but I think back to the speech that Alfonso Signorini made to her and her response: she said that friendships transcend sexuality.
«I think Alfonso has been misinterpreted: his intention had another flavor, he wanted to highlight a certain affinity of mine with the gay world, an innate and not sought-after affinity. I don’t select people, I can’t stand those who say “I have many gay friends”, but neither do those who say “I have many friends” because I, for example, have very few. We know each other very well with Alfonso, and it is obvious that he too agreed on the fact that one cannot choose a person only if he is homosexual ».

She said that her husband showed her all the videos: did she find herself in those images?
«I have seen who I am, my fragile part and my strong part. I think the public has noticed this very maternal and very protective aspect of me, but also the desire to speak in the face and to be honest, also risking arousing reactions. But that’s how I am, I don’t speak behind people’s backs. So yes, I saw myself in my strengths and weaknesses. Having one, after all, is a natural thing. There are no perfect people ».

Moving on social media is now a minefield also to pursue a certain type of perfection. Do you ever get anxious about posting or replying the wrong thing?
«A lot, also because we can’t make everyone happy. I love constructive criticism, but I hate the gratuitous insult. On social media you meet a bit of everything, but I must say that my husband showed me only the good things. I forced myself a little not to see the negative videos that could crack the bonds I built there: I want to preserve all these positive sensations, I feel the need ».

Speaking of positive sensations: last week you met with Tommaso Zorzi and Gabriel Garko, what have you been up to?
«But nothing, there was a lot of tales about this meeting on social media, but it simply happened that Tommaso came to dinner with me. I had also seen him in Milan the week before. The fact that he also knows Gabriel is another matter ».

Gabriel Garko who, right inside the Casa del Big Brother Vip, wrote a television page announcing his homosexuality.
“It was a beautiful page. I think Gabriel felt the need to come out because, evidently, he felt ready to do so: I am always in favor of people who decide to free themselves, even if I don’t think it is an obligation ».

I return to social media because I have seen that, since theIsland of the Famous, has rediscovered Twitter.
«I comment on it because Tommaso is here, and it stimulates me. Having taken part in a reality show, I see them with different eyes, even if theIsola it’s a world apart, as you have to bring physical strength and endurance into play. I don’t think I could ever do it: just watching the castaways in the first episode I felt tired. Even if the GF it was very tiring on a psychological level, at least we had food, a bed, a bathroom. In terms of comfort we were covered ».

The GF Vip it was his first reality show: was it the right time to do it?
«In my opinion, yes, I wanted to throw myself. When Alfonso called me, I immediately thought it would be an opportunity to make myself known, even if I didn’t think I was inside all that time. I was just hoping that the public would know me outside of my institutional role, the one in which you remain entangled when you hold a certain role for a long time. It was the right time to try because now I feel a resolute and serene woman ».

What was she like as a girl instead?
“She dreamed of being an independent and autonomous woman and, in hindsight, I think I succeeded. I wanted to be a satisfied, working woman ».

The first job?
“I sold apartments in a real estate agency for six years, at one point I also became an office supervisor. I always woke up early and I always rolled up my sleeves: the choice of the show came in a very causal way ».

That is?
“I sold the house to a couple and he, who was working for Fininvest at the time, offered me to go and audition with Corrado who was looking for a small valley for The Bullfight. After various insistences, always for the rule that it is better to say yes than no, I went to the casting with my real estate agent suit, made up and with the body underneath: Corrado chose me, but not for the Running, but for a morning program conducted by Claudio Lippi. There my adventure on TV began which then continued naturally with Guardì, with Mediaset, with Rai. I liked it, I was very lucky, but as a girl I had no artistic ambitions. At 16 I did something as a model, also because my father had signed me up for a course in posture ».

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Certainly nothing has been denied, since over the years she has also dabbled as an actress and singer.
“Oh my God, actress is a big word: I did a little something because I like communication, a discourse that is also valid on a musical level. I like to have a relationship with the public even if it is a bit strange, since I have always been very shy: I still am, but I continue to love what I do and want to do it in the future too ».

Have you ever thought that shyness could be a plus?
“For a long time I thought I never had to show it, but with the GF everything has changed: you can’t pretend there. I have discovered that, at times, frailties and shyness can also be pleasing ».

Do you think a woman who says what she thinks is still intimidating today?
“Maybe, and that’s why it’s great when you meet people who love you for who you are: it’s a sort of natural sorting. My friends of the heart love me because I don’t always say that everything is fine and I am sincere, even if many things I don’t even let myself go through ”.

For example?
«Every now and then I tend to dot the i’s, but not always: it depends on the situations. There’s one part of me that’s white and the other that’s black, but maybe I should start looking for gray. ‘

What do you see for the future? White? Black? Grey?
“I hope my private life remains as it is because it is perfect. For the job, I would love to go back to lead, to have a program, to co-lead. Do my job ».

It happened to Adriana Volpe last year.
“Exact”.

Although many hope he will do something with Thomas beyond theIsland Off.
«That will be a guest: the rest is to be written. The only thing I would like is that this immense love of the public can also come from the experts, that’s all. “