«The Island of the Famous 2021»: Ilary Blasi’s gaffes and the silence that divides

“Today is March 18, Thursday, and as you have heard from all the news is the national day in memory of the victims of Covid-19. Mediaset also participates in this important commemoration: the whole studio, and I in particular, send a hug to all the families who have lost loved ones during the epidemic. I ask everyone to stand up for a minute of meditation ». Thus, in the silence of a studio with the public spaced out and propped up with masks, the second episode of the new edition of theIsland of the Famous, the first after the outbreak of the emergency that delayed the broadcasting of the program by a year precisely to try to allow the production to proceed safely.

The invitation is pronounced by the hostess Ilary Blasi, also touched in the first person not only for having tested positive together with her husband Francesco Totti, but also for having lost her father-in-law Enzo, who died at the age of 76.

Despite the meditation, however, someone from home cannot fail to point out one thing: that the silence was observed only in the studio and did not involve the castaways in Honduras. If so, would Daniela Martani, enlisted by the program because of her no-vax positions towards the epidemic, would have agreed to join the commemoration? How would it be managed? Needless to say, the production has seen fit to get rid of the embarrassment and to limit the tribute to the studies in Milan, even if the accusation of hypocrisy for the memory of the victims of Covid after having chosen to involve a castaway who has always talked about “Health dictatorship” and useless masks made many turn up their noses. For the rest, the second episode ofIsland of the Famousas we know this year there are two weekly appointments, Monday and Thursday, taking up the same line already taken by Big Brother Vip – has reserved few surprises and a few flashes.

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Beyond the elimination of Viscount Guglielmotti, who did not return to Italy but reached Fariba Tehrani and Ubaldo Lanzo on Parasite Island – what was once the Ultima Spiaggia, then Playa Desnuda, and finally Playa Soledad – and the very boring trials between the Buriños and the Rafinados, Ilary Blasi is once again saving the shack. Thanks to his faux pas – like when you mistake the island for “the house” of Big Brother which has led for three years – and the misunderstaning caused by the audio – like when she asks Akash if he’s “bogged down” or when Elisa Isoardi thinks Ilary said Brando had just arrived rather than she was a “pack leader” – it is precisely these interludes that guaranteeIsola the lightness that the format needs. Lightness, unfortunately, not at all guaranteed in Honduras by the presence of Massimiliano Rosolino as a correspondent but, fortunately, amply compensated in the studio not only thanks to Ilary, but thanks to the columnist Tommaso Zorzi who, together with his “Z Point” and the digs in Akash, balances the vulgarity, sometimes excessive, of his colleague Iva Zanicchi.

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