Victoria Cabello: “My crazy return to TV (and to life)”

But how much had we missed Victoria Cabello? Here she is with her trademark bangs, which throws a joke as if to make it clear immediately that the tone of the interview can only be ironic, as always, in her style. “As Kim Kardashian would say, Beijing Express it was an experience life-changing»He says pretending seriousness. Participation in Beijing ExpressKim Kardashian aside, certainly marks her official comeback on TV, after eight long years of absence. The last show where we laughed at Victoria’s jokes was X Factor, year 2014. Then, nothing more. Lyme disease, a debilitating infection that was diagnosed after a long time, had forced her to take a break from work.

A sudden and unsolicited stop for a unique presenter who had never stopped for twenty years. Veejay to MTV when MTV was the reference par excellence of the teenagers of the nineties, crazy correspondent of the Hyenas who asked George Clooney to marry her, author and host of quality programs such as Victor Victoriato the official guide of Sanremo and to the crazy one of Those who … football, without knowing anything about football. Now with her friend Paride Vitale, Victoria forms the couple of “Pazzeschi”, which on Sky, from 10 March, is measured along the “route of the sultans”, between Turkey, Uzbekistan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. There is no best kept secret in the world than the winners of Beijing Express, but on the general lines of the program one can comment: «When on television, I thought that with the cameras off, someone would pass you a sandwich, that it wasn’t so hard. But I was wrong: it’s all true, it’s all pushed to the extreme of strength. The authors’ game is: let’s get them out of their minds, ”she says.

What is the thing that struck her the most of Beijing Express?
“The hardness. I thought all the time: but these are crazy. And then the kindness and generosity of the people: people who gave up everything to give a ride to an idiot with a backpack and found themselves 200 kilometers away. In Italy it would not be possible, certainly not in Milan, but it would be nice to make a Napoli edition. Discovering that there are such generous people also improves your life ».

Is she generous?
“It’s bad to tell yourself. I’m sure I’m someone you can rely on. I think I have been lucky in life and I try to give back a little to others ».

She’s lucky?
“Well, you make a little bit of luck. I’ve had ass in my life but I’ve also worked a lot ».

Who is Paride Vitale, his companion in the adventures of Beijing Express?
“He is my best friend. We have known each other for twenty years, I wanted a person who knew me for better or for worse and he is the first person that came to my mind. Nicknamed the Bisgnani’s Beijing (the reference is to the fixer Luigi Bisignani, ed), he is a genius of relationships and strategies, but above all he is a lovable, empathetic and generous person “.

On Instagram he wrote that Beijing to her it represented three things: “Get out of mine comfort zone, give my analyst new material and provide embarrassing anecdotes to friends. ‘ Shall we start with the analyst?
“My analyst was a key figure, without her I would not have agreed to participate in the program. For a long time I stopped due to an illness which was very severe. And it’s hard to get out of comfort zone of the disease “.