The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, announced this Friday her separation from her until now partner, the journalist Andrea Giambruno, after the embarrassing sexist comments she made at a closed microphone during her television program to a colleague were broadcast on television. job.
"My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which has lasted almost ten years, ends here. I thank her for the wonderful years we spent together, for the difficulties we went through and for giving me the most important thing in my life, which is our daughter Ginevra." , the leader of Brothers of Italy announced in a publication on social networks, in an image of both of them with their daughter.
The premier explains that their paths separated a long time ago, so it is time to “take note” “I will defend what we were, I will defend our friendship and I will defend, at all costs, a seven-year-old girl who loves her mother and He loves his father, like I couldn't love mine. I have nothing more to say about it,” she continues, remembering the painful abandonment she suffered from her father when she was just a child.
The announcement comes after Giambruno, in recent months, has been in the eye of the hurricane for some of the positions he held as presenter of Diario del giorno, a Mediaset journalistic program. But the straw that broke the camel's back came this week, after the comedy program Striscia la notizia, from the same television group, broadcast conversations that he had at closed microphone with his co-workers.
It all started on Wednesday, when they published some images recorded during a break in the program in which he showed off his hair and made other off-color comments, even going so far as to ask a journalist: "Why haven't I met you before?" But in yesterday's broadcast she went further, telling a coworker phrases like: "Can I touch my package while I talk to you?", "Are you engaged?" or "Are you an open-minded person?" "Do you know that I and (XXXXX) are having a story? All of Mediaset knows it, now you know it too, but we are looking for a third participant because we do trios, even quartets with...", he is heard saying. After her, she asks him if she would join “her work group” and, when she answers affirmatively and asks if she should take an “aptitude test,” he replies, “Yes, he fucks.”
It is not the first time that the journalist has embarrassed the prime minister. At the end of August, after the case of a group rape in Palermo became known that shocked Italy, Giambruno made headlines for a controversial phrase in which he claimed that women who do not get drunk "avoid the wolf." “If you are going to dance, you have every right to get drunk, there should not be any kind of misunderstanding. But if you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, perhaps you also avoid certain problems because then you find the wolf,” said the Mediaset presenter.
Meloni's until now romantic partner had already been criticized by the progressive press in July for some words that were labeled as climate denialism when he joked about the heat wave that was hitting Italy as something that "is not great news." A phrase also caused a stir against the German Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, who had assured that climate change was “destroying southern Europe” and that if things continued like this, tourism in Italy would have no “long-term” future. . “If it doesn't seem right to you, you stay at home. “You are in the Black Forest, you are fine, right?” the journalist then stated.
The Italian prime minister met Giambruno in 2014, when she was only the leader of a new Italian far-right party called Brothers of Italy. She appeared as a guest on a television program called Quinta Colonna. She arrived in a hurry, hungry, and during a commercial break she asked her assistant to bring her something to eat. She brought him a banana, but she still hadn't finished it when she was due to return live. It was then that a journalist who worked on the program, Andrea Giambruno, ran to snatch the fruit from her hand. “The only thing I was missing was Meloni live with a banana,” he recalled to the Italian press. Months later, they met again on a broadcast and Meloni sent him a message. Thus began a relationship from which Ginevra, their seven-year-old daughter, was born. They never married, despite the Italian prime minister's fierce defense of the traditional family.
"All those who hoped to weaken me by hitting me at home should know that no matter how much the drop hopes to pierce the stone, the stone remains a stone and the drop is only water," Meloni warned in his publication this morning.
