Late March, Marcelo Tinelli put his signature on the contract with America TV to assume the role of artistic director of the signal and also confirmed the return of his classic cycle ShowMatch. And to top it off, this week he started his new role as artistic director in America.
Thus, Marcelo divides his time between work, his children, his friends and the rest of his family. A few days ago he gave an interview to People Magazine where he spoke of this new stage of his life.
From the Hotel Faena from Puerto Madero, the most important conductor of Argentine television since 1990, opened up: “I always worked in what are supposedly the leading channels, and in this case the truth was that the directors of America wanted to have a chat with me, and the first days of January they came to my house in Punta del Este, where they asked me to do Dancing and they accepted something I wanted: the Channel’s Content Management”
Then he explained the confidence he has in himself. “When I go out to play, I always go forward. You have to see how far the programs give you, the signal, budgetary, with what you can hit it. Think that I should have put together the 2023 schedule in August, September of last year, and I’m just starting now. There are a number of disadvantages. But this is a long-term job and for me TV is the medium par excellence, ”he explained.
Tinelli also accepted that he loves challenges and the passion he feels for the media. “Getting a team like that is a nice challenge, and I love challenges. On the other hand, I am passionate about the media: I don’t know how to do anything else. I am starting in something in which I have no experience, such as the programming sector. Do you know what I said the day I introduced myself? ‘I come to learn a lot of things here,’” acknowledged the father of Mica, Cande, Francisco, Juana and Lawrence.
Later, he continued:I live learning. I’ve been on TV for thirty-four years. My children, from Micaela to Lorenzo, have been teaching me how everyone’s tastes have been transformed. I give a lot of ball to them. That TikTok, that the fashionable cumbia bands, that electronic music. I have been updating at his side, with his likes and suggestions”.
In a short time another broadcast of dancing 2023, since its last edition in 2019. “I always felt that Bailando had one more lap left, I am convinced. He ended very well in 2019. It happens that the pandemic caught him. How can you define if something is bad or good with mask technicians and a studio without people in the studio? I have been watching old Rhythm programs from the 90s. The gallery of a thousand people seemed wonderful to me in that studio D of Telefe, in San Cristóbal. I like people, and for me Dancing is what could not be done in a pandemic. I am talking about four essential walls for the program: those who dance in the back, a jury, the audience that harangues, like Bombonerita, and the part that accompanies me, on the side, ”he explained.
If something characterizes Marcelo Tinelli, it is the affection that the public has always felt for him and the support that he has given him through so many years of work. “People ask me in the street: ‘Come back, make us laugh!’ But I understand that today the mood of that time also changed.
In this regard, the driver clarified that “he would love to have his classic judges: Pampita, Polino, Moria Casán and Angel De Brito”. Regarding the participants, he confessed that the negotiations are already advanced. “We are going to have between eighteen and twenty couples. Some well-known characters, others may come more from the networks. And we are doing a big casting. They have been sending us videos to the turkey. We will also have a streaming that will be seen at the same time on YouTube. I spoke with Nico Occhiato so that he can do it. Also with Ferbo. People who have it clear ”.
Regarding the fictions that he hopes to be able to generate for the American screen, he revealed that he is working with the screenwriter Mario Segade. “I want to do fiction again and for the first time, act, in an eight-part black romantic comedy about two separated guys, one in his 60s and one in his 50s. She is an idea that we also prepared for Amazon. We have been approving the books. Meanwhile, I already started taking theater classes. We hope to have the idea and scripts finished by the end of the year, ”she confessed.
Meanwhile, it is known that Marcelo’s weakness is his five children. When the journalist asked him to define them one by one, the driver was forceful in his response. “Micaela: The 1, the orderly one, the one who always banked, the madrassa of all. She even gives me advice. Cande: Mimosa since she was little. Absolute sensitivity. sticky In many ways similar to me. Francisco is hypersensitive, too. And one of the smartest, brightest guys I know. Where he wants to go depends only on him. He wears the world. Juana is overwhelming, she is Buzz Lightyear, to infinity and beyond… I believe in God and in a higher energy, which is love, and I see it represented in my five children.
Then came the turn to talk about his sentimental present. In this regard, Tinelli admitted that she is alone. “I feel that it is a moment of my life to enjoy. I walked many years as a couple. I love it, but I learned to be fine like this, as I am now. I don’t know if I’m alone either: I’m with my friends, I share more time with my children. And when I am physically alone, I feel accompanied by… you will think ‘how stupid is that!, but I feel accompanied by the moon, by gin and tonic or soda with which I start to see the planes landing and taking off from Aeroparque. It would be a half-idiotic phrase to point out that I’m in a relationship with myself, but today I prioritize myself before a link. Around tomorrow I fall madly in love again, I don’t know. The reality is that today I feel good like this, ”she acknowledged.
When it comes to commenting on the current situation in the country, Marcelo is moved by the reaction of the people. “What saves me in these difficult times is the tolerance of the people, how those who go out to work at 6AM love Argentina, those who put it in despite the incredible annual inflation, insecurity and the things we always criticize. We have to find the exit ourselves. The country is a picture that we must paint together every day with a lot of attitudes and actions. When I hear ‘is that this country…’ ‘Okay, and what do you do to improve it?’ We have to put an end to this asshole crack that has been installed since the two thousandth and peak of the end of the De la Rúa government: what if you are from one side or the other, I whore you and recontra whore on one side and the other. Regardless of who governs, we deserve representatives who establish, I am not telling you one hundred, fifty points, but twenty, fifteen that are respected and not touched, regardless of the person and the party that assumes, ”he answered bluntly.
Before concluding the interview, the driver spoke of the passage of time. “I can’t imagine getting oldalthough it is the law of life”. As a result of this, she remembered an event that happened to her recently and that makes her emotional when she tells it. “During 2000 or so it occurred to me to exhume the body of my old man, who was buried in Bolívar. We carried out the procedures, I connected with the director of the cemetery and we talked. ‘I don’t know if you’re going to want to come to the transfer, but when you can I’d like you to come, I want to give you something’, he surprised me. I went, doubtful of the reason, and held out a Ziploc baggie. ‘Take it, it was in your old man’s drawer’, he handed me his ring. I had kept absolutely nothing from dad. What happiness invaded me! However, one day I lost sight of it and couldn’t find it anywhere. Until a few months ago he appeared at the bottom of a box, surrounded by papers and inside the Ziploc… ”, he recounted moved.
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