Marco Columbro: “Because I no longer want to do television”

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The conductor, beloved especially in the 80s and 90s, tells his colleague Lorella Cuccarini, revealing the reasons behind his retirement from the scene

It’s been so many years now that Marco Columbro, among the most beloved Italian presenters and actors between the 80s and 90s, is far from the scene. But what is the reason behind this absence from the limelight? This was told by the person concerned, in a recent interview granted to the historic friend and colleague Lorella Cuccariniin the frame of the Youtube format “A coffee with”.

Marco Columbro, forced to stop in 2001 due to a brain aneurysm, has long been one of the points of reference for Italian viewers, especially on Mediaset. In the network of the “Biscione”, Columbro had led for a long time Have a nice Sundayright alongside Lorella Cuccarini, but had also starred in cult fiction Dear Master.

The disease could therefore have radically changed Columbro’s approach to life and priorities, who thus began a very different artistic but above all personal path. For a few more years, after having recovered from the serious health problem, the presenter returns to television, again alongside Cuccarini, with We bet that… ?. Then nothing more, for years, at least on the small screen.

Marco Columbro has long dedicated himself to the activity of theatrical actorin the meantime taking an interest in issues such as philosophy and spiritual themes. Sometimes her face has peeped out on television with fleeting guests, but nothing to do with the glories of the past. The reasons behind this choice Columbro explained in detail to the colleague that she had been close to him for so long. When Cuccarini asked what kind of role Columbro would have preferred for his ideal return to TV, the Tuscan presenter replied:

“Any role is fine for me, even dramatic roles. I’m not afraid to measure myself. The problem is that I no longer want to make television, if I have to say so. I want to do other things. I wrote a book that should come out at the end of the year called “Parsifal’s awakening: living a life in the flock as a sheep, or as conscious beings”. It comes from the meeting in the last 40 years that I have had with the various teachers of wisdom that I have had in life. The theme is awareness in every field of our existence. How to face life with awareness. For me, writing about these topics is the thing that interests me most right now. Or even open a spiritual research academy. […] I should completely change the note, on another level, it could be the thing that interests me the most now, more than making a show. What I did in the show, I did, it is useless to redo things I have already done. It would be a repeat. That’s enough. This is a page of my destiny that has closed. However, I have left a good memory in people’s hearts, I see it in the people on the street who stop me, and this makes me happy. It is not a simple thing. This thing will remain here, a page has been made for me, now there will be another. “

In the chat with Lorella Cuccarini, Marco Columbro also revealed a detail about their relationship that has remained unpublished so far. The host revealed that he felt somehow “Betrayed” when in 1991 Cuccarini married her Silvio Testi. At the time, the harmony between the two was such that the public was convinced that the presenters of Buona Domenica were together. Vain hopes, in light of the facts.

Marco Columbro: “Because I no longer want to do television”