Codacons against Mara Maionchi: “Rai should remove her from hosting Eurovision”
The association for the protection of consumer rights asks public television to intervene after the controversy with Tiziano Ferro
Rai must remove Mara Maionchi with immediate effect from hosting the Italian edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Codacons asked for it, after today’s statements from Maionchi herself
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during the press conference to present the event, and the news that appeared in the mass media in the last few hours about the pressure put on Tiziano Ferro by the record producer at the time of their artistic collaboration. Today’s statements by Maionchi regarding the weight and physical appearance of the artists, as reported by the mass media in the last few hours, appear completely uneducational and potentially dangerous – explains Codacons – The record company, in fact, would have declared that “ the show has some needs, even if it is not obligatory. But it helps to be thinner, it’s important, not basic”, a phrase that seems to argue that thin singers would have a better chance of success than those who have a few extra kilos. A wrong message, which arrives despite attempts from many quarters to overcome hateful stereotypes on physical appearance in the world of entertainment, stereotypes capable of influencing younger people by dangerously altering their behavior and life choices, concludes Codacons.