Italian weekly gossip magazine
Chi announced Tuesday that its edition hitting newsstands
Wednesday will feature a story confirming that Maria De Filippi
will co-host this year's Sanremo Music Festival with festival
host and artistic director Carlo Conti.
The announcement, coming one day before a scheduled press
conference by state broadcaster RAI, which will air the festival
across five evenings from February 7-11, prompted a tweet by
RAI's Sanremo consultant Giancarlo Leone: "The Maria De Filippi
interview in Chi is fake".
Chi editor Alfonso Signorini told ANSA he stands by the
story.
"We never talked about an interview (with De Filippi),"
Signorini said.
"I know how the game works - before the press conference, RAI
wants strict confidentiality," he said.
"If Conti, Leone and RAI are upset for the timing with which
I scooped tomorrow's conference, I remind them that I'm a
magazine editor and I'm paid to do my job and sell my product.
If I hadn't done it, I wouldn't be a good editor".
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