Interesting anecdote, that of Valeria Graci a It’s Always Midday: a full-blown “jab” directed at Laura Pausini and Federica Panicucci. It all started from a question Antonella Clericithe host of the cooking show, to which Graci replied with her typical irony. To date, she has admitted that she no longer imitates either the artist or the presenter: in the past she had already expressed her opinion on her imitation of Panicucci.
Valeria Graci, the truth about the imitations of Laura Pausini and Federica Panicucci
“You imitate Federica Panicucci and Laura Pausini very welldid they have a lot of fun?”, perhaps Antonella Clerici would never have imagined the response of the actress and imitator Valeria Graci, guest at It’s Always Midday in the February 9 episode. The reply was very clear, although accompanied by moments of relaxation. “Yes, they had a lot of fun; they had so much fun that at one point I had to stop to imitate.”
Clerici is not known for lending herself to any controversy, and decided to cut it short, without investigating further: “Really?! But it’s funny, no one imitates me.” For Graci, however, the presenter would not be a person to “imitate”. “Now I’ll take care of it. Can I say something? You are not to be imitatedyou don’t have any things that are particularly…understood?”.
The statements about Federica Panicucci
Valeria Graci is among the best actresses and imitators: her talent has led her, over the course of her career, to imitate numerous television characters, linked to music or entertainment, from Barbara D’Urso to Laura Pausini, up to Federica Panicucci. Several times, he spoke about Panicucci’s alleged reaction to his imitation (the presenter has never publicly exposed herself on the subject), as in 2021 at Every Morning by Adriana Volpe. “Not everyone has the gift of irony or self-deprecation. Federica evidently didn’t appreciate it. So they say, in reality he never made a phone call to me, but when they don’t say anything you can see that they didn’t appreciate it.”
But the issue began well before, in 2018, when she addressed the situation during an interview: “She never liked imitation, but he never stated it publicly. He did it privately, but not to me. There was no approach, I know for a fact that I will never go as a guest Morning Fiveat least as long as she leads him. But that’s okay, God forbid.”
Graci had also told how the imitation itself was born: “There was the television turned on during the trick as often happens and there was Morning Fiveand I continued to make fun of Federica, and it made her laugh make-up artists. So I said to my author ‘What do you think of Federica Panicucci as a character?’, and he said ‘Let’s try it’. Then I didn’t think about it anymore.” She has always enjoyed playing different characters: “I’m an actress, an interpreter, I like it grasp the nuances of a character and take them to extremesobviously Federica doesn’t speak like that, she’s more serious”. Something, however, has evidently gone wrong, and today the imitations of Panicucci and Pausini are just a distant (and sometimes controversial) memory.
date:2026-02-10 11:48:00