Amanda Lear used her guest turn on Belve to take aim at Cristiano Malgioglio, calling him “un tipo strano, un po’ invadente” and saying he sometimes starts talking and “parlare, parlare, parlare.”
The exchange landed hard because it touched a relationship that had already been cooling for some time. Lear also recalled that Malgioglio had written Cocktail d’amore and Ho fatto l’amore con me for her, adding that she had not realized the second song was about autoeroticism: “Non avevo capito che parlasse di autoerotismo, pensavo fosse una canzone d’amore.” She called the song “un po’ scandaloso.”
That public remark was the part that appears to have cut deepest. According to Oggi, Malgioglio said, “Non mi aspettavo che tradisse la nostra amicizia pubblicamente,” and the report said he felt very offended by the comments made on television.
The fallout is rooted in a friendship that was once built on collaboration and artistic complicity. Lear and Malgioglio had known each other for years, but the relationship had already cooled before the Belve episode aired. What changed was the setting: a blunt exchange on public television, where private disappointment became part of the broadcast.
For now, the rupture looks more like an ending than a passing spat. If the friendship had been fading in private, Lear’s remarks on Belve appear to have made that break visible to everyone.
