the Good evening ladies they were television announcers for the Rai and Mediaset networks. Considered real family friends, these women have become in the collective imagination like friends next door to the point that housewives, busy with cooking and services, called them by name. Among them were: Nicoletta Orsomando, Paola Perissi, Mariolina Cannuli, Aba Cercato, Rosanna Vaudetti, Maria Giovanna Elmi, Gabriella Farinon, Roberta Giusti, Marina Morgan, Alessandra Canale. Without a doubt, the good evening ladies have marked the history of Italian costume and television, also becoming true style icons.
How can we forget the housewives’ comments on seeing Emanuela’s pearls or Orsomando’s shirts. We can say that the good evening young ladies were the influencers of the 70s, 80s and 90s dictating fashion and changing the world of TV forever, but also the figure of women. Not just simple television announcers, but undisputed protagonists of the small screen and magazines of the time. Their nickname is due to their customary greeting that has remained etched in the minds of millions of people: “ladies and gentlemen, good evening”.
Miss Good evening deceased? Death of Nicoletta Orsomando, Anna Maria Gambineri and …
Among the good evening ladies we remember: Nicoletta Orsomando, Marisa Borroni and Maria Teresa Ruta just to name a few. However, the list is still very long: from Adriana Serra to Mariolina Cannuli, from Brunella Tocci to Marina Morgan, from Elisa Silvestrin to Federica Panicucci. It goes without saying that the most beloved of all has always been her: Nicoletta Orsomando who passed away on 21 August 2021 at the age of 92. A death that shook the entire television audience and beyond, since Orsomando was loved by everyone.
Just last January some young ladies had reached her good evening to celebrate and celebrate her 92nd birthday. A beautiful souvenir photo that saw the celebrated Nicoletta surrounded by the love of her friends and colleagues Gabriella Farinon, Paola Perissi, Rosanna Vaudetti, Maria Giovanna Elmi, Aba Cercato. Among the various records of the Orsomando there is also the reading of the news, which however ended shortly after. The reason? “After some time she was relieved of her post because she had no political nudge. So said, in no uncertain terms, the then director of Tg1 ”. Orsomando is not the only one of the best known Good Evening Misses to have left us: also Anna Maria Gambineri, blonde “Miss Good Evening” of Rai, died in May 2017. We also remember Roberta Giusti, died in 1986; it’s still Beatrice Cori, died in 2000.
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