Toti Ciliberto accepted the invitation of Florence Pena and was interviewed by her in LPA (America, Monday to Friday at 10pm). There, in addition to reviewing her career, she recalled the day when he nearly died atop an airplane when I was on my way to Tucumán together with Marcello Tinelli.

“Is it true that you traveled on a plane without a propeller? Is it true?”, asked the presenter in the “Las rapiditas” section, a ping pong of questions and answers that she usually performs every evening in her program. Then, after shaking his head to one side, as if regretting the episode by remembering it, He was willing to tell what happened.

“Yes, we had to go to Tucumán with Marcelo (Tinelli) on a trip…”, he began to explain, but Chino D’Angelo, speaker of the América cycle and another of the historical figures of Show matchshe interrupted him. “They were all there, there were several upstairs,” she told her. “Yup, there were several upstairs. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, I was there, Ale Stoessel, Marcelo”began listing the humorist.

And he continued: “We were supposed to travel to Tucumán, a real jet that was supposed to arrive never arrived, e we got on a plane, like a jacket from Top Gun el chabón (from the pilot), propeller, the plane came out and… I was with a Saint George that I embraced him”.

Then, Ciliberto explained that he “looked out the window” and saw how the flight system was failing and, in turn, heard strange noises. “Marcelo said, ‘What’s going on?’ and the pilot told him: ‘Nothing, we have to go back to the Aeroparque because the magnet…’. So we asked him what the magnet was and he told us that was what gave the motor current,” she recalled.

According to the comedian, everyone asked him to get off at San Fernando, which was closer, but the pilot told them that for “better security” they had to go to a bigger airport.

“I went and I was listening, really: ‘Look out, look out, first clue, emergency, emergency, first clue. Horrible”explained how to understand the magnitude of what he experienced with his classmates video match (That was the cycle name when it was on Telefe) at the time.

“Were you afraid?”Florencia Peña asked, incredulous and almost unable to say anything else. “Yes,” she replied immediately. And she added: “The plane lay like that, patted itself, it was a small plane. When planned, the other engine stalled. I said at the time we were going with Duhalde’s pilot, a guy who also did flight hours and was good, and they got away with it.”

“We got off and had to get on another smaller plane because we had to go to Tucumán to do the program. We were messed up. terrified. it was bad“Ciliberto concluded with his anecdote.

Toti Ciliberto, member of the golden era of the “Videomatch”

Toti Ciliberto, recently lost 25 kilos and famous for his feat, was one of the historical members of video matchthe humorous cycle that Marcelo Tinelli conducted in the Telefe evenings.

His specialty was jokes, but he also characterized an unforgettable character: the gaucho Martín Fierro. Dressed and painted entirely in gold (because of the color of the award statuette that bears that name), Ciliberto made an entire generation laugh with his performance.

From 1992 to 2000, when he stopped being part of the cycle, he shared the program with, among others, José María Listorti, Fredy Villarreal, Pachu Peña, Pablo Granados and Larry de Clay, who got married in October of this year and was present at the Marriage.

However, although that was a moment of resounding success at work, Ciliberto perhaps also lived in those years the darkest phase of his life, that of drug addiction. “Marcelo Tinelli helped me,” he revealed last year in a raw and emotional interview with Gastón Pauls.

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