The qui qua qua dance by Fiorello, John Travolta and Amadeus
Sanremo: U-Power, strangers to Rai agreement with John Travolta
“With reference to John Travolta’s participation in the Sanremo Festival, U-Power specifies that the actor, as is known, has been the company’s testimonial since the summer of 2023. Participation in the Sanremo Festival is the result of an agreement between Rai and the plaintiff of which U-Power is in no way a party to the proceedings. Regarding the contents of the performance, they are a matter of exclusive competence of the artistic direction of the Sanremo festival”. This is what a note from the company specifies following the controversy that erupted over the shoes worn by the actor on Wednesday evening during his participation in the Festival.
John Travolta does not sign the release for the “Ballo del qua qua” at Sanremo 2024: “We will never see him on TV again”
John Travolta trying his hand at the “Qua qua” dance with Fiorello and Amadeus, during the second episode of the Sanremo Festival it was one of the most discussed moments on social media. And his performance will never be broadcast on TV again.
In fact, according to what Eleonora Daniele explained to Storie Italiane, John Travolta did not sign the release for the use of those images.
Fiorello and the qua qua qua dance with John Travolta: “The gag came out badly, but…”
“Do we want to address the topic immediately or don’t we address it at all?”: Fiorello says to Viva Rai2 immediately after the live broadcast of the second evening of the Sanremo Festival. The reference is to the ‘dance of the qua qua’ with John Travolta which unleashed the social public. “We made one of the most terrifying gags in the history of Italian television. You don’t know, because you weren’t there, you were busy saying ‘Code 01’. While he says ‘Code 01’, I take the insults. You are there and I take the insults”, says the Sicilian showman speaking with Amadeus sitting next to him. The artistic director of the Festival comments: “But it was a nice, fun thing”.
“While I was doing it, I had already foreseen everything. I was already thinking: ‘This is the end of our careers’. Travolta’s certainly, but more so ours because people say it was us”, continues Fiorello, responding to the criticisms with his usual self-irony.
And he tells how it went: “We wanted to do something ironic, but when I went into the dressing room I already understood the hint. I asked John Travolta if he wanted to do the Qua Qua dance and he asked me: “What And?”. I explained to him that it’s ironic: “You always do cool things and we make you do shit.” And he didn’t say no, he said yes. She was born like this. There are people who were angry as if we had killed someone, with all due respect we are not there yet. It was a bad gag, okay.”
Sanremo 2024, 200,000 euros for John Travolta
Two hundred thousand euros for John Travolta. According to what beraking latest news has learned, this is the amount paid to the American actor for his participation in the second evening of Sanremo 2024. The little scene with Travolta, involved first in a tutorial of his iconic cinematographic dances for Amadeus and then outside the Ariston theater in a ‘Qua Qua Dance’ with Fiorello and the artistic director of the festival which sparked jokes on the internet, lasted a little longer a quarter of an hour. And the fee paid by Rai would be approximately 200,000 euros. The figure, according to sources consulted by beraking latest news, does not include the travel expenses that would have been incurred in the competition, as the actor reached Nice with his private plane and was in the area for an engagement with a sponsor.