If there is a place that Queen Volpato He likes to be outside his bubble. With such diverse experiences on open television channels and also on the internet, the presenter has the rare talent of communicating with the most different types of audiences.
About to debut on Come closernew from SBT which arrives on March 11, the journalist is successful on networks such as TikTok, discussing the dilemmas of her followers in an irreverent way — she even earned the nickname “the greatest counselor on the internet”. Regina is also in the videocast O Amor na Influence, on Amazon, in which she gives relationship advice alongside the actor Gabriel Santana24 years old.
At 56 years old, Regina Volpato lives an intense connection with her home. There, she found the peace of living her much-desired solitude (Mayra Azzi / CLAUDIA)
“I talk to people, regardless of age, race, dress or anything. When I say my age on the podcast, people say, ‘Yeah? Our!’. Once communication is established, it doesn’t matter. It’s easy, I say it, the other person understands and responds. And so the conversation flows: whether at work, in personal life, on the podcast. I think that my curiosity and wanting to communicate means that these obstacles have no influence whatsoever.”
As soon as she opens the door to her apartment in the Alto de Pinheiros neighborhood, in São Paulo, she gives a wide smile and says: “They arrived on time, I was just finishing ironing!”
Alongside your inseparable four-legged companion, Agate, the journalist welcomes our team with the typical joy of someone who has the gift of making guests feel at ease. Extremely organized, she shows some looks she selected for this editorial, including some reserved for her debut on SBT.
Details of the arrangements spread throughout the house and Ágata, the faithful companion of presenter Regina Volpato (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
Despite the concern with the outfit in the photos, the artist has no attachment to a so-called impeccable look: “When people see me in stories disheveled, sweaty, with my bra strap showing, they think: ‘Ah, her too!’. In the imagination there is a fantasy that we live like this [aponta para o rosto maquiado]. Because today I got up early to wash the yard, clean up Ágata’s poop… So, we end up behaving in every situation like a normal person, because I’m not in the bubble. And if it’s up to me, I’ll never stay. I don’t want”.
Continues after the advertisement Regina Volpato shows the details of the decoration of her home in São Paulo (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
For five years, Regina was in charge of the Mulheres program, on TV Gazeta, a position she held until July last year. Her departure caused a stir on social media, and she soon became one of the most talked about topics on Twitter: the public wanted her on Globo’s mornings. With many broadcasters keeping an eye on her work, the quickest was that of Silvio Santos, who invited her to be alongside the journalist Michelle Barros it’s from Paulo Mathias.
The new morning attraction promises to bring debates, news and variety. This is Regina’s second stint at SBT. Between 2004 and 2008, she commanded the first phase of Casos de Família, where she gave a milder and more conciliatory tone to the program.
“I’m very excited, because I have no doubt that I’m going to have fun. I haven’t gotten nervous yet, maybe I will. For now, I’m enjoying all this new stuff”, he explains about the program’s premiere.
Details of presenter Regina Volpato’s kitchen, in São Paulo (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
“Sometimes people associate home with status. My house is nice, but I don’t think it’s a house that anyone would be afraid to sit in.”
Regina Volpato, presenter
Her professional career has always been one of the priorities in the presenter’s life, and it was because of her work that she ended up in the space she now considers her home. In 2006, she moved out of a small apartment she had just paid off to be closer to her job.
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“I had money and I wanted space, sun and for my daughter to grow up in a place she could enjoy. As soon as I entered, I liked the kitchen with a table, which allows circulation, and the possibility of having a backyard. Of all the houses I’ve had in my life, this is my house.”
Details of the coffee table in the living room by Regina Volpato (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
For Regina, the important thing is to enjoy the moments that housing can offer, much more than keeping up appearances. “There was a time when we were dragging the furniture from the living room and someone, carrying the sofa with me, said: ‘When the lady of the house arrives…’, and I said: ‘I’m the lady of the house’. He asked if I would let him, and I said I loved it, because people leave, but the joy of the party remains,” she recalls about the habit of throwing big parties at home.
The apartment located in the Alto de Pinheiros neighborhood, in São Paulo, has the feel of a home, with a garden and backyard (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
To understand her relationship with her home, just look at the hundreds of plants and flowers that color her garden: it is Regina who takes care of each one of them. “Once a year a gardener comes to add more soil, but I don’t like him doing anything, because I take care of it and I know where each one is.”
The orchids come from pots that Regina receives as a gift — none are discarded, they are all hanging in the garden. The jabuticabeira, full of fruits, arrived at the beginning and grew together with his daughter, Rafaela: “They were two little girls, there’s even a portrait of them together.”
Details of Regina Volpato’s garden (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
It is in the satisfaction of taking care of details that she is motivated to carry out so many tasks in her refuge. Regina makes a point of aligning the glasses in the cupboard, adjusting the books on the coffee table and, above all, planning improvements.
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In fact, she loves a renovation, especially at times when she needs to shake up her life. If she has someone to change her hair when she needs a transformation, Regina looks for a “break-in”.
The house’s renovations, all carried out by friend and architect Nelson Kabarite, reflect the new phases of the presenter’s life. The dressing room (in the detail above) was the most recent transformation: the cabinets and drawers house her many clothes and accessories in an organized way (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
“It’s not premeditated, but it ends up happening. It’s funny, it was when I finished this current renovation that things started to happen… Those who like Feng Shui say that it has an energy, that when you move it, it shakes everything! And you can’t help but believe it. For me, it’s very important to leave work and have a nice place to go.”
If on the one hand the journalist loves the adventures of a work, her relationship with the decoration It’s practice. Mining and objects of desire are not part of his routine, which is much more guided by experiences than by materiality.
“I don’t travel to buy anything. I travel to meet, see people, eat local food. If something catches my attention I bring it, but I’m not one of those people who wants to hug a vase. I am very practical and I value money. I know there are pieces that are valuable for history, but I don’t feel invested in a vase that, if it falls, will break. I prefer to invest in more permanent things, like wallpaper or carpentry.”
Among the details in Regina’s room are the spoon that was a gift from a chef, the bunch brought from Bahia and the Stand By coat rack (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
One of the few souvenirs he carried with him in his suitcase was a bunch brought from Bahia, one of his favorite destinations. The signed pieces that enchant her highlight their usefulness combined with aesthetics.
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The Stand By coat rack, a piece by Claudia Moreira Salles, is one of her favorites. Generally with a tripod-shaped base, this model supports a column from which arms and hooks emerge. Another example, also of national design, is the Tetê Armchair, by Sergio Rodrigues.
The piece was one of the resident’s few great design wishes. “Sometimes people associate home with status. My house is nice because I like it, but I don’t think it’s a house that people are afraid to sit in.”
Details of the living room in Regina Volpato’s house (Mayra Azzi/CLAUDIA)
“Living alone was an achievement. I find the peace of sometimes not hearing anything very pleasant.”
Regina Volpato, presenter
By interfering and taking so much care over the details, Regina ends up seeing herself in every corner of the room. And it is when she returns from an exhausting day that she is most enchanted by the space — especially the feeling of no one waiting for her, except Ágata.
“Living alone was an achievement, it’s a joy. Some women feel that emptiness when their children leave home. When my daughter left, her room became a dressing room, it’s another phase of my life and with other needs. Everything was redefined. The backyard was where she stayed with her friends, I occupied that space for another purpose. When I get home from a trip, I go to see where each plant is. I find the peace of sometimes not hearing anything very pleasant.”
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Production credits:
Text Marina Marques
Photo Mayra Azzi
Catarina Moura Art Edition
Styling Mariana Gama
Beauty Eri Nascimento
Arrangements Roberto Rabello