Silvia Abravanel: ‘I really have a strong genius’, says Silvio Santos’ most controversial daughter

Daughter number 2 of Silvio Santos, Silvia Abravanel says she inherited, albeit in a non-biological way, many traits of her father’s personality – including the talent to communicate. Presenter at the family broadcaster, where she started as an “intern intern”, she says that nothing came easy, in her career or in life. With a reputation for being temperamental, Silvia does not deny that she has a “strong personality” and says she chooses to always speak the truth, as in the recent interview in which she spoke about the disagreements between the Abravanels. in conversation with F5, she talks about the relationships between the sisters, the initial shock when she learned that she was adopted and the controversies in which she got involved. “I don’t pretend to be a little angel and then turn into a dragon. I’m real.”

You recently said that your family is not perfect. Why did you say that?

What real family is a margarine family? Not even Queen Elizabeth’s family! Everyone has problems, arguments, confusions, perrengues, but everyone comes together, talks. We are not magazine covers every day! We are a normal family. We’re not that pink bow family and if anyone says that, they’re lying. Sorry.

Does the reputation of being a difficult person bother you?

Look, at the beginning of any relationship, be it professional or romantic, I say that I have a strong personality. I have a temper, yes, I’m an Aryan, I’m eight or eighty. Either I love it too much or I hate it too much. I know I have to ponder a little because not everyone can keep up with me. But for me it either is or it isn’t. The more or less already drives me crazy. These comments don’t shock me. I don’t pretend to be a little angel and then turn into a dragon (laughs). I’m real.

How was the beginning of your work with your father?

I was 16 years old and I was an intern at the intern (laughs). I was supervised by an intern and I did a little bit of everything at SBT. He inspected the auditorium’s bathrooms, distributed snacks, checked the caravan personnel. I stuck to people to know everything, I wanted to learn, and my father encouraged me. But that’s what I was: less than an intern.

When did you realize you had a talent for working with television? Did you feel afraid?

Fear? I was terrified when they put me to present the program Bom dia & Cia [comandou a atração nos últimos sete anos]. It would be 15 days just for the presentation and I had to say every day that that program was for the children to come back the next day. The direction made me official running the program and there I discovered that I had the gift just like my father.

Do you want to present another type of program?

I have the idea of ​​making a game program. Messing with this younger audience. To create something really cool and for people to be those characters they’re playing and, of course, getting prizes.

Have you ever asked your father for a raise?

I asked. It was once during the Press Trophy because he gave me the hook by asking a question and I went there and asked. ‘I want a raise’ and then he asked how much I earned. I remember that it had come out at the time when the president of Brazil was earning R$8,000, and I replied that I was earning the same and nothing happened. The following year I asked again and he gave me a raise. He gave it to me and Rebeca. We were presenters but we earned as producers.

His father has already been criticized for his opinions, considered prejudiced and even homophobic.

Television, the artistic medium in general, has always been a free territory. A territory for gays, transvestites, and my dad always treated everyone with respect, and he taught us that. The thing is, my dad doesn’t have a filter. He is spontaneous and whatever he says, many people already take him to another side, which in fact was not that.

You and your sisters talk to him, guide him…

My God in Heaven… How are you going to talk to a man over 90 to stop talking or control himself? (laughs). It’s difficult.

Politics is now ingrained in the family: his brother-in-law, Fábio Faria, is Jair Bolsonaro’s Minister of Communications. What do you think of the government? Who will you vote for?

I don’t know much about politics and I don’t talk about it. People change their opinion all the time, there are polarizations and discussions. I don’t like this atmosphere of hostility, aggression. I have my candidate, my positioning, but it’s kept for me. I don’t take a stand publicly.

Do you have a thing for country people? Her ex-husband and current boyfriend are singers.

But I had a relationship in between (laughs). I dated a cop and even got engaged, but it didn’t work out. Gustavo happened [Moura, da dupla com Rafael], being from the country side, because in fact I walk in the artistic environment and this natural approximation ends up happening. We’re fine, thank you.

Does it bother you to be called daughter number 2?

Anything. It makes it easy for everyone because there are five of us and it was a hell of a mess at home with the names. Mine always got mixed up and I always liked that number 2 thing.

Which of the sisters do you get along best with?

Rebeca. I get along with everyone, but she is my friend and my confidant.

And is there one you fight with more often?

We don’t fight, but we have strong personalities and then things get hot: Patricia.

Silvia Abravanel by Silvia Abravanel:

sincere. I suffer from sincericide and I don’t wear a mask. No one is surprised by me and my dad laughs at this because he is like that too. I’m very similar to him, the way and the personality. I think it has to do with a more direct relationship, because I work with him from an early age. I created this bond of friend, confidant, partner and he is everything to me.

Did you always know you were adopted?

Since the age of four. My sister [Cíntia] said I was adopted, and in my head it was like a terrible disease. When I found out I wasn’t sick, I was super happy and relieved. I was and am a daughter of the heart, and that’s all right. I have always been very grateful and proud. Father and mother are the ones who create and I always had everything. I never felt a difference.

Did you meet your birth mother?

I didn’t meet her, but I’m very grateful to her, who had two options: take me away or have me. She had me, she gave me the gift of life. My life is just gratitude.