I didn’t plan to be where I am, says Serginho Groisman, who is 75 years old and 35 TV

He could have followed an academic career as a university professor. Or lawyer, if I had not given up on the course after one year. Perhaps filmmaker, I wish it was not forward because there were not enough people to create a class.

This is how the universe conspired for Serginho Groisman to become a presenter. The journalist, who this Sunday (29) celebrates 75, built a solid career on TV, where he has been working for over three decades. “I never planned to be where I am, but it happened,” he says to F5.

Serginho knows its importance for Brazilian television, and talks about it without pride. “I never take stock of my career, because things are still happening. But remembering everything I have done, I contributed somehow to TV,” says the presenter of Altas Horas (Globo).

Before fame, in the 1970s, he also acted as producer of MPB big name shows. For Serginho, much of the success he makes – and, consequently, the good audience that yields – has to do with his charisma and the empathy of the audience that watches him.

“So far, age has not been impeding to me. It’s not that I try to be young, in fact, I never wanted to be the protagonist of my programs. I never put makeup because I prefer so that the people who find me don’t get scared. Only Globo thing I wear are the shirts, the pants are always the same,” he says. This is one of the curiosities about the presenter, listed by himself to F5.

The naturalness to which he talks to the viewer is also pointed out by him as a trump card so that, rare things, haters are practically nonexistent on his social networks. “At the time I was a university teacher, I worried about the democratization of the media. At TV Cultura [no programa Matéria Prima, em 1990] I built a 360 degree scenario in which no one was in the center. The light was the same for everyone. And I follow this to this day. I don’t realize anyone who has hatred of me. “

Corinthian fanatic and worshiper of movies and series – regards especially when his son, Thomas, and his wife, Fernanda, are sleeping – Serginho reveals two dream guests for their high hours, who this year celebrates 25 seasons: Roberto Carlos and Chico Buarque.

And he adds that he thinks, yes, to change and reinvent the program even after so much time in the air. By the end of the year, some successful paintings will be revisited, such as “The Producer”, and some people who have already participated in the audience will return to the attraction. He says he will also continue to promote unusual musical partnerships on stage, as country artists with rock. “It is not true that in a team that is winning it does not move. If it moves, mixes and transforms.”

In addition to the high hours, Groisman says he talks to Globo about two other projects outside the studio, but can not count more details yet.

“I don’t even know what retirement is. There is a caricature of you lying down, looking at the sea, but this scenario, for me, is out of what I want. Of course continuity has to do with acceptance of those who watch you. As people like what I do and I get pleasure, let’s go.”