"My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost ten years, ends here". Italy woke up this morning to a message on social media from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in which she announced the end of her relationship with the 42-year-old Milanese journalist. "I thank him," Meloni wrote, "for the wonderful years we spent together, for the difficulties we went through, and for giving me the most important thing in my life, which is our daughter Ginevra. Our paths have long since parted, and the time has come to take note". The announcement comes close on the heels of some off-air footage shown by the satirical news program "Striscia la notizia" that features Giambruno himself as the protagonist of advances to young female colleagues and macho gestures and language. "I will defend," Meloni said again, "what we have been, I will defend our friendship, and I will defend, at any cost, a seven-year-old girl who loves her mother and loves her father as I could not love mine. I have nothing more to say about this". The airing of the footage starring Giambruno has sparked several speculations because it came on a Berlusconi family-owned broadcaster. While some speak of a move to target the Prime Minister, there are others thinking of a blow dealt precisely to the journalist now her former partner, seen as "placed" by Meloni on Rete4, a broadcaster in the Mediaset universe. "All those who hoped to weaken me by hitting me at home should know that no matter how much the drop may hope to dig the stone, the stone remains stone and the drop is only water," the Prime Minister concluded.
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